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”.

Dealing With Our Internal Board of Directors

In my coaching practice one of the concepts I often work with clients on is how to manage what I call their “Board of Directors”. Others refer to them as the “old tapes” that play in their heads, perhaps confronted by a problem or questioned on their work product. I’ve learned to refer to them … Continue reading Dealing With Our Internal Board of Directors

Lessons Learned While Driving This Week

It wasn’t a normal week of driving, the kind where I pull out of my garage, tune in to my favourite radio station and engage the autopilot for a trip which I won’t remember more than 30 seconds of once I park in the same spot I always do underground at the office.

What’s It Like To Be Illiterate?

One of things most of us take for granted is being literate. I certainly do – it terrifies me to think that I might not be able to read and therefore absorb information and learn. We’ve been travelling in Spain for the last two plus weeks and it has been a period that in which basic … Continue reading What’s It Like To Be Illiterate?

Exercising Good Judgment

I wrote a post a couple of weeks back (The Cost Of Being Judgmental) that was in essence about how being “judgmental” interferes with our ability to learn and discover. In that post, a blogging colleague that I respect a lot (Diana Schwenk at talktodiana) made a very astute comment that really got me thinking … Continue reading Exercising Good Judgment

The Joys And Challenges Of A New Experience

As I write this post I’m sitting on a plane heading off on vacation in Spain. I haven’t spent a lot of time in Spain, so I’m treating it as a brand new adventure. I’m with my wife Kendra, and we have a lovely itinerary planned through six cities/regions and two countries.

The Cost of Being Judgmental

I’m sure you’re all familiar with the sort of email that arrives from a friend or a colleague passing on an interesting article or an interesting video. I’m never sure what I’m going to get when they show up, although often the person they come from will have some clue as to content! 🙂

Leading Essentially

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