Author: Ian Munro @ leadingessentially.com

Ian Munro is a leadership and vitality coach with a primary passion for working with senior professionals who wish to improve their connection to and vitality in their career, or who wish to make a transition to a meaningful and rewarding retirement. His methods are focused on helping clients understand why they present as they do in day-to-day life, discover their authentic self and give themselves permission to build a meaningful and rewarding future, both professional and personal. Ian’s love for this work has developed naturally as he built his career as an executive and leader in the IT services industry, serving in many roles and facets of this industry over 25 years. As he reached the pinnacle of his career he began to search more deeply for meaning and alternate rewards from his own career and to begin to plan for his own “first retirement”.

Knowing When and How To Challenge Others

I had some feedback from a coaching client recently that prompted this post. At the end of each of my coaching sessions I usually ask how the session went and whether there is anything that I could do that would make our work together more effective. Feedback isn’t always offered, but when it is it … Continue reading Knowing When and How To Challenge Others

How Will You Ultimately Measure Your Success?

Tomorrow is the first day of my “first retirement”. That’s the day where I deliberately shift the way I think of myself from “needing to work” to “wanting to work”. The milestone has me thinking of it as the first day of the rest of my life, and asking questions about how I might look … Continue reading How Will You Ultimately Measure Your Success?

Feeling Overwhelmed? 3 Approaches to Moving Through It

I’ve been in the land of the overwhelmed for the past several weeks. You know those times when everything seems to come at you at once? Sometimes it is just about quantity. We might have too many things on our plate that need attention and it is hard to figure out what to do first. Other … Continue reading Feeling Overwhelmed? 3 Approaches to Moving Through It

The Fact and Fiction of Keeping It Simple

We’re on vacation this week, borrowing a small, cottage-like house from some amazingly generous friends. It’s a quaint little place with a lovely, relaxed feel to it about 200 metres from the ocean and situated by a lovely creek that provides the sound of flowing water to fall asleep to. Life is much simpler here. … Continue reading The Fact and Fiction of Keeping It Simple

The Secret To Avoiding Drastic Measures

In Canada, spring and summer is forest fire season. If you’ve ever been near one, you know they are at once terrifying and awe inspiring. Their destructive power is not to be underestimated. Square miles of once beautiful forests can be laid to waste in days, along with anything else that happens to live in … Continue reading The Secret To Avoiding Drastic Measures

Four Steps To Make Transitions Easier

Two days ago we had an eleven hour drive followed by a two hour ferry trip and another hour in the car. There were four of us – my wife Kendra, her parents and I. Yes indeed a road trip with the in laws! Apparently this was the source of some humor at our weekly management … Continue reading Four Steps To Make Transitions Easier

Leading Essentially

Shifting the lives of people to the possibility of living and leading essentially