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Ed Percival and his Cayman legacy
This week in Cayman I find myself musing on Perspectives, on Legacy, on Context, all as I am here with my own Context this week of CONNECTION. After two meetings early in the week with a current client and a past client, I find myself thinking of the legacy of the great Ed Percival on Cayman and how he shifted Perspective and Context for a significant number of Cayman’s leaders.
Ed was my greatest mentor in life, a literal and figurative giant of a man. He passed away on June 25, 2015, and hundreds came to his funeral to talk, to share the huge impact he had for them and so many others.
Ed is honoured by me in a small way on this site through the #BeMoreYou page on this site, as this simple phrase was the distillation to the beautiful simplicity of his many decades of learning around coaching and human behaviour. What he wanted for all of us was to be more ourselves.
I met Ed shortly after I joined Shirlaws as a new coach, but my first real interaction with him was during a group discussion at a Shirlaws coaches conference in the UK in 2012. My natural big energy and enthusiasm saw me talk over an idea he had and I clearly upset him. I later bumped him in a hallway at…
