Our History
In 2004, too poor and restless to retire, and taking that long European summer break that I’d promised myself, I stood on the Palatine Hill in Rome, reading the Lonely Planet guide-book that described how Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus “high on the Palatine, overlooking the oxbowcurve of the Tiber river”. It was that moment when I realised my destiny for the second half of my career.
Ending the holiday with my family, I returned to Sydney and started a consulting business later that year, and called it Oxbowcurve
Consulting (something about that word and the moment left an impression on me).
Working initially from my kitchen table at Palm Beach, I sketched out the essentials of what that great consulting business could look like. I printed cards, rang some contacts and got the ball rolling. I soon moved the operation to the CBD of Sydney, and took space in a serviced office.
By 2007, the business had become Generator Talent to better define our focus and work. We expanded our practices, moving to our own permanent George St office. I added staff and our first Partner, Paul Bethell. Since that time, we’ve grown to a business of multiple Partners, and moved to a larger office in Martin Place, Sydney. We now operate a true Trans-Tasman business, with
offices in Melbourne and Auckland as well – together they form what is now known as the Generator Talent Group.
While a lot has changed since that day in Rome, we still hold true to our paragon of being the type of business that we’d like to work with if we were still clients: “WORKING WITH MY MATES, DOING WORK WE LOVE, WITH CLIENTS WE LIKE”. It’s as simple as that!
Glen Petersen, CEO
GENERATOR TALENT GROUP
