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”.

The Art of Listening While Speaking

Over my career I have occasionally encountered people who have a fear of public speaking. For those that are affected, it seems as though this is closer to a phobia than it is to a dislike. It is powerful for them. Yet I have seen people overcome it to the extent you cannot tell that … Continue reading The Art of Listening While Speaking

Reflecting on Rewards: Ego or Essential?

I love photography. I love finding the right photos to augment a story almost as much as I love writing them. From a photographer’s perspective reflections are such a “can’t miss” place to point a lens. The other thing I love about reflections is the role their opposite natures play in composing the overall beauty … Continue reading Reflecting on Rewards: Ego or Essential?

Corporate Culture: Do We See People As “It” Or “You”?

It really is incredible how many people we come across in a day. A number of them are very familiar to us, and some of those are incredibly important. Our spouse, our kids, our parents, close friends, etc. After that there is probably a group of people we see most days like our co-workers, parents … Continue reading Corporate Culture: Do We See People As “It” Or “You”?

3 Ways to Get Centered At Work

I spent a lot of this weekend immersed in some deep reading on the topic of emotional intelligence. The way our brains connect between individuals without us really knowing what is happening fascinates me. It’s pretty challenging stuff, and I started getting lost in understanding how this knowledge applied in my engagement with others, how I … Continue reading 3 Ways to Get Centered At Work

Perfect is the Enemy of “Good Enough”

For those of you who have read my posts over the past month or so, you may have noticed that I’ve been exploring a couple of themes. Those have been Geoffrey Moore’s work on core vs. context and the concept of managing our inner board of directors (adapted from Kerry Parson’s work on The Essential … Continue reading Perfect is the Enemy of “Good Enough”

Restructuring Our Internal Board of Directors

In a post I wrote last week, I discussed the concept of our internal board of directors which is responsible for the self-critical internal chatter that most of us experience. The main message of the post is that there are techniques we can employ that will increase our self-awareness of how these internal critics influence our … Continue reading Restructuring Our Internal Board of Directors

Leading Essentially

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