 By Rick Fullerton | Bio
Earlier this
month, I was away from home for over a week on business. In itself,
this is not a big deal. Lots of people travel more frequently and
farther than I do. Yet for me, this trip was filled with unexpected feelings of gratitude and wonder. At the outset, it was to be a routine work
trip to two cities to conduct seminars at the completion of the MBA
course I teach. What set this apart was the opportunity to be in
Calgary, the home of Canada’s energy sector and fastest-growing city in
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By Rick Fullerton | Bio
I am waiting for our third grandchild to be born. In fact, everyone in
our family and circle of friends is primed for the big event—but none
more so than the mother and father to be. Their lives are about to be
totally transformed when their love, commitment and belief in the
future is expressed in the arrival of ‘baby’. Birth, for most people, is the ultimate miracle of life. So it is
natural that birth is celebrated universally as an act of creation.
Beyond the waiting, the sacrifices, the preparation and the costs,
bringing a child into the world is a symbolic declaration of
possibility like no other.[ Read More]
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By Rick Fullerton | Bio
For much of my life, I have had a private conversation about dying. It
began as a young child, probably triggered by overhearing my parents
talking about people fighting cancer or other scary diseases. When I
was 12 and our family doctor knocked on the schoolroom door, my first
thought was that he had figured out I was going to die. I was shocked
to discover he had come to tell me my father had died of a heart attack
at just 53. I was devastated![ Read More]
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I met Rick when he was working for Canada’s public service. He later
became Deputy Principal for the Canadian Centre for Management
Development and played a key role in transforming the Centre in support
of La Relève and in establishing professional coaching in the federal
public service. Rick is a leadership consultant and Certified
Human Resources Professional, and holds a Ph.D. in organizational
behavior. He currently teaches graduate level courses at Dalhousie
University’s Faculty of Management and the School of Public
Administration, in addition to consulting on high-leverage change
initiatives for international companies and federal agencies and
departments. We share an appreciation of the value of natural
curiosity, quiet reflection and attentive listening. [ Read More]
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