Donor Spotlight: John Schuster

John Schuster shares about how his personal growth has been shaped by Hudson:

I did not go to Hudson to find the most important mentor in my life, nor did I go to Hudson to make friendships that would last decades. I got them both. I did not go to Hudson to be transformed. I was. And, while I did developmental work on me outside of Hudson too, it has been the place I come back to again and again, to solidify and celebrate and crystallize my learnings and new ways of being.

I did go to Hudson to enhance my work know-how and skills, and I got that, and an on-going learning community on top of that. The memories of small group dialogue, outings with friends, and a parade of wonderful speaker-teachers over the decades at annual conferences has resourced me and my work life.

I took my Hudson journey with my wife Patricia Kane, a certified Hudson coach as well. What a ride it has been. Working as faculty there has been an honor.

So many deep insights come from my Hudson experience. Creating an ongoing and deep eye for development is one of them. Human development across all our roles in life and across the human life span. Another is how to support myself in the discernment process for life’s big decisions: the many tools and models for weighing alternatives that I have used many, many times.

I did not go to Hudson to find the most important mentor of my life, nor did I go to Hudson to make friendships that would last decades. I got them both.

John Schuster shares about the drive behind his donation to the Frederic Hudson Scholarship Program:

Donating to the foundation is a small way to pay forward all that I have received. All people deserve the opportunity to find a deep well of learning in a culture that has shallow streams and mud puddles disguised as learning.

John Schuster speaks to the opportunities that have been unlocked for him since graduating from Hudson's Coach Certification Program:

How can I make myself a coach, a professional, a person, that is growing all the time and worthy of my clients' time, money, and best efforts to grow. What a privilege to step up to! And Hudson made me better at life and work.

The opportunities that opened for me with Hudson are primarily mindset and attitudinal. The external ones, like adding coaching to our business as coaching was expanding its influence was huge. Our leadership practice stayed in step with the marketplace. But that may have happened anyway. The big opportunity for me, and most I suspect, is internal. How can I make myself a coach, a professional, a person, that is growing all the time and worthy of my clients' time, money, and best efforts to grow. What a privilege to step up to! And Hudson made me better at life and work.

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The Frederic Hudson Scholarship Program thanks John Schuster for being part of the Hudson community and for helping us in our mission to broaden access to adult learning.