Sunshine Coast CEO Business Breakfast · Wed 22 July 2026
You built a good business. It still can't run without you in the middle of it.
The decisions that bottleneck on you. The accountability that evaporates. The strategy that lives in one room and the culture that lives in another. You absorb all of it, because the business still works. Absorbing it has become the job. And it is wearing you down.
This is not a people problem. It never was. It is a structure problem. And it is about to stop hiding.
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Small room. Once it is full, it is full.
The Wharf Events Room: 123 Parkyn Parade, Mooloolaba
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Culture or strategy? Wrong question.
There's a reason you're exhausted. Sixty seconds on why picking a side is the trap that keeps the friction coming back, and what the morning of 22 July does about it.
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Who runs the room
This morning is run by Dave Clare. Thirty years a leadership practitioner across three continents. International Chair of the Intercontinental Chamber of Commerce. APAC Ambassador for the Global Company Culture Association. Named Most Influential Purpose-Driven Leadership Development Speaker at the 2026 Australian CEO Excellence Awards.
Not a theorist. A practitioner who has done this in the room, in five countries, for thirty years.
A few of the organisations we've worked with
What changes this year
Every business on the Coast faces the same conditions. Rising costs. Wages climbing. People you cannot find and cannot keep, in a market only getting tighter.
So why do some businesses still pull away?
It is not the market. You cannot control the market. The constraints are a wave. The talent crunch is a wave. AI is a wave. And the waves are coming faster.
Each one exposes the same thing. A business that can only react, with you in the middle of every decision. Or a business built to respond at worst and lead at best.
The constraints did not create that weakness. They exposed it. Same as AI is about to. Same as the next wave will.
You can't control the water. You can build a different boat. That is what this morning is about.
What you walk out with
Not a notebook full of theory. A working diagnosis of your business.
This is a working session. You leave with something you can use the same day.
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The full integration model, mapped live
See how purpose, values, behaviour, strategy, and execution function as one closed-loop system. Not conceptually. Structurally. With the mechanism visible.
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A diagnosis of where your business is structurally separated
Find the exact decision points where culture and strategy run as two systems. And what that separation has cost you every week, while you carried it.
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The real reason the friction keeps coming back
It is not your people. It is a design flaw. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. You stop managing the symptom and start naming the cause.
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What integration looks like in your context
Not a generic framework. The first moves toward integration in your organisation. Your people. Your decisions. Your current state.
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A room of CEOs who have stopped pretending aspiration is architecture
Small room. Real conversation. No theatre. Everyone here is past curiosity. They are serious about evolving what got them here.
This morning is where it starts, not where it ends. You leave with the diagnosis and the first moves. What you build from there is the work, and we will show you the path before you walk out.
The part the fear misses
AI raises the floor on everything mechanical. Which means the human and structural strength of your business is now the entire game.
The biggest no longer wins. The most human does.
You are not here to compete with the machines. You are here to build the one thing they will never replace. A business people line up to work for, that runs on clarity instead of on you.
Live in the room
You won't take our word for it.You shouldn't have to.
These are CEOs who sat where you are sitting. They ran good businesses, quietly held back by the same separation this page describes. They made the shift, and at the last event they stood up and said what actually changed.
At your event you'll hear new ones. Live. In the room. Answering real questions. Here is what the last room sounded like.
"People don't avoid accountability. They avoid environments where it feels unsafe to make decisions."
David Judge, CEO, Affordable
On the power of purpose — getting everyone connected and engaged in meaningful work.
"The lights came on across the whole company… and the company could move forward in good hands that didn't always need to be mine."
Steve Gilbert, CEO, Spaces by Get Parked
On teaching his team to think through the lens of values, so they make smarter decisions.
"Mission is bloody hard. It is ridiculously difficult. The mission is still true. Every time we've sat around scratching our heads… we still land in the same place."
Cam Levick, CEO, Plungie
On the power of a clear mission — the destination that shows his team what the future looks like.
Speaking live · 22 July
Who's in the room this time.
A CEO who has made the shift, speaking live and taking your questions — hosted by our MC. This is not a panel of consultants. It is someone who sat where you are sitting and changed it.
CEO · Speaking live
Gary Holland
RangeCare
Running the morning
Dave Clare
Circle Leadership Global
Your MC
Gavin Keeley
Circle Leadership Global
You have seen what the morning does and who is in the room.
Claim your seat → It holds 50 seats. Claim your seat before it is full.
What it's worth
What a working diagnosis of your business is actually worth.
Companies pay us $2,500 to run a session like this in-house with their leadership team. That is the going rate for the diagnosis, the model mapped to their business, and the first moves out. Most owners spend far more than that fixing it from the outside. A strategy offsite. A culture workshop. A leadership program. Each one treats a single symptom, and none of them touch the structure underneath. The bill runs into the tens of thousands and the separation is still there on Monday.
The in-house version is $2,500.
A seat at this breakfast is $47.
Same diagnosis. Same model on one page. Same first moves, mapped to your business. One room instead of yours, and a signed copy of the book it is built on.
A working diagnosis of your businessThe whole system on one page, mapped to your current state
included
Working session workbookYours to take into the business the same day
included
Signed copy of It's Time to Lead DifferentThe book this morning is built on
included
A room of serious CEOsLive proof, real questions, no theatre
included
Your seat
From $47
The details
DateWed 22 July 2026
Time7:30 – 11:00 AMDoors & breakfast from 7:30It is a breakfast, not a day off the tools. Doors at 7:30, you are back at your desk by lunch, seeing your business differently.
WhereThe Wharf Events Room123 Parkyn Parade, Mooloolaba ↗
IncludedWorkbook, book & breakfastWorking session workbook · signed copy of It's Time to Lead Different · barista coffee & tea · a light breakfast
How to come
Come alone if you're curious. Bring your leadership team if you're committed.
A diagnosis you hear alone becomes a memo nobody reads. A diagnosis your team hears together becomes a decision. The people who help you ride the next wave should be the same people who were in the room when you learned how. For teams, the morning doubles as a live leadership exercise.
ONE SEAT
The Owner
$47
You, getting the diagnosis first. Come alone and you'll leave seeing what only you can see. The risk is you become the bottleneck for the very thing you came to fix.
Claim one seat →Most committed
3–6 LEADERS
The Leadership Team
$97 · up to 6
The people who run the business with you, in the room when the shift happens. Up to six leaders. Not hearing it secondhand. This is the committed move.
Book a table →TWO SEATS
The Partnership
$67
Your partner or your right hand beside you. The two people who actually make the calls, hearing it at the same time, leaving on the same page.
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★ Australian CEO Excellence Awards 2026
Most Influential Purpose-Driven Leadership Development Speaker
Dave Clare
A note from Dave Clare.
I run these rooms for one kind of person. The owner who built something good, and can feel it is being held together by their own effort, and knows that is not a plan.
If you are here to defend command and control, this is not for you. No hard feelings. If you are looking for a smarter way to squeeze more out of people, you have the wrong breakfast.
But if you can feel the old model producing the friction, the bottlenecks, the good people leaving, and you want a business that runs on clarity instead of on you, then we should spend a morning together.
I have spent thirty years doing this in real businesses, on three continents. Not theory. Not a framework I read about. The work, in the room, with owners exactly like you. What I have learned is simple. The businesses that win the next decade will not be the biggest or the ones that grew the hardest. They will be the most human, and the most integrated. Built on purpose, not held together by a person.
That is what this morning is about. I would like you there.
Dave
You leave with the book
It's Time to Lead Different.
By Dave Clare
This morning is built on the ideas in the book — the case for leading on purpose instead of by command and control, and building a business that runs on clarity instead of on you.
Every seat includes a signed copy, yours to take into the business the same week.
Signed copy included with every seat
About Circle Leadership Global
For eight years we have helped leaders build World C.L.A.S.S. organisations, businesses where culture, leadership, and strategy run as one integrated system instead of three separate things held together by hope. We work across five countries with thousands of leaders.
Industry recognition
When the Australian Financial Review and KPMG take an interest in how we build businesses, it might be worth finding out what the fuss is about.
We are not a training company, a culture consultancy, or a strategy firm.
We do not help you run your business better. We help your business run differently.
The room is capped at 50 seats
The constraints are not going away. Costs, labour, the lot. The waves keep coming, and faster. Every business in the room on 22 July faces the same ones you do.
Businesses don't run out of money. They run out of the ability to respond. That capacity is not luck and it is not hustle. It is built.
Evolve or dissolve. That has always been the choice. The waves just made it visible.
If you weren't already running your business this way, would you choose it again?
If that's not an immediate yes, it's a no.
Claim your seat → Once it is full, it is full.