Business & Markets
AI can’t scale an adviser’s attention
Faster processing can expand a service business, but growth still runs through the scarce human capacity to pay attention and make sound judgments.
Episode 63 guest
Kane Leersen
Kane Leersen is an Australian financial professional, community leader, and former athlete based in Colac, Victoria.
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Kane Leersen is an Australian financial professional, community leader, and former athlete based in Colac, Victoria. He balances a prominent career in regional wealth management with deep roots in local country football and philanthropy.
Raised as a fifth-generation sheep shearer’s son, he successfully transitioned from his rural roots into wealth management, earning both a Commerce degree and an MBA. Today, he serves as the Organisation Leader and Personal Financial Adviser at Regional Prosperity, a firm dedicated to delivering transparent, values-driven financial advice to regional families and businesses.
With over a decade of industry experience, he champions the belief that prosperity should not be limited by geographic boundaries. His community-first leadership approach has earned widespread industry recognition, including being named to The Inside Network’s “40 Under 40” list and receiving a nomination for Thought Leader of the Year.
Conversations
Ideas from the conversation
Business & Markets
AI gives financial advisers more client time
Regional Prosperity uses AI to increase back-office throughput so its people can devote more attention to the relationships that make its financial advice valuable.
Business & Markets
AI must solve immediate SME bottlenecks
For a small business under delivery pressure, AI becomes useful when it clears a bottleneck quickly enough to create value today.
Software Systems
Build SME software around existing workflows
AI-assisted software building gives SMEs a practical alternative to reshaping their work around generic systems that only partly fit.
Software Systems
How SMEs test and fix business bottlenecks
Small firms gain speed by testing ideas cheaply and directing investment towards the constraint that is holding back the business now.
Knowledge & Memory
Technology gaps complicate regional business succession
Regional businesses of considerable scale can sit at opposite ends of the technology spectrum, creating very different challenges when their systems pass to a new owner.
Business & Markets
Why SME succession matters to regional communities
When most of an owner’s wealth sits inside a regional business, an absent succession plan puts both a family’s future and a community asset at risk.