This is more than just a call to better business... this is a call to BEING extra-ordinary- in our workAND in our lives.

In these pages you will notice not much separation of business from life, of work from play. The same factors that bring success to our life, are the same factors that bring success to our work. In fact, when we separate our work from our lives, from who we are, we are less puproseful, less passionate and less successful in both, ironically. This is why the 7Cs are so effective @work, @home AND @school - they are based on universal principles of the power of becoming all that we can be, of becoming whole and aligned with our purpose.

One secret of success, therefore, is learning to integrate and align our unique gift and our passion with our work. Life is about doing work that is aligned with what we were born to do, whatever that is for each of us.

When our passion and our work are aligned, we do our most brilliant work- for ourselves and for our industry. Passionate alignment is a secret for business engagement, performance and success. It is a key to achieving sustainable levels of employee engagement, retention, innovation, and, of course, profitabilty in work of value!

"It is my privilege and joy to coach senior level leaders and organisations through high stake corporate challenges. I love helping teams build leadership and organisations build capacity. I take my clients to sea and meet them in the boardroom. Both are great classrooms. "

CRESSWELL WALKER lives the dream of a life of aligned purpose and work. He’s a lifelong sailor, glider and power pilot, and builder of boats and airplanes. He’s a professional yacht skipper and captain of his own boat, S.V. Conversations. He’s also a Professional: an Executive Coach, an Organizational Effectiveness Consultant, an Urban Planner, a published writer, an international speaker, a workshop leader, an entrepreneur and a businessman. Today, he lives in Singapore with his adventure partner, getting ready for the next leg of his sail around the world.