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”.

Cleaning Out The Attic

In my last post I described how I was on my way back to school to become certified as a coach. Not a sports coach, but a transitions and leadership coach. I’ve chosen the Hudson Institute of Coaching in Santa Barbara because of the strong recommendations I received as well as the caliber of people … Continue reading Cleaning Out The Attic

Back to School

As I write this I’m aboard an airplane on my way to do something I haven’t done in 31 years. There are probably some things that I’ve been away from longer but they are few and far between. As I think about it, I haven’t played a league game of hockey in over 40 years. … Continue reading Back to School

Breathe

2 AM and I’m still awake, writing a song If I get it all down on paper, it’s no longer inside of me, Threatening the life it belongs to. As those of you who have been following for a while know , I take a lot of inspiration for ideas from music. Except in this … Continue reading Breathe

Insurmountable Opportunity

I saw a very interesting and moving quote the other day. It was from Helen Keller. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Spoken by others, this quote may not have … Continue reading Insurmountable Opportunity

Do The Hokey Pokey

Driving home from Vancouver Island we see a lot of vehicles. Some rather ordinary and not noticed other than safety awareness, some uniquely attracting eyes and attention. One of these vehicles had a number of bumper stickers,

What’s Trying to Emerge?

We took a drive up Vancouver Island several days ago and came across an interesting display in a seaside park. It was an art display of sorts, but the first thing we came across was