Michael provides organizational development guidance, coaching and training to a wide variety of community and professional associations. He brings expertise in developing holistic solutions to complex organizational problems that draw on his broad experience in community, academia, politics, social entrepreneurship, faith-based settings, government and education. He has worked as a high school teacher, a non-profit executive director, a community organizer, and he also founded and led for ten years a training and leadership development organization. Michael has a BA from Columbia University and an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and is the author of the book Building Powerful Community Organizations.