For the past three decades James Freestun has been passionately building successful teams of people and successful businesses through a desire to constantly learn, his active leadership style with vision and systemisation of processes tracking key metrics.
He started his first successful business in landscaping when he was 17 years old using a friends truck and his father’s tools since then he has owned and run businesses in sales, hospitality, corporate training and the construction industry. His current business interests include real estate, lending and building compliance reports.
His building compliance company has grown at an annual compound rate of over 25% for the last 15 years and leads the industry in providing services to Strata and building assets in Australia, New Zealand, Dubai and Canada. It will provide services to over 20,000 buildings this year alone.
He is now a recognised leader who specialises in building businesses using a core set of business skills.
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
– Auguste Rodin –
Financially he identifies the key financial drivers and their indicators which he describes as the ‘pulse’ of any project or business and then ensures they are properly benchmarked and monitored. His people management skills combine leadership with management and strategic planning, performance management systems, resource allocation and building company culture. His focus on and investment in constant innovation keeps his businesses at the market forefront. He is a skilful marketer with ability to create and implement successful marketing and sales campaigns that achieve constant and growing results.
James is also an internationally recognised public speaker who has presented to over 100,000 people. His clients include companies like BP, Microsoft, Flight Centre, The CPA’s and Westpac Banking Corporation. He designed and wrote two training programs used internationally to train all Flight Centre sales staff and over 25,000 people have enrolled in personal development seminars based on the sales system and training and development manual created by James.
He has dedicated his life to improving himself through studying personal development and connecting results with the root causes in his and others lives. He has achieved many things in his life and by anyone’s standards is a success. He is financially secure and a multi-millionaire, he is a philanthropist supporting good quality charities and is a family man.
He has a passion for high performance cars which he collects and tracks regularly and for international travel having visited all seven continents learning about culture and life His life education has involved early schooling in three different continents allowing exposure to a wide range of life views including ancient philosophy, language and base religions. His mother is now a Buddhist Nun, his father a yoga teacher and his in-laws well known psychics. If it sounds out there it is but James has obviously kept his feet firmly planted on the ground and integrated all this into practical ways to live a successful life.