#36: Shea Stewart

Shea Stewart is a partner at Toronto-based tech consulting firm Arctiq. He describes his delight at watching team members flourish and champion the company culture he and his partners fostered through distributed authority and accountability. We talk about what makes a good mentor, Arctiq’s new Dive Bar DevOps Podcast & how improv classes helped him overcome a moment of crisis when presenting at Google Next. He also shares his life-changing experiences at both a Buddhist silent meditation retreat in Thailand and an EvryMan retreat in Montana.

“I can describe one of the experiences I had on the Montana trip: somebody else in my group after spending 5 days with me, describing me to me. This is what they see and this is what they want for you after meeting you for the 5 days you’ve spent together and, I’m not gonna say the first time in my life but for the first time in a long time, I felt SEEN. This is like the depth of seen that you get with your best friend that takes years of development and this person met you for 5 days and you know that they know you and they respect the things that you respect about yourself. And that was quite an emotional and interesting experience.

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SHEA STEWART
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