Meet Your Coach

Millard "Mac" MacAdam

Coach - Consultant - Trainer - Speaker - Author

Mac very much enjoys doing good things with and for people... his clients, his friends and his family. He is a native Californian who fully enjoys his life, professional work, family and friends. Mac and his wife Barbara are Marriage Mentors for the Marriage and Family Ministry at Mariners Church in Newport Beach.  Mac also serves as a volunteer coaching coordinator for Mariners Men in the Marketplace Ministry. Both are engaged in community volunteer activities. Mac is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa and a past Vocational Director for Rotary District 5320.  Mac and Barbara enjoy living in Orange County, California close to their three married children, their grandchildren and their great grandchildren.

Love of the outdoors and nature has been in Mac's blood since his childhood and he greatly enjoys his frequent visits to his family retreat overlooking June Lake in northern California. During a long weekend each month of the summer and fall you will find him enjoying family and friends as they cast for trout while wading along his favorite high sierra streams. On a long weekend each winter month, you will find him and his wife Barbara skiing down snow-laden slopes on June or Mammoth mountain with friends and family.

Sailing with family and friends from the Oasis Sailing Club on the Oasis II brings Mac delight several times a month as he enjoys  fun and relaxing cruising up and down the Newport Coast.   

Gaining and maintaining discretionary time to build a balanced and beneficial life was one of Mac's former major goals as a driven business owner and educator.  His goal achieved, he now thoroughly enjoys life, family and friends by maintaining the kind of balance in his life and work he writes about in his book, Intentional Integrity: Aligning Your Life with God's Values.  After he married Barbara, he served in the Air Force and started his dual careers as a young educator and entrepreneur.  Maintaining quality discretionary time on his busy calendar has remained a top priority since he came to terms with urgency and busyness as a destructive distraction from the important things in life. He has found that gaining and maintaining a balanced life with sufficient spiritual, physical, emotional, time and financial reserves requires him to focus on "working to live, not living to work" and he helps his clients do this too!.

As much as Mac loves catching fish, his coaching and consulting philosophy is to educate, empower, and encourage his clients to fish for themselves. He holds himself accountable for not creating dependence on himself as he helps clients sharpen and master the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for being stellar leaders and managers and preventing costly mistakes and making of more profitable decisions. It is the same teaching philosophy he had when he patiently taught his son Scott and his grandsons Brittan and Cameron to become excellent fishermen and watched them experience their joy of achievement.

After serving in the United States Air Force as Director of the Career Information and Education Center for the headquarters unit of the 33rd Division of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean Conflict and later graduating from college, he pursued dual careers in education and business. Mac received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Education and later his Master of Arts degree in Administration from California State University, Los Angeles. In 1969 he received his Doctorate degree in education from the University of Southern California, having a major in Curriculum Design and Adult Learning with a minor in Administration. Later in his career he completed the renowned post graduate intern program in Organization Development and Human Resource Consulting with University Associates.

As a 27 year old entrepreneur, Mac started his first business with one partner.  The business quickly grew to ten employees on rented property.  They then purchased a 25 acre site in the Malibu Mountains of California to develop Sycamore Ranch, Inc. In a short time they added an adjacent 25 acres to the business and grew to 100 employees. Mac served for sixteen years as founding President and CEO of the resident retreat and education facility. During difficult and discouraging times when destructive floods hit his business, he oversaw the repairing of the property and the quick restoration of services to clients. 

Mac has a deep desire to help each of his clients achieve their natural best. He desires that they gain and maintain the critical physical, emotional, time and financial reserves that allow them to run their businesses instead of having their businesses enslave and run them.  He wants to help them enjoy more discretionary time to relax and enjoy their families and friends. The most frequent reserve-sapping mistakes Mac finds himself helping his clients avoid are: decisions and actions that deplete their personal reserves and cause burn out; hiring the wrong people; delegating inappropriately; having policies and actions that loose good customers and staff members; and making spending decisions on staff training and other things that waste time and financial resources.

Over the last four decades Mac has enjoyed and appreciated serving small business owners and leaders and their staff members in manufacturing and high tech companies; accounting, banking and insurance enterprises; medical and health care organizations; service and retail oriented businesses; and educational, nonprofit, and ministry organizations.

He uses his Intentional Business Integrity Model to help all clients assess the health and good functioning of the various people-driven functions within their organizations.  Functionally, each element of the model is driven through the lens of biblical principles from God's Word.  When working with Christian clients, he works up front and diligently with them to determine how God's principles for living life and doing business apply and are always truly profitable.  He helps them be accountable to themselves and to God for applying these principles and being and doing all God calls them to be and do.

His probing, thought provoking comment to clients after they have shared their concerns and desires with him is, "Life has consistently taught me that if I keep doing what I'm doing I'll get what I've got. If I like what I've got in my marriage, with my family, with my friends and in my business, I try to figure out what I'm doing and keep on doing it. If I don't like what I'm getting, I take responsibility for looking hard at what I need to add, delete or modify to get what I truly desire and then go about doing it. What are the key things happening that you don't like and deeply desire to change?"

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