This blog is about my thoughts on personal development, innovation and inspiration. It covers a number of topics on personal development, continuous learning and the characteristics of successful people through my personal experiences and knowledge.
I committed myself to a journey of lifelong learning and self-education when I discovered at an early age that this was one of the keys to success and to achieving a fulfilling and abundant life. I work on the philosophy that “If you can help enough people get what they want, then you will get what you want out of life”.
Following is a brief synopsis of my personal background:
Dr John Kapeleris started his career in medical diagnostics after completing his university degrees, specialising in exotic infectious diseases, such as dengue fever, leptospira, HHV6, EBV and Q fever. He was drawn towards his childhood passion for wanting to help people better diagnose and treat infectious diseases.
Through his innovative and entrepreneurial thinking John was able to design and develop 16 ‘new-to-the-world’ medical diagnostic products that catapulted a small Brisbane-based medical diagnostics company from a loss to $20million in revenue. The company was recognised for a number of achievements and awards including, Australian Small Business of the Year, Australian Quality Award, Exporter of the Year and Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies for seven consecutive years.
John has lived his dream of a successful life by continuing to develop and learn using an open mind and thinking outside the box. His lateral thinking skills allows him to assist clients to take their innovative ideas to market. He has assisted numerous individuals, small businesses, universities, government agencies and large corporates to implement successful strategies and innovations to grow their businesses.
John practices what he advocates by continuing to develop new programs and services to help businesess. He has successfully developed and commercialised programs such as TechFast®, an online Commercialisation Management System to help entrepreneurs traverse their journey from idea to market, Innovation Coaching and TechClinics™.
As a highly regarded and sought-after speaker John has delivered numerous presentations nationally and internationally, in one year presenting to over 200 people in Malaysia. One of his favourite books “Think and Grow Rich” and his interest in personal success influenced John to enrol in the Brian Tracy University where he completed the personal development course “Maximising Your Performance”. His interests include knowledge management, creativity and innovation and how these are leveraged to gain competitive advantage in the market. John is the co-author of the book titled “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology – An International Perspective”.
John is also working on a number of his own entrepreneurial businesses applying what he has learnt, including, the Achieving Personal Succes Book, Manual and online course which provides a structured approach to applying practical solutions to achieve personal success.
I hope you can also come along with me on the journey to personal success and enlightenment.
Good luck and I look forward to reading your comments and replies.
Dr John Kapeleris