WHY US

OUR WHY

The Best Practice Group is Australia’s leading advisory firm in the accounting and financial planning professions. We help accountants and advisers to create great businesses, gain work-life balance, build world-class teams, create leading compounding growth strategies, and master their own succession plans.

We bring out the best in you, help you and your team to realise your full potential, gain knowledge and grow in acumen and confidence progressively. Importantly, our adult learning methodology works! We help you to implement one step at a time.

We have assisted more than 7,000 businesses in five countries over 28 years.

OUR IDEAL CLIENT

Accountants and Advisers who are coachable and eager to commit to learning and development to achieve their growth, succession and work-life balance goals and objectives.

Our Mission, Vision & Values

Our Mission, Vision and Values are our very reason for being. Unlike many organisations that pay lip service to these elements, our MVVs are at the core of every decision we make. Our team proudly acknowledge and regularly refers to our Mission, Vision, and Values in our pursuit of excellence and continuous improvement.

OUR MISSION

_{(What we do every day)}

Every day we empower business owners to move from where they are to where they really want to be

OUR VISION

_{(What we are striving to become)}

We are the global leaders in education, implementation and impact, positively influencing more lives than anyone else

OUR VALUES

_{(What is non-negotiable)}

Integrity & Accountability
Passion & Communication
Commerciality & Fun

"We live and breathe our MVV every day."

Our Backstory

Best Practice Group is the brainchild of our founder, John Peterson. John recognised a significant gap in the market for Accountants and Advisers. Who was their trusted advisor? Although there were coaches and consultants, John believed there was no single one-stop-shop for advice that Accountants could count of for every element of their well-being.

Enter the Best Practice Group.

Prior to launching BPG, John’s knowledge and experience was credentialled in three key areas:

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GROWTH

John joined the Yellow Pages organisation at the peak of its powers, the late 1980’s. In less than three years, John was promoted at 22 years old to their youngest ever District Manager with a multi-million-dollar budget. John’s passion for small business owners and their struggles was established at this point. He excelled in advertising, communications, marketing, and sales. However, the small business stress points fascinated John so he went looking for the next source of knowledge.

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LEADERSHIP & CULTURE CHANGE

John went to work for Jack Zenger, the world’s foremost authority on Leadership and Culture Change. Jack’s own firm employed 1,500 management consultants and was ranked 250 in the Fortune 500.

Located in Brisbane, John felt out of his depth for the first year. Then suddenly, it came together. He soon became one of Australia’s top leadership and change management consultants, working with household brands such as Arnotts, Conrad Jupiter's Casino, Country Road, Suncorp, Telstra, Westpac and so on.

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HEADHUNTING & RECRUITMENT

John became the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Robertson Smart, a Singapore-based executive search firm. Living in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney, John took the business from USD 1M to USD 15M in just three years. At this point, John had learned how to source leading talent in a lot of industries, including Accounting, Advertising, Banking & Finance, Engineering, FMCG, Information Technology, and Law.

Combining these three key chapters left John feeling compelled to start his own consulting firm and bring these offerings to the underserviced SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) sector via public accountants.