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”.

Stranger In The House And Other Unfounded Fears

This weekend has been long-awaited by me. The author of one of my favorite blogs (let’s call her LE) who also happens to be a coaching client has arrived in Calgary from her home overseas. We had never laid eyes on each other until last night when I picked her up from the Greyhound terminal. Earlier … Continue reading Stranger In The House And Other Unfounded Fears

Darwin and Me: 3 Steps For Managing The Consequences of Evolution

The role of a coach is to help clients bring clarity to their plans and lives, and a big part of that is helping to build self-awareness. It is a fundamental belief of mine that a coach cannot do this well without a continuous practice of cultivating ones own self-awareness.

Three Ways To Create Stronger Connections

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity … and your own. I came across this impactful quote from Rev. Murray Powell in my reading recently. In fact I’ve been thinking about it for months, and it has caused me to contemplate its deeper meaning. At one level, supporting those who are homeless and … Continue reading Three Ways To Create Stronger Connections

Keeping Things Simple: 4 Thoughts For Navigating The Every Day Path

There is an interesting short series on Netflix called “Cooked”. It is a four episode look at the history of human cooking, and in particular the impact of the hectic pace of our society on our diets, because fewer people are making food for themselves. I’m a bit of a foodie, and there are not many days in … Continue reading Keeping Things Simple: 4 Thoughts For Navigating The Every Day Path

Five Ways To Change Your World (and hopefully the world overall)

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank One of my quirks is that I like to start each morning with a cup of coffee and the puzzle page from the local newspaper. The quote above was the answer to the “Decodaquote” puzzle … Continue reading Five Ways To Change Your World (and hopefully the world overall)

Why Do We Sweat The Small Stuff?

Sometime in the ‘90’s there was a self-help book that may be familiar to many of you – Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff by Richard Carlson. I have to admit I never read it, but I feel like I have based on the number of conversations I’ve had where the title was the core theme. … Continue reading Why Do We Sweat The Small Stuff?

Leading Essentially

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