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Jim Manton

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Executive Coach and Life Transitions Expert

Jim Manton Quick Facts

Main Areas: Executive Coaching, Career and Life Transitions, Talent Selection, Assessments, Business Owner Advisory Services
Best Sellers: The Secret of Transitions was voted one of the Best Business Books 2008 by CEO Refresher
Career Focus: Accelerating Success for Business Owners & Leaders

During his 30 years in the business world, Executive Coach Jim Manton has served not only as a president in a Fortune 500 company, but also as the CEO of several fast-growing entrepreneurial firms. Jim knows the thrill of adding more than $1 billion in sales a year--as well as managing the disappointment of a major shortfall. From start-up to reinvention, he has been there and done it.

Jim started his career at Johnson & Johnson and was president of his own marketing company by age 26. He later sold the company to join what is now a division of General Motors and Volvo.

During his career, he forged vital alliances with leading companies such as Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Compaq--leading to his recognition as one of the high-tech industry’s Top 50 Executives by Smart magazine. Jim is active in the community, having served as a volunteer and board member for Big Brothers Big Sisters, the president of the Enterprise Network, and an instructor in Responsible Leadership at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He currently leads two ceo forums, one for senior executives and another for CEOs and business owners.

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Check out Jim's status quo defying blog at www.mantonadvisory.com/blog

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Visit our Blog and Transition Now

Jim Manton's Transition Now blog is for those who want to go beyond status quo and refuse to settle for ordinary. Here's a sample blog post...

Slapped Awake by an Angel

She was a messenger sent from heaven. I’ve found that these messengers aren’t very subtle, and the message is almost always the same: “You’ve got something in you that still needs healing, bub. Wake up!

I met her eight years ago in my first ever coaching clinic, a three day workshop for people considering a coaching career. I had just left the corporate world and was still uncertain if not insecure about becoming a coach. What would my former colleagues say?

We were assigned a role-playing situation in which she, playing stranger sitting next to me at the airport, and I, playing a coach, strike up a conversation that results in a coaching engagement. Oh lord, how I hated role playing back then.

It went something like this…

Her: “Hi, headed to St. Louis?”

Me: “Yes, on business. You?”

Her: “Me too. I own a manufacturing business, and we’re backlogged on some orders for our biggest customer. I’ve got to smooth things over or we’ll lose them. What about you?”

Me: “I’m a coach. Most recently a Fortune 500 president, my experience includes blah, blah, blah.”

After listening to me go on-and - on, she breaks her role playing and makes a gag-me gesture pointing a finger to the back of her throat.

Her: “Just *!#$% stop, ok? When are you going to find out about me? How can you ever help me if you don’t stop telling me how great you are? I could never work with someone like you.”

Rather direct feedback, wouldn’t you say? It was not only direct, but it was something I needed to hear. What a gift. I love the way it all works. She was a perfect messenger. I doubt anyone else in the workshop would have been as triggered as she was by my egotistical performance.

Recently laid off after 25 years of hard work and loyalty, she had had her fill of arrogant, self-centered senior executives who she blamed for her situation. Funny, I’m pretty sure she felt better just getting that off her chest, but I couldn’t say the same.

But after recovering from that embarrassing scene, I woke up. The messenger had done her job. By seeing how she was victimizing herself by blaming some faceless senior executives for her plight, I could see how I was victimizing myself. I saw that I was being held back by clinging to an old identity. That was the moment I transitioned. I let go of the past and stepped into the future.

My new future was created as soon as I had the courage to say “I am a coach” based on absolutely nothing. My past accomplishments were irrelevant. It’s called taking a stand. Don’t believe it? Try it yourself. Declare who you are, commit to action immediately, never stop improving, and never stop believing. Think about it. If you truly commit and never stop improving, what could stop you from succeeding…other than yourself?

Getting Started With Jim Manton

Typically, a consulting firm shares its knowledge, while an executive coach focuses on helping people discover their own wisdom. At Manton Advisory Services, we incorporate elements of both strategies--an essential way of creating business success, particularly during a transitional period. Because if you aren’t getting the results you want, behavior change isn’t enough: Extraordinary results require extraordinary thinking. That is what transition coaching is all about. To schedule a complimentary coaching session and assessment, send an email to jim@mantonadvisory.com or call (602) 368-6270.