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 Kangaroo’s Tail (The Learning Zone Part Two)

We think of kangaroos as cute creatures hopping around with little baby joeys sticking out of their mom’s pouch, and its true that their pouch is their most famous feature. But these cuddly looking critters are also fearsome fighters when attacked, and it is their tail that they count on the most when they are … Continue reading The Kangaroo’s Tail (The Learning Zone Part Two)

Finding Our Learning Zone

I have to admit that I don’t usually worry about being comfortable. Life has been pretty good to us. Any problems we have are largely “first world problems” that the greatest majority of the world would happily take on along with the life we have been blessed with. My wife Kendra is really good at … Continue reading Finding Our Learning Zone

Give Yourself an “A”

Has anybody read the book by Rosamund and Ben Zander called the Art of Possibility? Better yet, has anyone watched any of Ben’s YouTube videos of him giving presentations of the principles of the book using music (his day job is Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic) as a medium for the message? They are brilliant … Continue reading Give Yourself an “A”

Good Enough?

I’m a big Jim Collins fan. For those of you who don’t know Jim’s work he is an exceptional researcher of business drivers paired with business results, and he has had a large impact on business thinking around the world. In his second book “Good to Great”, the one that launched him into the sphere of … Continue reading Good Enough?

I Need To Eat

Kendra and I were travelling this week for a really great family event. My side of the family doesn’t get together very often, and this one was special as we joined with a branch of our family that we hadn’t had contact with for 28 years. On top of that my kid sister Karen had … Continue reading I Need To Eat

Lost In Time

Isn’t it interesting how our pace of life and wanes in cycles like the moon in its passage around the earth. Lately it seems to me like there isn’t enough time to fit everything in. As a rule we always seem to have some time pressure with work, home duties and other events. But it … Continue reading Lost In Time

Leading Essentially

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