Mary Wynne-Wynter
About Mary Wynne-Wynter (@mwyn)
I’m Mary Wynne-Wynter and I’m the person behind the RedShift Professional Services web site, the RedShift blog: Creating Natural Influence and the @mwyn twitter account.
I’m in the change business. I guess I always have been, but its only in the past 15 years that I’ve been aware of it, the past 4 years that I’ve been clear about it, and the past 2 years that I realize I love it.
Of all my past, present and future titles, I think change facilitator suits me best although I’m also partial to creative, autodidact generalist.
You can read read more about the evolution of my professional services firm RedShift on the About and Overview pages – but let me take a moment to give you:
I’m a baby boomer and happily living the life of a digital nomad (and frequent housesitter) based in Cambridge MA.
I’m a seasoned life and business veteran, single and have a large, extended family, every one of who are most important to me.
I’m a solo professional services provider and I’ve had a full-time practice since 1999 when I left my last real job. My space is the intersection of business, self-awareness and life direction.
My services intersect the management consulting, communications and personal development industries.
I work with people of all ages but stand for the BGB/Boomer-Geezer Bonanza, defined by Tom Peters, as a huge opportunity in the “rapidly aging universe”.
As far back as I can remember I’ve had enormous curiosity about the universe and the people in it. I strongly relate to this video of Seth Godin speaking on the power of
‘curiosity’ from Nic Askew on Vimeo.
In addition to this curiosity about the biggest possible things imaginable, I wanted and still do want…more. Here’s a video I relate to on every level
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 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.
Bigger Games
I was fortunate to attend The Bigger Game, a wonderful leadership and innovation workshop. Although I’d already begun developing my own model and frameworks, I’d not considered any businesses outside or beyond RedShift…until then. But since then I’ve realized that Bigger Games accelerate and expand my business. Three follow, as well as a video that lends itself to The Bigger Game. I don’t think of Bigger Games as future projects. When you find one, or when it finds you, all you do is start living up to it and not worry about the ways and means through which it will take form.
Personal
I’m a champion master rower and can be found most very early mornings on the Charles River, rowing, racing, training, and tracking the competition. Additionally, rowing provides me with great metaphor, ideas and inspiration for change.
Notes about me, by me
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.
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.
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
Switched to Mac in 2005, starting out with a Mini. Its still flawless and used as a music server.
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