In this episode of The Max Life Podcast, Patrick Walker reveals why blind spots aren’t flaws—they’re signals. Learn how to work with discomfort, feedback, and altered states to uncover your true edge as a leader and human being.
Guest Bio
Patrick Walker is an accomplished entrepreneur, strategic consultant and coach with over three decades of experience navigating all aspects of starting and growing a business through disruptive change and reinvention in challenging markets, industry upheaval and technological change. As a senior consultant, Patrick consults with leaders at all levels in organizations from
Fortune 500 companies to smaller regional firms, Patrick’s work has been both broad and deep, including strategic consulting, exit and succession planning, attracting and retaining top talent, as well as helping both individuals and organizations to identify, work with, and grow beyond their blind spots – a process necessary in business environments of rapid change and increasing complexity.
As the founder of a digital design and manufacturing company, Patrick wore all the usual entrepreneurial hats, but it is in the areas of individual and team development and growth that he is most keenly focused, and has trained with Integral Coaching Canada, The Neuroleadership Institute, The Center for Applied Rationality, Otto Scharmer, Robert Kegan and Terri O’Fallon.
Patrick’s approach is playful but direct, supportive but challenging, and he is devoted to finding that sweet spot that we all require in order to continue our personal and professional evolution – enough discomfort that we’re sufficiently engaged and open to new ideas and behaviors, but not so much that we are overwhelmed - all in service to healthy transformation and sustainable new outcomes. He also loves to read, study and travel with his wife Jeanne, and also plays music - which he did many years ago on cruise ships for 2 years, right after a season on a crab boat out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, which was between semesters during his studies at Western Washington State University in Elementary Education. He will readily admit to his “checkered past.”
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