Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
Leadership Development
Leadership development at its best improves a leader’s ability to step back and act with a broad, strategic, and human perspective.
Doing so takes understanding and intentionally practiced technique.
Michael engagingly teaches leaders to better understand psychology and leadership.
This enables the practice of more mind-wise and skillful leadership tuned to the people, organization, and its most important challenges.
Treat your people to talks, workshops, classes, retreats, and off-sites with Michael: engaging sessions replete with insights from psychological research to help leaders pick up knowledge and tools for practicing better decisions and more skillful behavior involving time, money, risk, health, relationships, and much more.
Your organization will thank you.
Topics, tailored to your specific needs, include decision making and judgment, behavioral economics, social psychology, moral psychology, adult development, emotional intelligence, social intelligence.
It all begins with a conversation.
Executive Coaching
Executive coaching with Michael helps high potential, de-railing, and senior leaders learn the truth about how others see them, develop a plan to get better, and practice behavior change with an experienced coach, committed to their personal and professional growth. Michael is like a personal trainer for his client organization and the leader coached. Organizations (including the leader) set the goals. The leader engages in the process of behavior change. Michael keeps it all on track with good form and leader-organization alignment.
Speaking Engagements
Michael speaks to audiences about psychology and leadership.
Presentations include:
Intellectual Humility for Leaders
Leadership Decision Making in an Uncertain World
Homer Told the Truth About Leadership
The Homunculus is Dead: Emotion and Thinking in Leadership from Neuroscience and the Front Lines
Sapolsky’s Behave and Leadership
Moral Dumbfounding, Moral Tribes, and Ethical Leadership
Other Topics in Psychology and Leadership Effectiveness.
Dr. Goldstein, Harvard Medical School, Mass. General Hospital
“Would recommend him for anyone…incredibly committed to your personal and professional growth.”
Anonymous Physician-Scientist Leader, Mass General Brigham
“…talented and experienced…profound effect”
It begins with a conversation.
Contact Michael at mss746@mail.harvard.edu or 617-797-2594 for a free consultation.