Creating a More Harmonic World
Through Coaching, Teaching, Mindfulness and Music
“My purpose in life is to create more harmony in the world.”
~Brian Lowell French
Hi Folks, Welcome to my site. I provide coaching and teaching on topics of leadership, coaching, diversity, sustainability, mindfulness, well-being, and purpose-finding. I am a philosopher, author, poet, musician and mindfulness-teacher who focuses on creating positive environments where people can be inspired to reach their full purpose in life.
I am the author of Harmonic Leadership – Leading with Inclusive Mindful Caring, which I give as a free gift to the world so you can become an inclusive, mindful caring leader who creates a life-giving environment for all people within your circle of care.
Please reach out if you are interested in having me work with you in the areas of coaching, teaching and speaking engagements. I’m also available to appear as a guest on your podcast or educational webinar. I have a heart for charity and provide discounted (and sometimes free) engagements for non-profits/NGO’s and those whose purpose is aligned with the core mission of creating a more harmonic world and addressing the sustainability needs of the earth and all life on the planet.
Coaching
Group and Individual Coaching to discover your purpose and reach the greatness that is within you.
I am an IAC-Certified Coach through the International Association of Coaching, where I served on the Board of Governors and led the Sustainability Committee for many years. I provide group-coaching and individual-coaching to guide people and teams to grow and reach their potential.
When working with you, I can utilize a number of industry-leading psychometric assessments to determine your strengths and challenges, and then work with you to increase your strengths and overcome the challenges so your leadership is perceived as life-giving.
The collaborative approach focuses on how to work together to seek the greater good, so you can have an even greater, positive impact in the world.
Coaching Focus Areas
When working with you as a coach, my primary goal is to meet you where you are, and help you get to where you want to be.
I’m qualified to coach in any area of professional or personal life to meet your needs, and there are some specific coaching areas where I focus.
Leadership
Coaching
Guidance on increasing leadership capabilities to increase your positive impact as a leader in all aspects of work and life.
Team
Coaching
Building the team through coaching the group to build familiarity, understanding, trust, and teamwork to reach the point of strengthening.
Sustainability Coaching
Developing capabilities of leading through the lens of sustainability, CSR and ESG to increase the social impact of the organization.
Introversion Coaching
Specifically designed for leaders identifying as Introverts to develop techniques and strategies for successfully navigating within the world of work.
Neurodiversity Coaching
Coaching specifically for people identifying as neurodiverse to provide deeper perspective in utilizing your unique strengths.
Nature
Coaching
Coaching in and through nature to increase mindful connection and develop a centered, balanced approach to life and work.
Coaching Testimonials
“Is there a 100 on this rating scale. Brian “gets me” and is so good at drawing me out and helping me see myself through the eyes of others. I have grown immensely through his coaching.”
HR Vice President – Financial Industry
“This was the best and most impactful professional coaching experience I have participated in. I would highly recommend Brian and his approach to others.”
Divisional VP of Sales – Pharmaceutical Industry
“I entered into this engagement with the goal of increasing my self awareness and identifying blind spots that may derail my continued development and success. Brian was instrumental in helping me achieve these goals.”
Regional Medical Director – Veterinary Medicine Industry
“The coaching 1:1 I found to be immensely valuable. Brian allowed me to deviate from the agenda when I needed, adjusted the approach to prioritize parts of the plan that would help me now instead of being rigid in approach to maximize the value. Being able to bounce ideas off my coach and he always bring it back to the plan and help me to focus on the problem at hand proved powerful for me. Having the flexibility to emphasize the right lessons at the right time as I had real world experience to draw on further drove the points home. I truly would keep my coach forever.”
Operations VP – Financial Industry
“I could not have hoped for a better coach than Brian. On a personal level he was able to connect with me and helped me identify several areas of improvement and make plans to ensure success. This engagement brought to the forefront some areas of concern I have had for some time and helped me understand that we are all innately different and that is not necessarily a bad thing. Through my discussions with Brian and the activities we worked on I have gradually gained more confidence that I can become more than I had previously thought.”
Chief Financial Officer – Medical Equipment Industry
“It was a terrific and, definitely, timely experience on many levels. I feel I have experienced measurable growth through this process. The exercise gave me an opportunity take a deep introspective look at myself as well as putting together an actionable plan to improve areas of weakness. Truth be told, I typically struggle a bit with personal growth training/coaching as it always seems to rely more on theory than practical application but this time it was different.”
IT Senior Director – Energy Industry
Teaching
Engaging | Education | Enlightening
Leadership Teaching Topics
Class sessions are typically 2 hours and are very interactive with discussion and class activities. They can be held in-person or virtually.
The Trust Triangle
Creating understanding of how trust is viewed by different people and the connection to a person’s values, and learning to build deeper trust with all.
Mindful Caring
Learning the Balanced Caring Model of Care for the Others, Care for the Group, Care for the Work, and Care for the Self, in equal measure.
Song of Diversity
Creating your own unique song of diversity and finding the beauty in other people’s songs to increase inclusion.
Positive Influence
Discovering the path to positive influence to guide outcomes and reach the greater good in a situation.
Enhancing Leadership Presence
Considering how your leadership presence is perceived and enhancing it to increase your positive impact.
Motivate Greatness
Discovering what drives your motivation and drains your motivation to better focus on the drivers to reach your greatness.
Leadership Storytelling
Learn techniques to develop your own unique style of storytelling to increase the meaning and impact of your leadership presentations.
Create Focus
Finding the path to focusing on what is most important in life to accomplish the things that are most meaningful for yourself and for others.
Custom programs can be developed to meet your organization’s unique needs. I also provide long-form learning programs with multi-day offerings or year-long multi-faceted learning experiences.
Leadership Program Testimonials
“Everything you knew about leadership, forget… Time to relearn.”
VP of Business Development – Sign Industry
“Great class, great interaction with a diverse group of leaders! A ton of experience and talent in the room. What a great opportunity.”
Operations Director – Hospitality Industry
“Everybody is unique and requires different leadership approaches. Empathy is a huge key to that. I keep my workbook open to the RESOLVE page.”
VP of Operations – Construction Industry
“Patience and Empathy. It taught me that everyone’s opinion matters, regardless of what it is.”
Senior Director – Restaurant Industry
“Made me more intentional about looking for ways to mentor, develop and provide teaching moments. Now, even during a short phone call, I ask myself, how can this conversation be used to develop this person.”
Sr. Manager – Restaurant Industry
“It truly made me take a step back and re-evaluate myself as a leader, but also those on my team. It helped me learn how I can better adapt to meet their needs and have more productive conversations and better encourage to use their strengths.”
Director – Facilities Industry
The class sessions can be delivered in-person or remotely via MS Teams (or on your collaboration platform.
Mindfulness
As a certified Mindfulness Teacher, I provide mindfulness sessions for groups and mindfulness coaching sessions for individuals. I primarily provide these sessions in corporate environments as part of Wellness Programs. I utilize science-based mindfulness exercises so they are compatible with people of all backgrounds, cultures, and religions.
The intent of the corporate-based sessions is to help busy professionals with techniques on how to manage stress so they can increase focus on the areas of work and life that are most important.
You can find a limited number of recorded meditations and mindful music recordings on the Insight Timer site.
Insight Timer – Brian Lowell French
Music
I’ve been writing music and performing since my teenage years, and have spent time as both a professional musician, though now I consider myself more of a hobbyist. I do occasionally record and post music for download from the major music sites, but I primarily offer music through my other work as I infuse it into my leadership teaching and mindfulness sessions.
Apple Music – Brian Lowell French
Insight Timer – Brian Lowell French
Harmonic Leadership
Create Greatness in Self and Others Through Inclusive, Mindful Caring
My book, Harmonic Leadership, was released in 2022, and it was the culmination of my career as a leadership coach and facilitator. The book is a guide on how to become a Harmonic Leader, who leads with inclusive, mindful caring.
A Harmonic Leader creates an environment where every person feels fully valued, fully motivated, and fully cared for. Imagine being in that kind of environment… we all deserve to be.
Harmonic Leadership is for those who want to be a more positive, inclusive and mindful caring leader, manager, team-member, coach, teacher, community-member, parent, spouse/partner, and friend. It’s for those who want to make a positive impact on the world. Everyone in the world has the opportunity to be a leader and make the world a better place. So, this book is for everyone.
The key to developing as a leader is to increase self-awareness. This book provides the key through the many reflection activities, self-assessments, guides, and models that will be used to unlock greatness.
The PDF version of the book is provided as a free gift to the world.