Small business wellness coaches

Wellness coaches help small business owners with unique and personal business challenges, needs and opportunities in a free one-on-one, supportive environment.

Wellness coaches are available to work with you, your employees, or any of your family members who are employed in your business.

A coach can help you work through your current business or personal challenges, and also refer you to a specialist service provider for support to reduce stress, improve wellbeing and provide flexible business support.

Wellness coaches will work with small business financial counsellors and rural financial counsellors to help support you and your business.

Support for disaster impacted small business owners

Dedicated support is available for small businesses in defined disaster areas that experienced direct or indirect disaster impacts, to re-establish operations, maintain employment, and become more resilient for future disaster events.

• Tropical Cyclone Jasper and associated flooding from 13 to 28 December 2023—view the activation summary (PDF, 2.3MB)
• South East Queensland storms and subsequent flooding from 24 December 2023 to 3 January 2024—view the activation summary (PDF, 1.4MB).

The program provides additional small business wellness coaches and financial counsellors in impacted areas.

This program is administered by the Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (DESBT). It is jointly supported by the Australian and Queensland governments under the Commonwealth State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).

Locations

Wellness coaches are available across Queensland. They are located in:

• Southern Queensland
  • Gold Coast
  • Logan
  • North Brisbane
  • South Brisbane
  • Toowoomba
• Northern Queensland
  • Cairns
  • Mackay
  • Mossman and Far North Queensland
  • Townsville.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible to access a coach, your small business must (at the time of applying):

• have fewer than 20 employees (full-time equivalents) and less than $10 million in annual turnover
• have an active Australian Business Number (ABN)
• have your small business as your primary income source (i.e. 50% or more of the total income), or you must have a recent record of it being your primary income source and the potential to do so again (as determined by the Network coach or counsellor)
• be based in Queensland
• have owners/directors that are not insolvent or are an undischarged bankrupt.

Microbusinesses and sole traders are eligible to access a coach.

Small business wellness promotional resources

A range of promotional materials are available to help connect small business owners with the services of the Small Business Support Network including our small business wellness coaches.

Download the resources to promote the wellness coaches to small businesses in your network.

• Online videos—discover your small business support network
  • 30 seconds
  • 15 seconds
• social media tiles
• posters.