Teresa Mitchell

Teresa Mitchell is a Melbourne-born, business entrepreneur who has been involved in small business all her life. Teresa’s family gleaned business opportunities in Australia in the construction, agricultural and retail industry as migrants in the 1950’s starting in Melbourne, and then as the family grew, spreading across Australia.

Teresa moved to Gippsland and with her partner and started up a transport business. In recent years Teresa started a company and opened the Business Support Centre based in Warragul, Gippsland.

Through Teresa’s background encompassing both public and private sectors in Human Resources, Education and Training, Teresa provides comprehensive administration and human resource expertise to the start-up and small business sector.

Teresa is community minded, compassionate and dedicated individual seeking opportunities to support and assist organisations and individuals, especially young people, to excel and develop their potential, through mentoring, positive relationships and engagement with her extensive industry connections.

Teresa views the future of the Australian economy is through digital innovation and pursues opportunities to assist in this exploration.

Teresa is a CoderDojo Champion.

Board and Committee Positions

Director of Council of Small Businesses of Australia (COSBOA); Managing Director of La Concierge; Deputy Chairperson of Gippsland Employment Skills Training (GEST Inc); executive member of Warragul Business Group; member of Gippsland Women in Business; Founding member of Business Network Alliance Victoria (BNAV); member of VECCI; Founding member of HUB Melbourne; Founding member of NAB Village; member of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI) and Committee member of AHRI Gippsland.

Past Chair of West Gippsland Advisory Group of Women Achieving Change (State Government initiative) and Past Coordinator of Gippsland Women in Business.