Helping you accomplish what's most important.
The thesis
Life-work balance, not life-work integration… actually, it's both. Organizations produce durable results, and individuals live meaningful lives, through the same underlying method: deliberate, structured practice. The work of bastion across consulting, coaching, and software is one body of work in three registers - because holistic, considered action is what matters across arenas.
The work
Our icon represents it: a foundation, an outcome, and the intersection where they interact. That's where the work happens. Each practice at bastion enables this in a different register; sometimes audiences, approaches, and tools overlap - regardless, the philosophy is the same: deliberate, structured practice.
Strategic leadership and delivery for organizations doing hard, cross-boundary transformation work. Business and IT strategy, business-case development, transformation program delivery, and the on-the-ground leadership that gets initiatives across the line - public and private sector, at the executive or decision-making level.
The TopSelf philosophy - at least one deliberate action a day across the six dimensions that make a life go well. A framework, an iOS action-tracker, and a book in progress, Fulfilment Through Practice.
Purpose-built systems (with help from Gen-AI) for the kinds of work people do but few systems support well - designed for durability, adoption, and quiet usefulness over the long term.
The founder
Founder, Bastion · Victoria, British Columbia
Over twenty-five years at the intersection of business and technology. Mac has led business and systems transformation and digital architecture at the executive, management and working level. He has led delivery teams building on Salesforce, AWS, Azure, and other platforms.
His blend of business and technology acumen, people skills, and a genuine passion for making a difference means he can likely help with whatever you're juggling.
Project Management Professional, Lean Six Sigma, Enterprise Architecture, ITIL, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Service Design - all different certifications aimed at delivering the same result - organize and execute the work in the most effective and efficient way possible, to drive the best possible outcome. Yep, that's what we do.
Thinking, Writing…
The writing is part of the body of work - where the method gets examined, argued, and refined in the open.
The long-form case for the thesis - building a meaningful life the same way durable organizations are built: deliberate, structured practice.
Field notes on transformation, leadership, technology, AI, and the disciplined practice behind good work (and a good life.)
bastion.cxAvailable for keynotes and facilitation on digital transformation, and on practice as a way of working and living.
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