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Derin McMains recently kicked off a top executive level meeting at Tampa-based cybersecurity pioneer ReliaQuest, with a tale that, on the surface, seems ill-placed for a billion-dollar global tech firm. The story’s focus: wilderness survival.
A former pro baseball player and coach, McMains, now director of mental performance at ReliaQuest, didn't tell a personal staying alive story. Instead, in what the company calls a Mindset Moment, McMains’ story was from the book “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why.”
Nearly every meeting at any level at ReliaQuest, which has some 1,000 employees across six worldwide offices, including 500 or so in Tampa, starts with a Mindset Moment. A ReliaQuest Mindset Moment is about five to seven minutes. The idea is to inspire or motivate meeting participants, while relating it to a high-level principle and company core value. The idea follows something ReliaQuest founder and CEO Brian Murphy often says, that the company doesn't have a culture but a mindset.
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