The Business I’m In

• I’m in the change business. My space is the intersection of communication, awareness and direction. My work innovates the (traditional) management consulting, communications and personal development industries.
• I’m also in the beautification business. My space is the intersection of gardens, awareness and art. My professional trade innovates the (traditional) landscaping/gardening industry.

Why

• I’ve always been a change facilitator and creative, autodidact generalist. I was born that way.
• I’ve experienced many challenges in my life, motivating me to find an inner purpose.
• The right teachers and guides were there for me when I was ready to accept them.
• 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, I 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.

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