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Eddie Griffith is a business turnaround specialist with 25 years of experience helping small and family businesses manage financial distress, crisis and succession with clarity and control. Eddie has been a member of the Turnaround Management Association since 2015.
• Integrating legal and taxation expertise, Eddie ensures directors make informed, compliant and strategic decisions under pressure;
• Bringing a uniquely diverse range of industry experience and the grit that comes from enduring and overcoming life challenges;
• Refusing to tolerate fools and defending against coercive tactics at every opportunity, without hesitation and without compromise.

Eddie leads efforts to lift professional standards in family business advisory, ensuring owners receive ethical and practical advice when it counts.
• Delivering clear business recovery frameworks that restore direction and confidence
• Promoting mental-health-aware practices through partnership programs such as Beyond Blue’s New Access for Small Business Owners (NASBO initiative)
• Calling out poor conduct, dated practices and driving reform across the outdated distressed advisory sector

As an advocate for small and family businesses, Eddie immediately relieves the pressure on business owners by formulating market leading turnaround strategies. Eddie takes pride in confidently tackling the multiple and complex issues that business owners face in times of entrepreneurial risk, financial distress and crisis. Backed by a powerful network of high performing professionals, Eddie ensures small and family businesses are fiercely represented and never left to fight alone.

Education, Professional Memberships & Attainment:

  • Member of the Turnaround Management Association & Certified Turnaround Professional Associate (UTS Law, Accounting, Managment). CTP®.
  • Practising Member & Chairman of the Association for Business Restructuring and Turnaround Ltd (ABRT.org.au). Certified Restructuring & Turnaround Practitioner (UTS). RTP®.
  • ASIC licensed Australian Credit Licence holder (Debt Management Services - ACL 533933).
  • Graduate Member of The Australian Institute of Company Directors. GAICD.
  • Master of Business Administration, Fellow, Certified & Chartered Manager of the Institute of Managers & Leaders (formerly AIM). MBA, CMgr, CPMgr®, FIML.
  • Member in Practice of the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA Mental Health First Aid Officer). MIPA AFA.
  • Member and Certified Credit Executive of the Australian Institute of Credit Management (AICM). MICM, CCE.
  • AIIP Certified Associate Member (lapsed 2024): Insolvency Law and Practice Certificate (Bond University - Academic Peer).
  • Advanced Dual Certification with the Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association 2016 – ARITA:
    • Advanced Certificate in Restructuring & Turnaround (Highest Mark Award 2016)
    • Advanced Certificate in Insolvency (Insolvency Education Program, 2012)
  • Joint Insolvency Exams & Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency (JIEB & CPI, England & Wales). Insolvency Practitioners Association (UK).
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