The most successful leaders and teams are able to see their own interpersonal dynamics clearly, discuss those dynamics fearlessly, and, when needed, change their team dynamic quickly. To enable them to release the power they carry within, teams need wise leadership – leaders who know how to navigate change effectively and stay in flow, mastering any situation with confidence and ease.
Transform your organization’s performance with our powerful frameworks for strong leadership and high-performing teams.
“The teams that win – and do so consistently – always have the ability to assess their own culture without fear, and boldly take the actions needed to ensure the organizational culture supports the organizational strategy.”
Transform your organization with our powerful frameworks for strong leadership and high-performing teams.
Scale your impact from managing teams to transforming organizations. Get the strategic frameworks and executive presence you need to lead at the next level.
We tackle your actual leadership challenges in real-time—that difficult team member, the project that’s stuck, the new boss (with a new leadership style).
While you get frameworks that work in the moment, we put each situation into the larger context of your overall leadership strengths and development areas.
You practice your new skills on real situations, close gaps and build confidence through wins that compound over time.
Leaders I coach typically increase their influence at an enterprise level, delegate more strategically, resolve team conflicts, and see measurable improvements in team performance within 90 days or less. A CTO I worked with went from dreading executive meetings to leading them—and got promoted 6 months later.
“Michael helped me see the root problem and provided a framework that helped me with the current issue but also built skills to solve similar problems that might emerge in the future.”
Qian Wang – Principal, Chief Asia Economist, Global Head, Vanguard
Turn your team meetings from a chore to a highly valued event. Ensure clear roles and accountabilities, honest and open communication, and faster execution—so your team actually delivers what you promised.
We help leaders and teams turn complexity into clarity—and respond to pressure with progress.
You’ll see:
Faster, bolder decision-making
Clear ownership and follow-through
Root-cause problem solving that lasts
A team that enjoys working together with shared purpose and resilience
It’s not about working harder. It’s about working smarter—together, with shared language, aligned expectations, and confidence to move forward.
We start by uncovering what’s actually getting in your team’s way—because it’s rarely what you think. Then we help you choose what to change and coach you through it, giving everyone a clear, shared playbook to work from.
We use action learning, not personality tests or abstract theory. This means real-play, not role-play—applying new behaviors to real business challenges, until they become second nature.
You bring the goals. We help you get there—faster, stronger, and with the tools to keep going.
This isn’t theory—it’s traction.
One engineering leader at Yahoo! eliminated weekly status meetings. Her team now ships features 3 weeks faster.
Teams who may have resisted tough decisions now move in sync—with less stress and more impact.
Leaders gain strategic influence, and teams build the kind of credibility that opens doors to bigger opportunities.
Clients consistently report stronger collaboration, better execution, and measurable ROI—often within 90 days.
“Work with Michael if you want to bridge the gap between theory and practice when it comes to building great relationships at work and functioning as a high EQ leader.”
Josh Schwartz, Senior Director, Engineering, Verizon
Transform from HR “super admin” to strategic, trusted business partner. Get the frameworks and credibility to drive real organizational change that executives actually value—without dependence on external consultants.
We build your internal consulting capability using proven frameworks that work in complex organizations, using your actual clients to gain new skills as you increase value.
You learn the entire process from initial stakeholder engagement and diagnostic assessment through intervention design, implementation, and measuring ROI that matters to the C-suite.
HR leaders who partner with me consistently see immediate impact—executives begin seeking their strategic input, and leaders actively compete to get their teams into the programs they develop.
They reduce or eliminate external consulting spend on organizational development, building internal capability instead.
One HRBP I worked with lead the redesign of her company’s product development process, accelerating time-to-market while improving success rates—directly boosting both margins and market share.
“Michael helped me guide a significant cultural shift in my team of 1000 engineers. He was the catalyst to make this large transformational program happen.”
Ravi Guduru, Head of Engineering JLL Technologies
Highly advanced facilitation for highly advanced teams. Turn your most important meetings into breakthrough moments with real decisions, clear action plans, and alignment that sticks – so your team moves the business forward.
This isn’t a retreat from the work—it’s where the real work gets done.
Leadership teams I work with typically make 3–5 strategic decisions in a single session, gain new skills, and walk away energized and aligned.
One executive team resolved a year-long product strategy conflict in two days—then implemented their new approach six months ahead of schedule.
Another team eliminated recurring issues by shifting from patchwork fixes to real root-cause problem solving. The result? Fewer escalations, faster delivery, and a lot less weekend stress.
“Michael has been both a client and a consulting partner. In every instance, I’ve admired his willingness to productively challenge the status quo in the search for solutions to messy business problems that are at once technical, political, and emotional. As a leader, Michael is adept at bringing teams together around their common interests, clarifying a new vision of the future, and managing a collaborative process of change. He is an adept process designer and facilitator, and always keep the human dimensions of work in focus without letting things start to feel too “soft and squishy.”
John Zapolski Founder and CEO, Alive Ventures. former Director Yahoo!, VP Wells Fargo
Your team’s most valuable time should feel valuable—and deliver lasting impact.
We help leadership teams turn meetings and offsites into moments of real progress, where alignment deepens, trust grows, and momentum builds. You’ll get:
We don’t teach theory first and hope it sticks later. We start with your real challenges and apply proven frameworks in real time—so your team learns by doing, together.
We use action learning—“real play,” not role play
Every exercise tackles actual business issues, not hypothetical ones
We guide honest conversations that build trust and move things forward
We ensure every minute of your time together drives clarity, connection, and outcomes
Because meetings reveal your culture in real time. We help you use them to shape your new culture—into a high-trust, high-performance team that delivers when it counts, resilient and in flow.
