Speaker
Michael consults and speaks around the country, both as a consultant and a keynote speaker. He specializes in understanding human behavior and how it relates to productivity in the workplace. You can customize the speaking event to fit the needs of your company or group: full-day, half-day or motivational keynote speaking events are the typical formats from which to choose.
With over 1000 events to his credit over the last decade, Michael’s style is personable, fun and educating. Michael takes a unique approach to his speaking events, virtually unrivaled in the world of “professional” and “motivational speaking.” He places strong emphasis on really getting to know the culture and the challenges of the group that he will be addressing. By simply picking up the phone and calling a cross-section of those who will be in attendance, Michael gets a more realistic and honest assessment of the company’s needs and challenges. Michael calls this process “immersion into their culture.”
During this preliminary fact-finding process, individuals share challenges that they may not share with their direct reports or peers otherwise. As a result, Michael is able to assemble all of the employee feedback in an anonymous fashion and share it with the senior leaders so to identify and overcome various corporate challenges. This is one key differentiator of Michael as a speaker—he really does his homework and wants to be involved in the understanding of the corporate culture.
Michael does public and private events around the world and is currently booking for the next year.
"You were such a huge catalyst for me back when you were coaching me. Of the goals you helped me set during our sessions--I blew them out of the water. It's now 3:30am and I am still sitting at my computer fine tuning my trading strategy as you coached me to do..A Shark Never Sleeps!"
- Kevin Teeple, President/CIO, KTM Funds