January Breakfast before Business
Our speaker for January’s breakfast was John Hale, Managing Director of Next Step Consulting, a boutique firm specialising in strategy consulting, organisational change and executive coaching. John works with both private and public sector clients across a broad range of industries to set strategy, build relationships, negotiate systems, enhance performance and inspire teams. John is a Visiting Professor at Bond University working closely with the Centre of Executive Education. He worked as a facilitator and presenter at hundreds of conferences and events. Leading Executive Coach, John Hale presented the eight values based levels of consciousness, which represent the core value codes of humanity. Drawn from the ‘Spiral Dynamics’ work of MIT Professor Claire Graves, these values codes were used to resolve Apartheid in South Africa and during 2010 will be taught to a new leadership group to heal and rebuild society in Palestine.
Who’s who in the Zoo?
By now most of us are aware that our values drive our attitudes and our attitudes drive our behaviours and that understanding your own value set and the value sets of others around you are critical to business and organisation success.
The breakfast was a fantastic way to kick off a new business year with John’s interesting presentation and a full room of business people connecting, sharing a laugh and I am sure some great networking was also taking place! 
