A seasoned professional who cuts to the chase
Experience
Michael is an experienced consultant who works closely with executive teams and boards of corporations and non-profits to help them formulate their strategies and address key issues to effectively guide their organizations.
Throughout his career, Michael has held senior positions for renowned consultancies and agencies including Prophet and Landor, and has advised notable companies such as GE, IBM, Boeing, United Airlines, Cargill, Brunswick, and Dupont. Most recently, Michael has accrued extensive experience across the healthcare industry working with senior leaders of large systems including Advocate Health, Catholic Health, Hackensack Meridian Health, and MultiCare; MedTech companies including Johnson & Johnson, GE Healthcare, and Abbott; Payers including Blue Cross Blue Shield, and medical associations and societies including College of American Pathologists (CAP), Child Neurology Society (CNS), and Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
Michael holds degrees from University of Colorado and Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and has guest lectured on marketing and strategy at the Kellogg Graduate School, Haas Business School at University of California, Berkeley, and University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Expertise
In his work over the past 20 years, Michael has led teams to solve a variety of complex issues. He has honed a skill in facilitating leaders toward alignment and enthusiasm around long-term visioning and strategy, road-mapping multi-year plans, positioning brands for success, insights into target audiences, and communicating value propositions of companies and their offers.
He combines insightful and innovative thinking with an ability to articulate important concepts that stimulate the right conversations among leadership to move organizations forward. He does this by applying “cut-to-the-chase consulting” that is well-suited to the needs and constrained resources of medical associations - quickly homing in on the most essential information, fitting the right degree of rigor to individual situations, steering productive collaborations, and providing structural contexts to ground and guide decision-making.