Paul Templer: From Safari Guide to CEO — Transcript

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1. 0:00i see so many things that have happened
2. 0:02since that that events that have led to
3. 0:04to i guess a sharing of so much
4. 0:06inspiration so much hope do you feel
5. 0:09that that event was positioned to guide
6. 0:12you into that do you have a sense of
7. 0:15that now that everything that happened
8. 0:17led you into writing what's left of me
9. 0:20becoming an entrepreneur and basically
10. 0:23sharing this story to provide hope and
11. 0:25inspiration or was that something you
12. 0:27feel would have happened anyway
13. 0:30no i think it absolutely helped casper
14. 0:34um initially
15. 0:36um
16. 0:38i
17. 0:39i i had no intention of
18. 0:43becoming a speaker or an author
19. 0:45um but when i arrived in america
20. 0:48and got married my wife at the time
21. 0:50thought i should have a job which seemed
22. 0:52very reasonable
23. 0:53and it didn't seem that there were
24. 0:55a whole lot of employment opportunities
25. 0:58for a one-armed ex-safari guy in the
26. 1:00metro detroit
27. 1:02so
28. 1:04at the time i'd set up a foundation of
29. 1:06501c3 and we were helping um
30. 1:10include lost limbs in africa and i was
31. 1:12invited to go and speak and people kept
32. 1:15saying to me you know you could actually
33. 1:16pay some of your bills by doing that and
34. 1:18so i became the accidental speaker
35. 1:21and then writing the book
36. 1:23was
37. 1:25kind of cathartic so between standing on
38. 1:27a stage sharing my story
39. 1:30and trying to extrapolate lessons
40. 1:33for me
41. 1:34that i was able to share that was
42. 1:36incredibly healthy and helpful
43. 1:39and writing the book the same so
44. 1:43extremely grateful for them that it was
45. 1:45uh
46. 1:47it wasn't by intent and
47. 1:50when i look back at it now
48. 1:53um
49. 1:56i think it was training wheels for what
50. 1:58was to come
51. 1:59um what follow i thought that was going
52. 2:02to
53. 2:04be my life lesson
54. 2:07i had no idea that that was just
55. 2:09preparing me for what was to come
56. 2:12yeah i think so much of the you know
57. 2:14what we go through prepares us in in the
58. 2:16if we let it be that correct and you
59. 2:19know i've spoken to so many patients
60. 2:20that have just gone through so much
61. 2:22different strokes so many different
62. 2:23struggles trauma
63. 2:25and you know years and years of of
64. 2:27suffering that look back once they get
65. 2:30through and say the same thing those
66. 2:32were the training wheels i could bless
67. 2:33those events in the past they set me up
68. 2:36for something bigger and also for taking
69. 2:38on the challenges that were to come in a
70. 2:40sense and for you you know you started a
71. 2:42company opus dynamic that you founded or
72. 2:45ceo of and it's a cbm which is a
73. 2:48commitment based management company
74. 2:51tell me about that commitment based
75. 2:53management because i'm in business and i
76. 2:55understand many different approaches to
77. 2:57business and you know the non-for-profit
78. 3:00everything but
79. 3:01what led you to start that opus dynamic
80. 3:05so i was i was incredibly blessed when i
81. 3:07when i came to the us um
82. 3:11just through a series of really crazy
83. 3:12coincidences i ended up getting a job
84. 3:15with a
85. 3:17guy who actually was the founder of that
86. 3:20ontology that methodology and he his
87. 3:23company business design associates used
88. 3:26chap called fernando flores
89. 3:28had a lot of really really smart people
90. 3:33working with it and they were looking at
91. 3:35how do we build high performing teams
92. 3:37how do we
93. 3:40enable people to show up more fully
94. 3:43to take care of their commitments to
95. 3:44themselves and to each other
96. 3:47and
97. 3:49fernando quite brilliant and the teams
98. 3:51that he had quite brilliant and they
99. 3:53were looking for people
100. 3:55uh practitioners to go and take this out
101. 3:57to the world and i was just real blessed
102. 4:00and real fortunate that i was kind of a
103. 4:02test tube baby they were looking for
104. 4:05people who had done things that were a
105. 4:08little out of the norm klein mountains
106. 4:10paddled rivers um who could engage and
107. 4:12interact with people and who were kind
108. 4:14of an embodiment so i felt
109. 4:18i really appreciated that
110. 4:20the team thought that was me
111. 4:22and
112. 4:24i learned all about i got
113. 4:26deep dive and learned all about this
114. 4:28commitment based management stuff and it
115. 4:30was fantastic casper it was predicated
116. 4:33on the position
117. 4:35that as we interact with each other we
118. 4:37make commitments and the way we take
119. 4:39care of those commitments and the way we
120. 4:41take care of ourselves and each other
121. 4:43there's a direct correlation between
122. 4:44that and success
123. 4:47and there's a number of very simplistic
124. 4:50moves and simplistic ways of being and
125. 4:53doing things
126. 4:54that we can learn that we don't just
127. 4:56inherently come
128. 4:57with thing into life with but that we
129. 4:59can learn and we can apply and we can
130. 5:01adapt and we can generate a lot of value
131. 5:04and
132. 5:06over the years it was magnificent i got
133. 5:08to
134. 5:09travel around the world work with teams
135. 5:11a lot of um
136. 5:13[Music]
137. 5:14fortune 100 fortune 500 companies
138. 5:17as my career escalated i ended up doing
139. 5:20a lot of executive development executive
140. 5:22coaching executive team coaching
141. 5:24we've used this methodology with
142. 5:26professional sports teams did a bunch of
143. 5:29work with the military anytime you've
144. 5:31got individuals who want to function as
145. 5:33a high-performing team and really take
146. 5:36their work to the next level this
147. 5:38commitment-based management work is
148. 5:42at first blush extremely simple
149. 5:48but once applied is incredibly effective
150. 5:52and i love that because once you make a
151. 5:53commitment you have a goal you have
152. 5:55purpose and like you said when you have
153. 5:57purpose you have drive to drive on also
154. 6:00and to all be driving on in the same
155. 6:02direction with the same focus and same
156. 6:04intensity and same energy positive
157. 6:06energy hopefully and i think that's
158. 6:08what's incredibly important for health
159. 6:11in general i think people mistake that
160. 6:14you know having purpose or you know
161. 6:16anything in the realm of spirituality
162. 6:18mentality really dictate health when it
163. 6:20really starts with you know the physical
164. 6:23side
165. 6:24right whether that is what you eat how
166. 6:26you work out whereas
167. 6:28i think you know our approach a little
168. 6:29bit more it is much more of a holistic
169. 6:31one
170. 6:32and it does uh have a very large section
171. 6:37of that is what is your purpose what is
172. 6:38your commitment to life where are you
173. 6:40finding joy and where are you finding
174. 6:42that passion and everything so i love to
175. 6:45take that and apply that to business
176. 6:47because i don't think that's just good
177. 6:48business that's good for health as well
178. 6:50and general well-being of everyone