Rod Nicholson - Managing Director
Rod Nicholson is the Managing Director and founder of Creative Life International Ltd, a unique business, dedicated to empowering others through sharing real knowledge and wisdom. In his professional life, Rod has been a teacher and headmaster, a business man and author, and by any modern standards, he has achieved enormous success in any venture he has committed himself to.
But it's not just Rod's knowledge, experience and compassion which equips him to help others. At the age of 16, Rod joined the Christian Brothers, and became a monk. He knew then that life had a deep meaningfulness, and that his path in life was to make the world a better place. His life story up to now is one which is full of examples of his dedication to that decision - he eventually left the Brothers, married and had four children, emigrated to Australia, built up a small country secondary school of 240 pupils to over 1000 in the course of a decade, and created one of the most successful psychic lines in the world today. His passion for reading and learning has allowed him to accumulate a breadth and depth of knowledge of most of the great wisdom traditions in the world today - christian theology, taoism, buddhism, etc. And informing all of that experience has been his commitment to personal contemplation, and to living his life with integrity and compassion.
And now, at the age of 70, Rod is beginning a new venture - the development of a project he has named as 'The Wisdom Factor'. It is difficult to articulate simply what 'The Wisdom Factor' actually is in the English language. The Japanese word 'Sensei' comes close - The two characters that make up the term can be directly translated as "born before" and implies one who teaches, based on wisdom from age and experience. But there's still something more - the mysterious element which is difficult to quantify. This mysterious element is there in the words Rod shares with you - put simply, it's the energy which he shares directly with you. He has the unique gift of awakening a deep knowing within you - that knowing we all have within ourselves - our own personal wisdom.
Personally, I have known Rod for almost 25 years. I was a very young and inexperienced teacher in that school in 'small town Australia' all those years ago. I watched as he regularly held an assembly hall of over 1000 teenagers in the palm of his hand, not through fear, as so many teachers and school principals do, but because he had something real and meaningful to communicate. In more recent years, working again with Rod in Creative Life International, I can honestly say that he has taught me more about life than anyone else I've known, and he has helped me to find a level of peacefulness and self-acceptance that I previously doubted I'd ever really find.
I believe that Rod Nicholson has the ability to really know people in their essence, and he does this very quickly - he doesn't need long conversations to access this knowledge. It's not that kind of knowledge. He simply goes to his own personal wisdom and 'knowing' and connects with people in their heart of hearts.
'THE WISDOM FACTOR - GET TO KNOW THE STRONGEST PART OF YOURSELF'
