About Gavin Hoole

This personal website is pretty much about me and my involvements, but here’s some more personal detail for those who may be interested.

• Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1940 and educated at the Grey Junior and Grey High Schools.
• Tertiary education at Rhodes University, Grahamstown and School of Business Leadership (University of South Africa – Advanced Executives’ Programme), Pretoria.
• Formerly in the corporate world, with Ford Motor Company in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and Melbourne, Australia; later a member of the Board of Directors of a fairly large industrial company and its subsidiaries.
• Travelled to the USA (New York, Buffalo) and England for strategic planning and operational planning meetings and presentations.
• Travelled on business to England, Ireland, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
• Later a self-employed Management Consultant specializing in company strategy and organization structure.
• Retired and now living in the Fish Hoek area of Cape Town, South Africa, though still actively engaged with life as an author,  practical philosopher and webmaster of my own websites.
• Author/co-author of over 20 published how-to manuals, and still involved with publishing.
• Self-taught part-time webmaster.
• Creator and teacher of Conscious Mental Rest^©, a modern system of stress release in a natural way – a process that would probably be termed in some circles as ‘deep meditation’.
• Father of three: a son in Cape Town, a daughter in Denver, Colorado, and a daughter in Andalusia (Andalucia), Spain.
• Most recent hobby: A new website (Oct 2010) for people to share their Rock ‘n’ Roll favourites of the golden years of Rock ‘n’ Roll – the fifties and early sixties: Rock-and-Roll-Favorites.com
• Recently added a sub-domain to this site for info on the K53 Driver’s Licence preparation, starting with the Learner’s Licence: k53.GavinHoole.ws

See also my main areas of interest