Advance Praise for The Visionmaker
"Read Patrick O’Neill’s book with courage and an open heart. Read it for your personal journey. Read it for your professional life.
If you desire to know about life’s possibilities and are curious about the path of self-discovery, Patrick O’Neill will guide and teach you. Be prepared to be challenged and inspired as you read each chapter - the research is deep; the ideas are complex and the messages are compelling. The Visionmaker is much more than a book; it is an experience."
Karen Murton
Principal
Branksome Hall School
"Read Patrick O’Neill’s book with courage and an open heart. Read it for your personal journey. Read it for your professional life.
If you desire to know about life’s possibilities and are curious about the path of self-discovery, Patrick O’Neill will guide and teach you. Be prepared to be challenged and inspired as you read each chapter - the research is deep; the ideas are complex and the messages are compelling. The Visionmaker is much more than a book; it is an experience."
Karen Murton Principal
Branksome Hall School
"The Visionmaker is an extraordinary and valuable work and is a must read for anyone interested in developing their Visionmaking skills. Much has been written about vision and leadership but nothing has given the kind of personal road map to Visionmaking that is contained in Patrick's work. He weaves many years of consulting and teaching with learning from a diverse group of experts on the essence of defining, creating and living a vision which fulfills our most important desires as productive leaders and individuals. This book is deeply engaging and rich in personal value. It demands personal dialogue as well as a commitment to challenge the most fundamental aspects of why we work and what we work for. I would recommend this book for anyone serious about creating a powerful personal or organizational vision."
Paul Alofs President & CEO
The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
"The Visionmaker delivers something quite rare in the field of leadership--a book that is both fresh in theory and amazingly poetic. Patrick O'Neill has written a thoughtful and compelling treatise, providing the reader with a new approach to the building blocks of vision, and the underpinnings of inspiration and creativity. Richly complex, yet very accessible, this is a significant offering to anyone looking for the keys to personal reinvention in these difficult times."
David Baum, Ph.D., D.Min. Author: Lighting in a Bottle and The Randori Principles
"A journey of insights and meaning- a must read for anyone with a vision and the determination to see it through."
Dr. Samantha Nutt Founder and Executive Director
War Child Canada
"We've been waiting for this book - a guide for the next stage of evolution both yours and humanity's. It combines: ever-deepening wisdom, generous amounts of the poetic, and, the hyper-practical. The result is a meaningful life of enacted, deep vision for you, and the beginning of what's next for humanity."
Martin Rutte Chair, Centre for Spirituality and the Workplace,
Sobey School of Business, St Mary's University
co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
Founder, Project Heaven on Earth
"Whether we are considering the global economy, geopolitics, the state of the environment, or our personal health, we are confronted by the challenge of changing our ways. In The Visionmaker, Patrick O'Neill has provided the blueprints, tools, and clear instructions for how to translate our dreams into constructive action. This book is not only a practical, needed guide with relevance for each and every potential reader, it is an instrument of transformation. I recommend it to anyone who has a dream they want to manifest."
William B. Stewart, M.D. Medical Director
Institute for Health & Healing
California Pacific Medical Center
"The Visionmaker is a must read in a world that is seeking wise, balanced, and moral leadership. This is a book for every leader and anyone who is interested in the promotion and understanding of good leadership. It is a source of knowledge and wisdom that touches our deepest points. O'Neill provides a combination of thoughtful, personal, and practical stories and tips to a point where you can't put the book down. Highly recommended."
Zainab Salbi Author, Between Two Worlds
Founder and CEO of Women for Women International
"Patrick O'Neill has harvested pearls of indigenous wisdom that provides practical guides in creating a meaningful life amid the complex realities of the 21st Century. In The Visionmaker, he presents ways of renewing the excitement and energy of the adventure we call life. His approach is clear and firmly grounded in the common sense that makes progressive human interaction even possible. This work is provocative and inquisitive and makes a needed contribution in breaking harmful patterns in personal, community and even international cross-cultural relationships. Patrick's insights are timely, urgent and deliberative. This is a book for any individual, community or organization that wants to get unstuck."
Hon. Rebecca Westerfield (Ret.) Founding Member
JAMS-The Resolution Experts
"The Visionmaker is an important resource for anyone in transition, professionally and personally. For me, it was a tool to guide me as I moved from a business I was immersed in for over two decades. As I embark on a new, fulfilling and important career, I continue to reference "The Visionmaker" to remind me of the worthiness of my path and to reinforce the importance of having heart and meaning in my work. It has helped my find and maintain the courage to face a major life change."
Lisa Zbitnew CEO
War Child
(former President of Sony BMG)
"You are an entrepreneur or a business leader. You have a vision, your dream. Now what? Visions are nothing without vision makers, those rare few who "make'' their vision a reality, anchored in everyday practice and followed by others. Many a vision is wrecked on the rocks of expediency, the art of the possible, conflict, failing commitment, ego and more. You have defined your vision, it is your what. In The Visionmaker - A Path of Heart and Meaning, Patrick O'Neill shows you the how. You will learn how to prepare yourself for your journey, how to put aside obstacles and remain inspired. You will look inside yourself to discover how to apply your unique gifts, talents, values and character to persist through and have heart for the inevitable challenges. You will learn how to translate your vision and your passion to purposeful actions. You will learn how to inspire followers; you can't do it by yourself. Oh yes, if you can't create or frame a vision he can help you there too. Let Patrick O'Neill be your guide; he has been my guide for over ten year with great success in helping me to create, and to grow my businesses."
Michael Preston President
Tapestry Group Inc.