About me
I am an experienced systems professional, workplace psychologist and management consultant who writes skill development books for working professionals. I think of college educated working professionals as my audience. I hope that I write in a way that is accessible to anyone who works in an office, or in a factory, or in a laboratory, or in a school, or in a health care facility .... .... .
The Photographs:
I am fascinated by the natural world around us. My spirituality is strongly focused on the natural world. I meditate with a camera, and particularly like close up or macro work. I have been making images for close to 25 years. The digital evolution in photography is giving me the chance to share the way I see the world with others. Like so many others, I have made the switch to digital, and my film cameras have become relics.
Our Family:
I also work and play with horses and dogs. I find them a huge change from working with people. Words, verbal logic, and progressive argument do not work with dogs or horses.
If you push horses too hard, they simply get scared. If you push dogs too hard, they simply drop into pack submission behaviour. Neither gives you their best when they do this. As a result of learning to communicate with them, I have learned a lot about how to more effectively communicate with people.
I live in southwestern Ontario, in the rolling hills of Hillsburgh. Both Lynne and I each have a horse, although we board them off our 3 acre property. Hamish is my Canadian gelding , and Baily is Lynne's Web-Cob-Standard Bred cross mare. We have 4 German Shepherds - Ki, Diatan, Kori and Jett.
The yellow finches are with us at our home and office from late April - early May through the middle of September. Their beauty and energetic behaviour provide us with many hours of summer delight.
Kristen Bruner driving Birchley at the Canadian Carriage Classic in 2002, going through the water hazard on the cross country course.
Kristen drove Lynne's horse Bailey to a number of carriage driving championships in 2004. Bailey had a foal, Beaverwoods Briar, who is now about a year old. Both Bailey and Briar continue to be happy at Kristen's farm near Hillsburgh, Ontario. (Visit Kristen's Beaverwood Farm web site)
I manage a company called Workplace Competence International Limited www.wciltd.com
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The WCI web site contains a number of other things that I have written. If you are interested, follow the link below to the download page on this site. It lists everything that is available on that site. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these documents. So that link is also provided below in case you need it.
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