ABOUT TOMMY TRANSIT

If there’s one thing that most people say about Tom Tompkins aka Tommy Transit is that he knows just about everyone in town! And if he doesn’t know you, he’s sure to know someone who does knows you. As a Vancouver bus driver with Coast Mountain Bus for 20 years, his job allows him in meet thousands of people every week, or as he puts it, “I get to meet approximately 150,000 people a year. That’s more than the Prime Minister, President and the Queen meet in a year...rolled altogether.”

It was this realization of his unique position to make a positive influence in the lives of literally thousands of people that changed how he went to work every day. By noticing people and making a personal compliment to them as they stepped onto the bus, the y felt seen. That “seeing” people made them feel more alive. People smiled, laughed and started to interact not only with him, but with others on the bus. “People often look like they’re off to the salt mines when they get on the bus. I bring them back to the moment and a sweet way of realizing that they are also alive right here on the bus.”

Over the years this became like breathing to him and he developed what he does into a series of courses around what he calls The Art of Acknowledgment. Tom is finishing off his book, “Bus Tales” about how to change the world from 9 to 5.

Michele Hall
www.whatworksmedia.ca