In his 50 years as an entrepreneur, Jim has experienced success and failure, and he has discovered that great learning comes from both.
He is a naturalist with a Master's Degree in Ecology to support his seven decades of nature observation. As a forester, farmer, construction worker and business person, he has considerable experience in how things are built — and how they grow naturally. As a student, practitioner and teacher of mindfulness-awareness meditation, he knows inner leadership work.
For the past 30 years, Windhorse Farm has been his practice ground: in business, in community and in the rocks and flowing water of a pristine forested landscape. As a teacher, mentor, coach and organizational change artist, Jim's work now focusses on leadership and culture change with individuals, and with a variety of groups and enterprises. The particular flavour of his work arises out of his experience in forming — and being formed by — Windhorse Farm (windhorsefarm.org).
He is a naturalist with a Master's Degree in Ecology to support his seven decades of nature observation. As a forester, farmer, construction worker and business person, he has considerable experience in how things are built — and how they grow naturally. As a student, practitioner and teacher of mindfulness-awareness meditation, he knows inner leadership work.
For the past 30 years, Windhorse Farm has been his practice ground: in business, in community and in the rocks and flowing water of a pristine forested landscape. As a teacher, mentor, coach and organizational change artist, Jim's work now focusses on leadership and culture change with individuals, and with a variety of groups and enterprises. The particular flavour of his work arises out of his experience in forming — and being formed by — Windhorse Farm (windhorsefarm.org).
PHILOSOPHY
Jim's philosophy of leadership, based on 45 years of formal leadership training and practice, is very simple. Every individual, and every organization, is fundamentally healthy and whole, knowing best how to work with their own issues — often with a little help from their mentors, coaches and insightful friends.
Everyone is a leader, accountable for leading their own lives and shouldering the responsibilities of their unique roles within their family, community and workplace. In other words, everyone is the head and heart of their own personal organization and it naturally follows that everyone is a leader, from their own place, in the organizations they work within.
Society is a complex interdependent web with each person at a unique nexis. No role is more important than any other role, and each role has its particular responsibilities, delights and painful edges.
Everyone is a leader, accountable for leading their own lives and shouldering the responsibilities of their unique roles within their family, community and workplace. In other words, everyone is the head and heart of their own personal organization and it naturally follows that everyone is a leader, from their own place, in the organizations they work within.
Society is a complex interdependent web with each person at a unique nexis. No role is more important than any other role, and each role has its particular responsibilities, delights and painful edges.
HOW CAN YOU WORK WITH JIM?
Jim, often together with one or more of his colleagues, hosts and supports clients through a wealth of proven methods of practice at each stage in their journey. They draw on Eastern and Western psychology, neuroscience, natural-systems ecology, and the latest research into why and how enterprises succeed in accomplishing their purposes — or fail to thrive. Always, they illuminate the interdependence among genuine individual leadership, organizational culture, business success and societal benefit. Often, the most dynamic and revealing learnings are from the natural world.
Jim will be happy to have a conversation with you about your requirements and his resources. If there is a fit, you can proceed to contract — either for yourself individually (leadership coaching) or for your organization (team leadership development and organizational culture change).
Please email jim@nothingmissing.ca
Jim will be happy to have a conversation with you about your requirements and his resources. If there is a fit, you can proceed to contract — either for yourself individually (leadership coaching) or for your organization (team leadership development and organizational culture change).
Please email jim@nothingmissing.ca
