Author: ECMason

  • Where’s the Sweet Spot for Growth and Stretch

    Where’s the Sweet Spot for Growth and Stretch

    As I’m writing playbooks and training material for clients, I keep coming back to this question: where’s the sweet spot for growth and stretch? We all know that mindset and behaviour change don’t happen overnight. It’s a process—one that requires clarity, consistency, and modelling. When leaders embody the desired state in a way that’s natural…

  • Leadership development is an evolution, not an event

    Leadership development is an evolution, not an event

    Today, businesses are operating in a fast-paced, competitive environment where change is constant. With technology advancing at a rate we’ve never experienced before, and people dealing with complex challenges, businesses need leaders who can lead both sound strategy and human culture. Human beings are meaning-makers, we crave predictability, patterns, and for things to make sense.…

  • From control to curiosity

    From control to curiosity

    So, I’ve had a few significant ah-ha moments and paradigm shifts already this year. Which, realistically, are the amalgamation of the learning / reflection / true-self-adventure I’ve been on for a while now. Because that’s how things happen, yeah? You seem to come across things that are important for you when you’re open to receive…

  • Flow feels like magic

    Flow feels like magic

    Flow state can be triggered when seemingly random thoughts align. Or a unique personal connection forms. Or experiencing something wonderous or awe-inspiring. Which then encourages creativity and a joining of concepts. It awakens insight and possibility. Creativity has no bounds. It can’t be contained or captured. It can’t really be harnessed. It’s pure and free.…

  • Being ME

    Being ME

    Hi, I’m a consultant, a (fiction) writer, and a human being.   And I’m practicing being me. Being true to myself and bringing that whole self to work, to family and relationships, to everything in this one precious life.   If I truly believe what I preach / teach / coach… that connection is at the core…