In 2019, I left a 19 year career in Law Enforcement after an unhealthy dose of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety and Insomnia. With very little support from my employer due to a lack of understanding about PTSD and mental health issues, I decided I could no longer ignore and tolerate the impact my career had on my health and family. During my career I’ve seen unacceptable decisions made by leaders due to a lack of understanding, knowledge, training and education in the field of Leadership and Mental Health. Throughout the years, bad leadership cost millions of dollars, reduced performance, created unnecessary conflicts in the workplace, created a “collecting a pay cheque” culture, low employee retention driving up costs in training new employees, low morale and sick leave which lowered productivity, lower productivity translated in loss of profits, mental health issue at all level of the organization. I’ve been studying leadership for 25 years and decided that I can help people thrive and make a positive impact on the world by creating incredible leaders and an unstoppable work culture that increases profit, productivity, morale, employee retention while decreasing conflict and health issues in the workplace. This year I have decided to redirect my energy to helping individuals and families going through physical, emotional and mental trauma. Although I cannot divulge much information at the moment, I will however be pivoting away from Absolute Leadership. Instead, I will use my knowledge of Leadership in my next future project and “walk the talk”. Any and all information and documents concerning Absolute Leadership already written will remain on my website for anyone to access for free. I will also keep on writing and providing lessons and material on Leadership free of charge. I will also expand my web page to include a section called Life Philosophies For Relentless Happiness. The section will cover my ways, theories and philosophies to live a happy, fulfilled and peaceful life with meaning. My wife and I went through hell and back dealing with physical, emotional and mental trauma, we developed tools and strategies to survive and thrive. I will share what we’ve learned through my web page and social media. As previously mentioned, I am working on a separate project to help victims of trauma and their family by providing the tools and technology to bring them back to, again, a happy, fulfilled and peaceful life. They may never be the same, but once they understand their issues, they can become a better version of who they used to be. My methodology is simple and called the 5Rs: Recover, Restore, Recharge, Retrain, Reinforce. That project should be released in the upcoming months and I will be able to release more information. Stay tuned!
2000 - Join the Parliamentary Protective Services. 2004 - Joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a patrol officer. Suffered Trauma during my duties. 2007 - Transferred to Federal Investigations in the Customs & Excise Section. My wife Kelly, who was also an RCMP police officer, was a passenger in a police car going to an emergency call when the driver lost control of the police car going 190 km/h and rolled the car numerous times. The driver was ok, unfortunately, the passenger side of the car was crushed and my wife suffered brain damage and a neck injury that is plaguing her to this day. 2011 - Promoted to Corporal to the Parliament Hill Security Unit. 2014 - First Burnout and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). 2015 - Back to work and transferred to Sensitive and International Investigations (SII). 2016 - Assigned to create and maintain the newly formed training position at SII. Second Burnout and suffering from PTSD. 2019 - Retirement. 2019 to now - The Journey Passed Recovery Into Performance.
