I work on a selection of meaningful projects.
Creator of Clear Path Forward.
Building Amble.
I’m available to help you navigate uncertainty through:
- Coaching, advising, and consulting
- Workshop design and facilitation
- Collaboration, partnership, and team embedding
My work is intersectional:
Strategy + Design + Technology + People
The opportunities most interesting to me often touch on:
- Facilitating creativity, innovation, and change
- Helping people gain better understandings of [X]
- Developing human-centered leaders and organizations
- Helping people collaborate more effectively with one another
- Coaching people and teams towards collective flourishing
- Changing systems, shifting paradigms, and making things better
In other words, my work generally falls within the following areas:
- Leadership development, strategy, and alignment
- Operations, collaboration, and team effectiveness
- Organizational evolution, adaptation, and change
- Experience design (customer, employee, patient, etc)
- Design strategy and business design
- Service, program, and product design
- Brand, content, and product strategy
- Messaging, positioning, and storytelling
A glimpse of what it’s like to work with me
Mike knows how to read a room and carry a strategy session like few can, and that makes everyone’s work that much easier. I strongly recommend Mike.
—Xavier Hughes, Former Chief Innovation Officer for Obama Administration
I threw Mike into the depths of a complex industry and he powered right through to deliver real impact and a unique perspective to our team and our clients.
—Travis Cozzie, Associate Director of CX Strategy, MRM//McCANN
Mike’s ability to create a focused and collaborative environment resulted in a strategy session that produced more than I could have hoped for.
—Sylvester Mobley, Executive Director, Coded by Kids
Mike brought insight and support that helped me navigate a complex and challenging environment. We started coaching expecting to come up with a new role for me to present to management, and through coaching, ended up in a role transition better than the original goal.
—Dave Mox, Software Engineer
Mike is a thoughtful and adaptive facilitator who skillfully guided my team to explore fresh ways of thinking about our current project. Our full-day workshop was a highly productive and enjoyable day that led us to greater clarity and excitement about what’s ahead.
—Michaela Ahearn, Director of Creative Strategy and Integrated Communications, University of Pennsylvania
Our team left extremely energized and motivated to carry momentum forward. Mike was integral in the success of our 2018 planning.
—Shelby Zitelman, Co-Founder and CEO, Soom Foods
Mike is one of those people that brings out the best in others, individually and as a team. He is a strong facilitator, great listener, and provides useful insights and clarity to anything that is thrown his way. He’s sort of a Swiss Army Knife, with strong skills in bettering organizations, team leadership, experience design, and just as an exciting person to be around.
—Mike Katz, User Experience Lead, Hero Digital
Mike put together a great day of programming and delivered an excellent presentation to help our sales people become leaders in their space.
—Chris Corbett, VP of Sales and Marketing, CloudMine