Clayton M. Myhill

He's a retired senior military officer who eventually had to grow up and get a real job. Now he runs an engineering firm designing and building systems for defence, aerospace, and medical clients—industries where "I'm having a moment" is not an acceptable explanation for why the prototype is on fire.

The emotional navigation tools in this book have been field-tested on battlefields where the stakes are measured in lives, and in boardrooms where they're measured in contracts. Either way, meltdowns aren't an option. And misunderstandings are costly.

He's also an MBA-trained executive coach, and the kind of guy who names his stress symptoms. (Gary says hello.) His approach to emotional navigation comes from battlefields, boardrooms, hockey rinks, and one particularly educational divorce—proving that the best teachers are usually the ones who had to learn everything the hard way.

Clayton is the creator of the Emotional Navigation System (ENS™), a practical framework tested in high-stakes environments and refined through real-world application. The framework originated from personal disaster (the turkey baptism was real) and evolved into a teachable system.

When he's not writing about emotional fires, he's usually putting one out—sometimes metaphorically, sometimes involving actual kitchen appliances.