John has been a long term insurance broker and now a business resilience consultant. In 2014 he founded RiteTrack specifically to mentor SMEs, that is, small and medium sized enterprises with free educational resources and events about safety, business productivity and resilience. He attended a seminar this year in Houston tilted ‘Safety Leadership: How to Drive Excellence and Beat the Competition’. So, how did John end up at this seminar? Well, none other than LinkedIn where published Amazon author Brian Feilkow, a US culture change expert contacted John.
John’s business is about guiding for growth by preventing loss of business. And it’s all in the patterns… Some of us found - well me - this philosophical nuance cerebrally challenging but the gist of it is that business owners do not truly understand their business – they know their business but do not understand their business which became apparent following the Christchurch earthquakes.
So John has turned his attention to understanding the client’s business and the patterns within the business because everything we do in life/work etc has a pattern, a routine or an arrangement. John’s focus is to guide people to prevent losses, claims and waste therefore assisting the business to grow.
John proceeded with an exercise called “why do we scribble patterns” for the members to define what’s going in our heads as our thinking makes a connection to make a whole or a pattern. So if taken back to understanding the business, the frequency of the pattern creates the probability of loss! Light bulb moment here for me!! John’s focus is in understanding these patterns that exist and what can be done to prevent and reduce the effects of these patterns occurring in business.
Finally back to your scribble exercise helped by a quote from John “from rubbish you can do amazing things”. To this end to win the best ‘scribble’ pattern please send to John at John.f.barley@gmail.com. All the best!