CityLife Media Annual Business Retreat 2025
🥥The CityLife Annual Business Retreat is BACK!🥥
The 2025 CityLife Annual Business Retreat will be hosted at the 5 star, Crystalbrook Riley and we are thrilled to announce Daniel Flynn, Co-Founder of iconic brand ‘Thankyou’ as one of our special guest speakers along with Media Personality and Social Commentator Jane Caro AM.
These two highly acclaimed keynote speakers will lead a two day event dedicated to the business community of Far North Queensland with expert local presenters backing them up in key fields to help skyrocket your business success for the 2025-2026 financial year and beyond!
The Business Retreat is the perfect blend of restoration and relaxation to usher in a New Financial Year full of positivity and a refreshed focus for attendees, as well as time to strategically map out a solid plan of attack with the guidance of local experts to give your business the best opportunity for success in the 2025-2026 period.
📢 Meet Our Keynote Speakers! 📢
Daniel Flynn
Co-Founder of Thankyou | Entrepreneur | Author
In 2008 as just teenagers, Daniel Flynn and his mates Justine & Jarryd co-founded Thankyou to help bridge the gap between two of our world’s extremes; extreme poverty & extreme consumerism.
Thankyou became known for its breakthrough, viral consumer marketing campaigns — from flying helicopters over supermarket head offices to launching a pay-what-you-want book – ‘Chapter One’ to raise money to help the organisation expand, which became second only to the Harry Potter book launch in airport bookstores – but this was only the beginning of this innovative brand.
Thankyou was voted number 1 by Australian consumers as the most sustainable brand, placed ahead of Tesla in 2022 (Mumbrella, 2022). With over 35 disruptive, design-led and sustainable consumer products across the personal care and home cleaning categories, Thankyou has to date given $18.1M (AUD) to charities from products sold in Australia & New Zealand. After the proven success of the social enterprise business model, Thankyou is now launching across the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Jane Caro AM
Author | Entrepreneur | Social Commentator | Walkley Award Winning Journalist
Jane Caro AM is a Walkley award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, feminist, public education activist and social commentator. For 35 years she was a multi-award winning advertising copywriter. For 7 years she was an academic teaching Advertising Creative in the School of Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. In recent years she has become most well known for her media appearances and thought provoking books. When she isn’t writing novels, she is a full time columnist, speaker, MC and TV, radio and media commentator.
Jane Caro appears frequently on ABC Radio, The Drum, Sunrise & Weekend Sunrise. She created and presented 5 documentary series for ABC Compass, airing in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. She and Catherine Fox present a popular podcast with Podcast One, Austereo Women With Clout and she writes regular columns in Nine Newspapers and her opinion pieces appear regularly in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and The Big Smoke.
📢 INDUSTRY & BUSINESS EXPERTS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! 📢
🌴What You Can Look Forward To!🌴
This retreat will be intimate in size, action-packed, and RESULTS DRIVEN!
The CityLife Magazine team last hosted this event in 2021 straight out of the gates of COVID – you may have heard about the amazing speakers and business comradery that was forged by attendees who took part in this iconic event at the Sheraton Mirage Resort in Port Douglas. This year, we are hosting the event a little closer to home, at a 5 star tropical resort that feels like you are a million miles away, but in the heart of the Cairns CBD.
It’s been a tough few years and we want the 2025-2026 financial year to be the best year yet for the business community and we know our Business Retreat, which is a proven success model will be a MUST ATTEND for anyone in business who wants to reset their focus and hear from the leaders in their field on how to tackle business with a new perspective, a sharper focus, creative ideas and a sense of gusto!
🎟️ Tickets Include 🎟️
- 2 x days with national and local business experts
- 2 x days to work on your business uninterrupted
- One-on-one time with local experts
- Photo opportunities with nationally acclaimed keynote speakers
- All materials provided
- All meals provided (morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea) as well as drinks and canapes at the evening welcome cocktail party
- Opportunity to network with like minded people in business and industry experts
- Goodie Bag with contents valued at over $300 per person
- Be inspired, motivated and energised to breathe new life into your personal and business life post attendance
- Special rates for accommodation on offer for all attendees who wish to stay in-house and experience the true business retreat getaway
- Special rates for massages and beauty therapies at the in-house day spa for all attendees
- 1 x FREE ticket to The Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal Business Breakfast the morning of the event (commencing at 6:45am and ending at 9am Fri 9th May 2025) to be inspired by keynote speaker to be announced soon – $100 from every ticket will be donated to The Salvation Army to kick off the local Business Appeal on your behalf
* If you wish to attend this breakfast please advise us when booking your ticket so we can reserve you a seat and allocate your $100 donation for the event. - One on one and groups sessions with experts in:
💌 Marketing | 📈Finance & Accounting | 💰Wealth Creation | ⚖️Commercial Law | 👨Recruitment & Human Resources | 👷♂️Industrial Relations | 🤝 Executive Leadership | 🍎Nutrition, Personal Development & 🧘🏽♀️Wellness
