We won't be able to give Esther Price justice in this blog, but if you have ever been in the room with her then you know just how ExtraOrdinary she is. The influence she has on people around her is incredible, particularly when she is on stage, she really is absolutely captivating.

Esther calls Western Australia (WA) home and always has. She is about to become a Grandmother and is more physically fit than ever.

Founder and CEO of IVM Group, Nick Bloor describes his business as having a mission to improve people's lives through plant science. 

At only 19 years old, Nick founded his first business in vegetation management space. 

“I was going to be a lawyer and got a bit of a light bulb moment.”

“That (law) wasn't an area that I was going to be able to make a difference. And maybe that had something to do with the fact that I reckon I'd be a pretty crappy lawyer that I switched to horticulture.”

To describe Sarah Sivyer as worldly and business savvy would be absolutely under-selling her. Sarah describes herself as a ‘serious data nerd’ and a ‘serious business model nerd’. After sitting down with her to record the podcast, we believe it and love it!

“I'm going to sound a bit wacky, I just love excellent businesses.”

“I don't want to make it sound too fluffy, but it lit a fire inside of me. And it was like, ‘Hey, I'm going to build a tech business in the bush’.” 

And that’s exactly what Mark did.

“Tech was disrupting every other industry, but it hadn't really disrupted agriculture.”

“I wanted to start something where we could solve a problem straight away for farmers.”

Hamish Marr has been in the room for some of New Zealand Agriculture’s key discussions, yet the moment that he is most proud of and one that has defined his career more than any other was when a young boy asked him if he could teach him to be a farmer.