Helping People Perform, Transform, and Flourish

Ion is a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and executives. He helps them perform, transform, and flourish in an era of accelerating change.

Perform

I help people perform to their full potential by curating the best insights from business strategy to neuroscience. I upgrade people’s entire operating systems by guiding them to develop better health, fitness, decision making, habits, routines and processes.

Transform

I empower individuals and organizations to transform themselves in response to changing personal, social, economic or technological circumstances, and teach them the mindsets, skillsets and toolkit they’ll need to reinvent themselves repeatedly.

Flourish

Excelling at work is not all that matters in life. No amount of success will be satisfying if you don’t actually know what makes you happy. I ask questions that get to the heart of what makes a good life – for you. When we do that together, we start the journey towards what Aristotle called Eudaemonia, or “flourishing.”

Ion Valis

Is President of Prometheus Strategic Advisors, a boutique management consulting and executive coaching firm with clients worldwide. He has a unique combination of entrepreneurial and executive experience in the public, private and plural sectors. Ion has worked as a Press Secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, helped launch and run a ground-breaking international mobile media initiative at a Fortune Global 50 company in London, served as a senior executive in a fast-growing technology start-up in Montreal, oversaw an international foundation dedicated to public leadership and since 2008 has run his own consulting practice.

The Book

Drawing on his two decades of experience managing people, projects, brands and budgets, as well as 6 years researching leading-edge thinking on peak performance from around the world, Ion has created an innovative personal leadership program and strategic framework that is described in his first book, “The Magnificent Mistake: How You Can Earn More from Failure Than You Learn from Success.”

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Attention is The Operating System of the 21st Century

Attention is The Operating System of the 21st Century

Jan 12, 2026

The Attention Project will explore how attention shapes productivity, identity, purpose, and power. Together, these essays form what I call The Attention Theory of Everything—a unified framework for understanding the hidden structure of the modern world, with attention influencing everything at its gravitational center.

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Ion was invaluable in deftly guiding us in the “reinvention” of our foundation. The foundation leadership was so impressed with Ion’s performance and professionalism that he was then asked to join the Board of Directors, where his communication, organizational and analytical skills combined with world-class experience continue to make an outstanding contribution.

Désirée McGraw
President, Pearson College UWC

A powerful and practical guide to learning from your mistakes. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a very well written and pragmatic methodology to learn from mistakes we all make in our roles as parents, workers and friends. A great read!

Arne Arens
Global Brand President, The North Face ®

Ion has managed to capture, in a succinct and universally applicable framework, how we can learn from and master our own mistakes. His simple yet effective checklist will help you to use your mistakes – big or small – to grow and improve in a conscious and deliberate way.

Mike Ross
Founder, Juniper Strategic Advisors

Whether you’re the head of a Fortune 500 company or the head of your family, the lessons in Ion’s book will help you make the most of your miscues and transform them into magnificent mistakes.

David Dreier
Chairman, Annenberg-Dreier Commission and US Congressman from California from 1981 to 2013

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