TRENT MASON | Flying Planes, Becoming Agile & Calisthenics: Mere Mortals Conversation #37

Trent Mason is a certified executive coach and enterprise agilist, an individual who leverages systems thinking and strengths based approaches to foster a lean/agile culture, valuing people, relationships, collaboration and continuous improvement.

In his own words:

"My practice is best described as a humanistic approach to agile. I focus on coaching ‘the self’ and how we make conscious choices to create the right environment and conditions for performance. At a system level, it’s about agile for the context in which you operate, empathy for circumstance and history, and using strength-based approaches to agile evolutions."

In this conversation we started off with Trent's origins in engineering and flying as a pilot, his transition to working at the intersection with business and IT, how he now helps organisations foster an Agile mindset and topped it off with his routines, meaningful books and the art of keeping stats on yourself!

As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:

0:00 - Introduction

1:15 - What got Trent into flying

4:01 - Choosing his path

6:00 - Noticing the issue with business miscommunication

10:05 - From traditional to Agile

14:40 - Trent's current goal

21:15 - Do businesses know they need help?

23:10 - The shift in weight

25:40 - Calisthenics

28:30 - General Life

34:32 - Favourite Books and a Challenge to the mind

40:32 - Trent's Mantra and goals

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trent-mason-356621103/

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