Who

About Mary Wynne-Wynter

Who

I'm @mwyn on Twitter: Paradox Huntress. Flower Whisperer. Certified by The Field. Self-wired for Intimacy. Poised for Matriarchy Rising. I Row. I Tango.

My Distinctive Capabilities

  • Asking the right questions
  • Listening between the lines
  • Connecting with people at soul level
  • Sensing/recognizing trends, shifts, blocks, patterns
  • Spatial visualization
  • Synthesizing to find the essence
  • Creating visuals for understanding
  • Seeing the solution in the problem
  • Minimalism
  • Going the other way
  • Putting the right elements and right frameworks together
  • Finding the best teachers and guides
  • Physical alignment and rhythm with experience and environment
  • Resourcefulness

    The Business I'm In

    • I'm in the change business. My space is the intersection of business, awareness and direction. My professional services innovate the (traditional) management consulting, communications and personal development industries.
    • I'm in the design business. My space is the intersection of gardens, awareness and art. My professional trade innovates the (traditional) landscaping/gardening industry.

    Current Favorite Activities

    • Rowing
    • Tango
    • Hiking
    • Strength training
    • Yoga and meditation
    • Hanging out with kids

    Why

    I've always been a change facilitator and creative, autodidact generalist. I didn't always know it though. I was given many challenges to help me find an inner purpose. I didn't always pay attention.
  • When I couldn't take it any more the right teachers and guides were right there for me. I was usually, but not always, a good learner.
  • I never aspired to a management career because I liked producing and creating more than I liked managing people who produced and created. I think screenwriter/producer David E. Kelley once said something similar. I was always interested in leadership.

    • My Brand

    I started RedShift in 1998. I was driven by my desire for independence and also by my intuition that massive change was coming and that I was meant to help people and business respond to it in wholly new ways. RedShift has morphed over the past decade but the core philosophy and brand qualities have not. I chose the name because I'm interested in cosmology and metaphysics. Redshift, associated with waves and space expansion seemed an excellent metaphor for change. In a nutshell, what I do is help people with personal, professional and organizational change, so that they can grow, take risks, succeed and prosper in a world that's increasingly complex, conceptual and connected. To this end I've designed a suite of personal and business change programs, write a blog and participate and share learning through social networks and communities.

    Flower Whisperer

    In 2009 I followed an intuition to work outdoors, at least part-time, and preferably around beautiful flowers and gardens. Almost immediately a job showed up from a grower who needed a garden center merchandiser who could work independently for a big-box store client. Flower gardening has always been a passion, the merchandise was beautiful to work with, the position required an entrepreneurial approach and I had the strength and stamina for the physical work because of my athleticism. But what I'd not realized was how starved was my soul for trade and artisan-ship. The work in no way detracted from my professional service business but actually complemented it, stimulating my creativity, focus and commitment. My best ideas and models were hatched while I was proverbially "slinging plants"! That creativity resulted in the launch of RedShift Gardens by Mary Wynne-Wynter, Flower Whisperer in the spring of 2011.

    Notes and trivia

  • I hold an IGFA world record.
  • I co-owned a machine shop, superfinishing and advanced materials, in Rhode Island. I had a plan to do a high-tech jewelry line as an offshoot and saved a piece of scrap titanium for many years as a reminder.
  • As controller ran all the ERP and accounting for an international machine-tool company on AT&T 8 MHz DOS PC, 256kb of RAM, 72 MB hard drive, using SuperCalc and RealWorld Software. I designed foreign exchange hedge programs that in some years doubled profit.
  • I spent 18 years getting an undergraduate degree and got my MBA in one year. Had a business plan for a cocoa shell (coir) plant mulch business but went into Web strategy consulting instead.
  • I rowed at Henley Royal Regatta in a boat named Octopussy.
  • Birth order.I'm the oldest of eight.
  • I spent $3k for Oracle Architect training/certification and never used it.
    • Had a passion for growing hybrid roses in the early 90's.
  • In 1972 I bought a brand new 1971 Subaru for $1650 the year of the dock strikes. My boyfriend got his for $1450.
  • I was introduced to a lifelong love of jazz in the early 70's listening to WBRU 360 degree black experience in sound. Its now mostly a rap program. I continued my jazz education with Ron Della Chiesa's Music America program on WGBH. I think the world's best jazz station is WBGO Newark.
  • Saw Bob Marley at Harvard Stadium in 1979. Now I run the same stadium for cross-training.
  • Became a mom at 19 and grandmother at 50 - my greatest joys and blessings.
  • Drove a Kawasaki 500 Mach IV.
  • Did Crash-B Sprints three times before coming to my senses.
  • Made my first web site in 1994.
  • In a Web 1.0 job I was given a bad performance review for not being enough like Ally McBeal. I like to think I was more like Murphy Brown. I had fun making this [DDET "my getting fired story" comic]A comic about getting fired[/DDET]
  • Switched to Mac in 2005, starting out with a Mini. Its still flawless and used as a music server.

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