Patrick McGuire
Founder of Altus Ascent. Leadership coach, speaker and the person who learned the hard way.
Here to help leaders and teams increase their capacity to lead with vitality and consistency.
Let's face it Leadership is magnetic. When energy, health, and presence fade, people feel it. The way forward is to improve your health, upgrade your mindset, develop communication skills, and focus on leading yourself well.
Take the Total Stress Load Quiz and see where your capacity is being limited.
Rooting For You!
Patrick
The Belief
Many can lead well -
Sometimes
What they can't fake is consistency. Leading well under pressure, during difficult times, when the energy is gone, and the stakes are at their highest is when leaders slip.
It's a capacity problem. And capacity starts with physical vitality and the practices that maintain it.
When your body moves towards vitality
everything else follows
The Origin
Learning the hard way
Early in his career, he lost his infant son. Shortly after, he was diagnosed with a condition doctors told him was incurable. Facing that diagnosis, he got curious and learned as much as he could about the diagnosis.
What followed was years of studying how nutrition, sleep, movement, and emotional health either fuel inflammation or fight it. He earned a black belt in Chuan Fa — a discipline where calm under pressure is foundational and physical health is a way of life.
As he moved toward a clean diet and balanced lifestyle, something unexpected happened: his emotions stabilized despite the grief. As his emotions stabilized, his capacity for healthy relationships improved.
After relocating, Patrick was drawn to yoga. And what began as exploration became a decade-long practice that culminated in his 200-hour Yoga Teacher certification. Patrick wanted a practice he could share that cultivates vitality, presence, and longevity.
The Methodology
The Vitality Framework
This work is built on an approach that moves clients from physiological foundation to sustained leadership performance.
The Experience
Inside The Problem
Patrick spent nearly two decades inside a corporate organization — building and leading the development of tools used by organizations worldwide to measure values and culture. He watched high performers grind themselves into ineffectiveness. He watched teams fracture under poor leadership. He watched organizations invest in leadership training and wonder why nothing changed.
The problem is always the same: leadership is absent, growth comes at the cost of health, or people are left without the guidance they need to thrive.
To deepen his understanding of how leaders are developed, Patrick earned his Maxwell Leadership Certification, becoming a certified coach, trainer, speaker, and Maxwell DISC consultant. And because he believes that presence and communication are skills worth training deliberately, he's studied acting and improv — investing in his own ability to show up fully in any room.
