Spreadsheets and Icefalls: Why I Started PCG

There is a magic in being yourself. I've found pleasure in combining the Sean who loves big ideas, businesses, travel goals, and growth, with the Sean who loves a plan, something detailed and combed through with a fine tooth, every aspect polished.

Do you want to do a 45-day ice cap crossing in Patagonia? You’ll learn romantic and bold truths. The real experience of: “If I push through challenges, discomfort, and doubt, then I will be able to see and experience things beyond my wildest dreams.”

In my case, I was sitting on a slope ten days’ walk from the nearest person, watching an icefall miles away across a white desert of snow. I was watching giant hunks of glacial ice fall off the cliff, then puffs of silent smoke in the distance as they crashed, and then, like thunder, I heard the clap five seconds later.

But what was behind this magical scene? Well, pouring over dozens of weather reports, meticulously weighing powdered mashed potatoes, creating detailed budgets for paying gauchos (Chilean Cowboys) to help shuttle our gear to the glacier’s edge, and dozens of repetitions of a 25-step crevasse rescue procedure.

That is what I am looking to create with PCG. The combination of meaningful and aspirational goals, with planning and results-based actions.

What I am offering: The breakthrough when a shy person finally starts sharing their ideas and revolutionizes how your team does business. A tripling in productivity and happiness when the two staff who’ve been at odds for months take a step toward empathy and compassion for each other. A leader who is able to work on their most ambitious ideas after building real trust in their team and freeing up the time usually spent putting out fires.

Let’s get after it. I promise to be your friend who gets you to believe in that dream you’ve been holding back on, and also shows up clocked with a spreadsheet of every flight price, currency exchange, and essential local phrase.