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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Still trying to guess which matters more — culture or strategy?
Still trying to guess which matters more — culture or strategy?
There's a reason you're exhausted.
Sixty seconds on why the question itself is the trap — 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.
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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.
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.
Speaking live · 22 July
Who's in the room this time.
Two CEOs who have made the shift, speaking live and taking your questions — hosted by our MC. Lineup to be confirmed.
To be confirmed
[PHOTO — Gary Holland]
CEO · Speaking live
Gary Holland
RangeCare
[LOGO — RangeCare]
To be confirmed
[PHOTO — Steve Gilbert]
CEO · Speaking live
Steve Gilbert
Spaces by Get Parked
[LOGO — Spaces by Get Parked]
[PHOTO — Gavin Keeley]
Your MC
Gavin Keeley
Circle Leadership Global
[LOGO — Circle Leadership Global]
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 — running 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.
[VIDEO — David Judge]
"People don't avoid accountability. They avoid environments where it feels unsafe to make decisions."
David Judge, CEO · prior event
Aspiration is not architecture, and he found out which one he'd built.
[VIDEO — Steve Gilbert]
"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 · prior event
He stopped being the person every decision ran through — and the business kept moving.
[VIDEO — Cam Levick]
[QUOTE — Cam Levick]
Cam Levick, CEO · prior event
[ONE-LINE CONTEXT — Cam Levick]
You have seen what the morning does and who is in the room.
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What it's worth
What a working diagnosis of your business is actually worth.
Most owners spend years and real money trying to fix this 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.
This morning does the opposite. One room. One diagnosis. The whole system on one page, with the mechanism visible, and the first moves mapped to your business.
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
[SEAT PRICE]
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
[PRICE]
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.
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A TABLE
The Leadership Team
[PRICE]
The people who run the business with you, in the room when the shift happens. Not hearing it secondhand. This is the committed move.
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The Partnership
[PRICE]
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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A note from Dave
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
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. We are a finalist in the AFR and KPMG Most Innovative Companies.
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 details
DateWed 22 July 2026
Time7:30 – 11:00 AMLight breakfast from 7:45
WhereThe Wharf Events RoomSunshine Coast
IncludedWorkbook + signed bookNo theatre. No pitch from the stage.
The room is capped at [CAP]
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.
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.
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