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Voice it - Dave Heinjus, The bloke behind Rural Directions and Pinion Advisory

April 04, 2024 • Annabelle Homer • Season 4 • Episode 33

This episode is about a man who had a entrepreneurial seizure.

What was a one-man-show in agribusiness consulting, now is the Chairperson of a multi-national company called Pinion Advisory. A leading-edge national agribusiness, water and environment consulting firm with tentacles reaching across Australia and into America.

It all started in South Australia's Clare Valley.

Before Pinion, Dave Heinjus founded Rural Directions in 1997, one of the first agribusiness consultancies in the state. It started with just him and he manages over 100 people on his team. After 23 years, he led the merger integrating Rural Directions with 3 other Australian agri-consulting companies to form Pinion; Macquarie Franklin, Sunraysia Environmental and Hydroplan.

In this podcast, you’ll hear his journey from his early days working as a contractor with the Department of Agriculture, branching into self-employment with Rural Directions, the late nights, the ongoing study, balancing all that with a young family to then chairing a multi-national company.

But let’s start with Dave’s early days growing up on the family farm on the western edge of the Barossa , a farm that he still manages.

Enjoy this journey – a journey he reflects back on and can’t believe he is where he is today.

Pinion Advisory: https://www.pinionadvisory.com/
Voice it: https://voiceit.me/

About Voice it:
My name is Annabelle Homer. I grew up on a cattle station in Central Queensland and now live in the Clare Valley in South Australia with my young family. Before children, I was an experienced broadcast journalist with the ABC travelling across the country reporting on rural issues, (The Country Hour) presenting state-wide radio programs
( Late Afternoons) and reporting for ABC TV shows ( Landline and Behind The News).

I have also completed 12 years of AMEB Speech and Drama in Queensland.

I started Voice it in 2020 specialising in public speaking training which has morphed into podcasting for organisations, private audio memoirs for families, media and interview training for organisations and MC'ing events. Thank you for tapping into Voice it and I hope you stay with me as I bring you more episodes featuring the very talented business minds of the mid-north of SA.