Ian Bradley

Before specializing in executive coaching and workplace problems, I was a clinical psychologist with stints in mental hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto as well as Montreal. I worked extensively with both severely disturbed patients with diagnoses such as schizophrenia and bipo...
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Ive just read Why Work Sucks by Ressler and Thompson, the ex-Best Buyers, whose resonating book title describes their Result Only Work Environment- ROWE. For those not up on the latest business buzz, the book takes to task our underlying assumptions about time and work. Briefly summarized here is th...
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The recent expulsion of a computer science student, Ahmed Al-Khabaz from a local Montreal college has gone viral. Ahmed apparently found a flaw in a student information system used by the provinces collegians. First reporting the flaw in the coding to the school, and then several days later testing ...
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For many of my clients, learning starts with a problem not always a crisis but a problem that brings enough distress that they seek my services in executive coaching. Two all-stars of IO Psychology, Bennis and Thomas have referred to these transforming events as crucibles. Perhaps like the chemistry...
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Many of the executives that I see in my Montreal practice for executive coaching talk about their hectic days. As I listen to their stories, I am quietly asking myself a key question Are they in some measure able to control the stream of tasks, or is the onslaught occurring without a filtration or b...
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