Summary
Michael will champion you and your organisation in:
- Achieving your potential (and beyond)
- Releasing your locked up creativity
- Developing your business ideas, from concept to successful implementation
- For those new to New Zealand - nurturing you through the process
- Managing the minefields of change
- Developing your leadership capabilities
- The hard and the soft issues in managing your projects
- Facilitating events that develop your people
- Handling cross-cultural issues in business
- Recognising your vision, mission and purpose
- Finding your strengths and exploiting them
Qualifications and Training
- Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management
- Masters degree in Business (Cape Town University)
- Bachelor of science degree (London University)
- Certified practitioner in adult learning and teaching (AUT)
- Business mentor (Auckland University and NZIM)
- Treaty of Waitangi course (Whitireia Polytechnic)
- Certificates in sales and marketing Management (Columbia University, New York)
- PADI Scuba instructor (retired)
Experience
Developing entrepreneurs
- Have run "Be Your Own Boss" courses and business advisories through Auckland New Ventures
- Development consultant on an International Finance Corporation project to initiate and develop new business ventures
- Development consultant to Swedcorp, a Swedish business development agency
- Business development consultant to the World Bank
Coaching
Mentoring projects with Business In The Community through Enterprise North Shore
Facilitation and Training
- Senior lecturer in business management, project management and change management.
- Taught "Be Your own Boss" Courses.
- Organised numerous business orientated seminars.
Management of Change
As CEO of a large national business advocacy association, led it through a period of rapid and disruptive change
Facilitating events
- Organised and led a major investment conference in association with the Confederation of British industry in London. investment conference
- Organised and directed major national business conferences
Organisation Development
- Organisational development consultant to the United States Agency for International Development in Southern Africa
- Helped establish and then head up the Eastern and Southern African Business organisation (ESABO)
- Helped establish and then run the Southern African Railways Association (SARA)
- Consultant in organisation development for the establishment of the SADCC Transport Association and the SADCC Freight Forwarders Association