Build with our network,
thrive with our system.
Our Story
and Mission
Network marketing entrepreneurs make the world a better place. Especially when they help others flourish.
But let’s face it, entrepreneurship isn’t easy. If it were, everyone would be doing it.
Entrepreneurs can feel isolated. They can struggle with overwhelm, procrastination, analysis-paralysis, self doubt, and a whole host of other psychological roadblocks.
But in 2026 it’s not lack of opportunity, resources, or psychological roadblocks that are holding you back.
The real challenge is consistent execution – turning your boldest business-building ideas into effective daily action.
It’s also about generating income quickly – often within your first week – paid daily, while laying the foundation for multiple, independent income streams that grow over time.
It’s about future-proofing your business – ensuring it can withstand and adapt to inevitable competitive innovation.
That’s why we created Acumen Strategic Partners – to confront and solve these challenges and help unlock your full potential.
Our Mission
To unleash the human potential for good through life-long learning, the power of community, and a fast-track to meaningful career success! We serve our Team Partners with dignity, respect and integrity. We enhance the lives and careers of our Partners with services that inform, inspire and connect, and take enormous pleasure in helping our Partners achieve their most fondly held ambitions.
We believe in empowering people
We believe that when individuals are equipped with the right tools and the right support, remarkable things happen. It’s about building skills and confidence, and unlocking belief in what is truly possible. It’s about helping people take true ownership of their journey and rising beyond our self-imposed limitations.
We believe in the power of community
We believe community has the power to transform lives. It’s where connection replaces isolation, and where support, encouragement, and shared vision turn individual efforts into collective momentum. Genuine friendship that inspires us to grow, to lead, and to show up each day in good heart and common cause.
We believe in fair opportunity for all
We believe that true success doesn’t come from status or climbing the greasy pole of a corporate hierarchy – it comes from the courage to start, the willingness to grow, and the heart to serve others. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to grow, lead, and thrive, regardless of their background or resources.
Welcome to Acumen Strategic Partners
A network marketing launchpad for independent entrepreneurs ready to create real income and scalable impact – quickly. A place where fast income, hands-on mentorship, and entrepreneurial freedom lead the way. One where the emphasis is placed firmly on genuine partnership, friendship, and practical, hands-on support. A world where “Working With“ and driving the roots deep is the norm not the exception.
Introducing our Working With Mentor Model
Our refreshingly simple “Working With“ business model essentially monitises the professional support function of the sponsor and upline. A paid peer-group business model designed from the ground up to reward you with the fastest possible route to income when you mentor and support your new people.
This takes the form of the three proprietory components that make up our Working With Mentor Model:
Develop Multiple Streams of Income
So you’ve launched your Acumen Strategic Partners business. New people are joining your personal development and personal coaching orientated community. Our powerfully supportive “Working With Mentor Model” is delivering great value and you’ve developed a fast new stream of income. People are thriving and things are going amazing. So where do you go from here?
A key point to recognise from the outset is that Acumen Strategic Partners operate as a wholly independent community of entrepreneurs. This un-tied, independent status means there’s no limit to the products and services (and their associated income opportunities) our community can adopt. These can be simple affiliate-type product distribution opportunities, specially negotiated offers, or yes, even fully fledged network marketing opportunities!
You’ll enjoy complete freedom to independently market a wide range of high-converting products and offers – without being tied to just one company or brand. No single-company limitations. No losing out to the inevitable competitive innovations of the future. Just full control over your income and influence across multiple streams.
Own your platform. Accelerate your path. Monitise across multiple streams.
Harness the power of our "Working With Mentor Model"
A key innovation that incentivises you to mentor and support rather than aggressively recruit
Meet many new people and make many new friends
Our business is all about creating healthy social connection and meaningful friendships
Get paid daily from your very first week in the business
Our “peer-to-peer” Income Plan is designed to get you and your team into daily income fast
Slay the dragon of obedience to hierarchy
Progress in a spirit of fairness and equity from the outset. Enjoy true equality of opportunity
Unlock our community training and development library
Explore a range of high-impact online courses created to help you grow, lead, and thrive.
"Futureproof" your business against future innnovation
An “evergreen” business designed to actively embrace future innovation and opportunities
Acumen Strategic Partners
Meet the Founder
Jo Smith
Founder
Acumen Strategic Partners are driven by the idea that our very best work as professional network marketers is borne of a commitment to others.
Founder and Managing Director
Jo Smith
Jo Smith is a relentless network marketing investor, field trainer, speaker and Distributor. His vision of an innovative learning environment and mentored support network evolved through his desire to confront the practical challenges he observed over the course of his 20+ years in the field. A vision resulting in a whole series of Distributor-centric innovations including: the company-wide adoption of the Principle of Holacracy (ethical organisational governance and the stripping-out of traditional corporate hierarchy); the launch of our “Cashback Protocol” (an initiative designed to draw-down revenue from trusted third-party vendors to negate early-stage Team Partner risk); the introduction of our “Peer-to-Peer” Income Model (establishing income security and that all-important fast route to income); and a commitment to a rigorous Code of Ethics that subjects us all to a fundamentally higher standard of behaviour.
Phil says…
Acumen Strategic Partners are driven by the idea that our very best work as professional network marketers is borne of a commitment to others. A commitment to our peers that really sinks into the bones of who we are and what we’re about. We admire our fellow network marketers for pushing through their fears to launch out in pursuit of their ambitions, and we see our collective entrepreneurial flair as having a hugely positive role to play in difficult times. So if you believe in the importance of lasting personal development, if you feel that you’re meant to strive for something much greater, if you want to unleash your own potential for good and bring others with you, we’d love to have you join our growing family.