Columbus, Ohio, United States
Need to aim your career? Navigate the white water of career & organizational change? I'm your partner. A coach, consultant & trainer, good listener, Mike’s able to explain, demonstrate, guide & empower clients to make successful transitions in career & personal life. Among professionals & volunteers confronting change, Mike is a leader skilled at producing results through diverse teams carrying out complex activities. He has political savvy & the payoff of a big-picture thinker.
Mike chaired and now serves on the "board" of BSA 365, a 50-year-old organization. He develops adult Scout leaders to become effective mentors, & mentors Boy Scouts growing to be competent, confident men who exhibit character & skill. Some accomplishments: -- Collaborated in conceiving & piloting a unique program for volunteer leaders based on private-sector principles of "bench building," including recruitment, on-boarding, mentoring & evaluation to increase volunteer retention, satisfaction & program support -- Personally coached & mentored more than 150 Scouts who achieved Eagle Scout rank -- Led the BSA 365 Troop Committee (a not-for-profit "Board of Directors") for 15 years, aligning volunteers to deliver a community-renowned Scouting program, then producing a successful transformation to a new Chair & new leadership & mentoring leaders to develop into the next act -- Recruited, retained & aligned the talent of over 100 Scout adults to back up boy-based leadership development programs in Scouting -- Designed & delivered 10 high-energy, developmentally-appropriate 3-day youth Scout leader workshops to develop leader skills thru reflection, practice & team-building -- Led, enhanced & marketed a highly-rated regional canoe instructional program for 500 youth & adults -- Delivered more than $125K in support by developing & leading a team of Friends of Scouting presenters serving more than 50 units over 3 years -- Recognized by peers by award of the Silver Beaver, a council‐level & nationally-recognized distinguished volunteer service award of the Boy Scouts of America
Mike is passionate about providing great support in career management, delivering on-site, telephone-based, on-line & office-based help for clients as they make a satisfying & successful career transition, with reliably high high customer-satisfaction results. Selected examples: -- Produced effective career transition help face-to-face for over 1000 workshop candidates from executives & exempt staff to shop-floor employees in finance, retail, manufacturing, health care & education, with 1/2 day, 1 day & multi-day programs, in office & on-site, in normal, 2nd & 3rd shift environments -- Delivered virtual face-to-face, 1:1 career transition support to 165 home-based candidates across North America, providing sensitive voice consulting help in a web-based environment -- Chosen as a "resume doctor" to mentor 225 clients in the South and Southwest -- and in it, receiving high acclaim -- to produce personalized resumes, marketing plans & materials which feature client strengths
Mike provides site-based talent management leadership development & training for effective team-building. An example: --Engaged & aligned 200 telecommunications industry managers, building line management skills for organizational change, with requests to return 4 times & continue to produce the same high-value learning & customer-satisfaction results
Developed integrated, partner-based workforce development services to business, refugees, employers & workers seeking alien labor certification, migrant workers -- Led creation of a statewide, public / private workforce policy board -- Awarded citations of Governor's Workforce Excellence to 15 benchmark enterprises -- Produced 4 successful multicultural statewide conferences on refugee services -- Secured $ 5M in new Federal funding for faith-based agency involvement in workforce services -- For professional audiences in apprenticeship, foreign & migrant labor & refugee services, produced & delivered 200 presentations on workforce training issues
Developed positions & advocacy for Governor & executive stands on legislation supporting workforce development & business assistance -- Successfully negotiated state positions on Federal workforce bills, with National Governors' Association and bipartisan Congressional support -- Recruited, aligned, trained & led business community members in reaching to their Members of Congress & delivering uniform messages to produce legislative change benefitting Ohio -- Secured bipartisan passage of 5 state unemployment compensation bills -- With labor & business community support, ensured $51M in state employment service agency funding -- Trained state elected officials & staff in employment law, unemployment case handling & effective customer service response to constituent problems, referred to by news media as unemployment law for the compleat idiot -- Produced reach-out communications through electronic customer & monthly issue newsletters to keep business, union and lobbyist supporters reliably informed
Produced approaches, staffed & led team to provide state support to workers, employers & communities dealing with economic dislocation from large-scale layoff or plant closings -- Designed & led fast, collaborative responses to 300 mass layoffs & impacted communities -- Produced 1st-ever funding for labor federation participation on layoff response teams -- Managed 2 multi-state conferences on dislocation response, with Federal & other state participation
Advised 20 corporations, organized labor bodies government units & nonprofit agencies on employment-related training programs, acquiring $2.7 M in outside funding for partner teams linking social services & economic development to training & assuring clients met mutual needs & achieved intended results