A young Australian entrepreneur and self-made millionaire presents a counterintuitive guide to succeeding in today's business world
To be unprofessional is not to be disrespectful. It is not to be reckless or lazy. It is not to be unpunctual, badly presented or poorly spoken.
To be unprofessional is to be real. It is to create a vision that is unborrowed from the past. It is to develop products that genuinely wow your audience. It is to think of marketing strategies that the management consultants don't have diagrams or buzz words for yet. It is to think original thoughts and speak of proactive ideas that haven't yet been documented in the academic playbooks.
At just 26 years old, Jack Delosa knows more than you'd expect about business and entrepreneurship. A self-made millionaire by 24, Delosa is an award-winning entrepreneur and educator who has built several start-ups into successful thriving businesses. In UnProfessional, Delosa reflects on his business adventures and offers practical how-to advice on topics such as becoming a market leader on a shoestring budget, becoming the go-to person in your industry to win more business faster, how to manage and lead other people toward your vision and why it's important to fail fast.
The business world has changed. What worked in the past will not work today. Offering a fresh perspective on the challenges of starting and running a successful business, UnProfessional is an ideal guide for Australia’s current crop of forward-thinking entrepreneurs of any age.
About the Author
Jack Delosa, author and Australia’s leading entrepreneur under 30, is the dynamic young Australian who went from a start-up business to a leader for future and existing entrepreneurs in just 8 years.
University dropout Jack Delosa fought the Goliath of conventional business and made his first million by the time he was 24. Now 26, he’s built several start-ups into thriving companies and become Australia’s most awarded entrepreneur under 30.
Jack has done it all by disregarding the old rules and by being professionally unprofessional.
Jack is now regarded as one of Australia’s leading entrepreneurs under 30, and is the author of the book, UnProfessional: How a 26-year-old university dropout became a self-made millionaire.
Today Jack’s focus is on educating and developing a new breed of entrepreneur through his two business education institutions, The Entourage and MBE Education, which have a combined membership base of 30,000 business owners, and climbing He has also contributed to the development of the curriculum at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa – educating entrepreneurs where they are needed most.
Jack’s specialised knowledge of business growth and performance for today’s world has been shared through consulting roles with Microsoft, Virgin and CPA. He is a spokesperson for entrepreneurship in Australia as a regular blogger for Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Start Up Smart, Dynamic Business Magazine and Australian Anthill. He has also been featured in BRW, Career One, and across Australian news and current affair television programs.
In 2013 Jack founded The Entourage Foundation which is igniting a generation of enterprising young people to drive Australia forward by delivering business education through high-schools nationally.
Jack is an engaging and thought provoking speaker who having had his company listed in the Fastest 50 Start-Ups in Australia, acquiring businesses with his panel of investors, and helping his clients raise over $10m, is a knowledgeable and experienced leader for future and existing entrepreneurs.
