Morton Learning was co-founded by Amanda Morgan and Paul Tonich in July of 2005. Since it's inception over 4 years ago, the company has delivered training to over 4000 people across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Both Amanda and Paul are active trainers within the business. Below is some information about their backgound and experience.
Paul Tonich -Keynote Speaker
Inspirational Keynote Speaker for Events and Conferences
Paul Tonich was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1972. Together with his three sisters and younger brother, Paul grew up watching his entrepreneurial parents, create and run three businesses 7 days a week to provide for their five children.
After graduating from high school in the late 80’s, Paul followed his dream and joined the Western Australian Police Force. He served ten years developing specialist skills as a trained negotiator and detective – dedicated and passionate about his responsibility to the community and determined to make a difference. With regular commendations from his superiors Paul was earmarked for a long and successful career in the force - until a chain of events on one fateful day destroyed his police career and landed him in a maximum security prison among the states worst criminals.
With no career, no income, his reputation in tatters and no idea of what the future would bring, Paul utilised his time in prison to make decisions about the rest of his life. Soon after leaving the WA Police Service and serving his sentence, Paul began a career in Real Estate Sales. With no formal business training, but a determination to succeed and rebuild his life, Paul set out to meet and study some of Australia's most successful business people.
Ten years on Paul has managed to achieve what most would achieve in a lifetime. The founding principal of one of Western Australia’s most successful real estate agencies, Paul has achieved some of the highest awards the industry has to offer across Australia including:
Awarded WA's No1 Real Estate Salesperson by REIWA (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007) REIWA Grand Master & REIWA / MLS $65 Million Club (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) First National's Top Salesperson for Western Australia (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) First National Top Salesperson for Australia (2002, 2004, 2005) First National Top Office for Western Australia (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) First National Top Office for Australia (2005) REIWA 3rd Top Office (2003, 2004, 2005) Edith Cowan University Small Business of the Year Award 2003 Finalist for the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) Award of Excellence – Residential Agency of the Year 2006
While building and working in his real estate business, Paul discovered a real passion for training others and sharing his knowledge and experiences with people who are interested in reaching their potential both professionally and personally regardless of their chosen discipline.
This passion led to the creation of Morton Learning a personal and professional development company Paul formed with his business partner and sister Amanda Morgan. Morton Learning specialises in cutting edge business training for business and sales professionals and is particularly well known Australia wide for its widely popular Mentor Program.
In the past 10 years, Paul has actively shared his systems and strategies to over 4000 people across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Paul’s keynote speeches have relevance to any business or organisation. Paul is well known as an inspirational keynote speaker .People find they can relate to his life experiences and people find they can relate to what he has learnt and achieved on many different levels. Paul's main keynote teaches others how they can overcome adversity to achieve personal and professional success. Paul’s range of keynotes can include some or all of these topics: For more information please contact Amanda Morgan on 0412 330 018 0412 330 018 . Amanda Morgan, joint director of Morton Learning, has 17 years experience in senior recruitment, business management and training roles in Western Australia and the United Kingdom. A fully qualifed Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) with postgraduate qualifications in Education, Amanda started her business career as a Financial Accountant for Merrill Lynch and Kleinwort Benson in London's merchant banking precinct. After extensively travelling through western and eastern Europe, Amanda settled back in Perth to take on a role as an Executive Recruiter for Drake International. In 1995 Amanda was approached by Manpower International to set up the Technical Recruitment division of Manpower in Western Australia. During Amanda's 5 years with Manpower she successfully developed a thriving Technical Recruitment business and co-ordinated several large scale recruitment campaigns for companies like Bankwest, Disney, Alinta Gas, BHP, and Telstra. A passion for training others led Amanda to pursue post graduate qualifications in Business Education and a senior role as a business lecturer for Curtin International College at Curtin University in Bentley, Western Australia.
Paul’s role within Morton Learning involves that of a keynote speaker for local, national and international events as well as delivery of sales training and team performance improvement training across Australia. Paul delivers to a wide and business mentoring programs to our local, national and international clients across a wide range of industries and disciplines.
Finding direction in your Business
Social Media in Business
Finding your competitive edge
Sustainability
Re-inventing your Brand
True leverage and how to use it.
Developing High Performance Teams
Profitability
Balancing the 4 life portfolio’s
Overcoming Adversity
Leaving your comfort zone.
Putting the pieces together
Leadership without title
Amanda Morgan B.Bus, Grad.Dip (Edu), CPA
Managing Director
