DISC Resources for Business Owners.
Discover a powerful, proven framework for understanding yourself and others, and improve your communication, influence, and leadership skills.
Get Your DISC Assessment Report
Complete our quick DISC assessment to discover your behavioural style, communication preferences and practical insights for working more effectively with others.
Online DISC Assessment
Request your online assessment and discover how to hone your leadership and communication skills with the people around you.
DISC Resources for Business Owners
Download the DISC resources below, designed to help business owners become more effective and make better leadership decisions.
DISC Leadership Workbook
A Practical Guide to Applying Behavioural Style in Your Team, Business and Life
The four DISC Types - Summary Page
A quick one-page look at the strengths and limitations of the four DISC behaviour types
How to be More Effective with DISC
A reference guide for how to be more effective every day with D, I, S and C types.
A Different Kind of Advisory Relationship
Valentum does not begin with a generic program or predetermined solution.
We begin by understanding your business, your role as owner, your vision and the decisions that matter most.
Every potential partnership starts with a genuine conversation about where you are now, what you want to achieve and the kind of support that will make the greatest difference.
From there, we determine the right path forward together, with clear expectations, agreed priorities and a shared focus on meaningful results.
The Diagnostic
Every potential partnership begins with a complimentary half-day diagnostic, conducted in person where possible. This is an opportunity to look closely at the business, understand what the owner is working towards and determine whether there is a genuine fit on both sides. It is not a sales meeting. It is a mutual assessment.
Design the Partnership
If the fit is right, the engagement is designed together. We agree on the priorities, expectations, structure and the performance measures that will define success, including the relevant financial KPIs. Nothing begins until both sides are clear about what the partnership is intended to achieve.
Work Alongside the Business
Valentum becomes an active advisory partner in the business. The relationship is ongoing, with regular contact, practical strategic input and accountability focused on strengthening performance, leadership and long-term business value. The objective is not to advise from the sidelines. It is to contribute meaningfully to better business outcomes.
Review, Measure and Recalibrate
Each quarter, the advisor and business owner sit down to review the financials, assess agreed KPIs and consider what needs to happen next. Performance is measured against the outcomes agreed at the outset, priorities are recalibrated and the next quarter is approached with clarity. This quarterly review provides the discipline and accountability that keeps the partnership focused on results.
Brendan Ellis
Brendan Ellis brings more than 30 years of experience across diverse industries, businesses and commercial environments to his work as a business advisor.
Valentum Partners is the culmination of decades spent working with business owners, leaders and people.
His broad experience allows him to step into a business, look beyond the obvious symptoms and identify where change can have the greatest impact. He is naturally curious, practical and multi-disciplined, with the ability to see connections across strategy, people, operations, planning and performance.
Brendan does not believe in applying the same formula to every business. He takes the time to understand the owner, the team, the challenges they are facing and what they genuinely want from the business they are building.
For Brendan, business success is not only measured by growth or profitability. A good business should also support the health, happiness, freedom and sense of purpose of the person who owns it.
That belief has shaped his lifelong interest in wellbeing, human performance and better ways of working and living.
Brendan brings experienced eyes, a broad toolkit and an outside perspective to help business owners make clearer decisions, solve the right problems and create meaningful, sustainable change.
Brendan’s goal is simple: to help you build a better business and a better experience of owning it.