SPEAKING & MEDIA
Ideas worth carrying out of the room.
Mike speaks from experience rather than theory: companies founded, companies sold, companies broken and rebuilt, capital raised, acquisitions completed, teams scaled, and institutions led.
FEATURED TALK
The Myth of the Workforce Shortage.
Worker shortages are real, but “not enough workers” is an outcome, not a diagnosis. Mike explores the six conditions that make work worth choosing—Place, Preparation, Proposition, Perception, Path, and Purpose—and challenges us to honor labor, dignify work, and stop treating scarcity as fate.
DisruptHR Huntsville · September 15, 2026
20 slides. Five minutes. No room for corporate jargon.
Four ideas that travel.
Workforce Architecture
The Myth of the Workforce Shortage
Why we should examine the work before blaming the workforce.
CEO Growth Architecture
From Operator to Growth Architect
moving from doing the work to designing systems that scale.
Leadership Through Disruption
Build. Break. Rebuild.
what entrepreneurship teaches when the original plan stops working.
Purpose & Performance
The Dignity of Work
why human dignity and enterprise performance reinforce each other.
Media & Recognition.
SingleShop’s launch drew coverage from the New York Post (December 1999), USA Today (January 2000), The Washington Post and BusinessWeek (March 2000). The defining moment came at Red Herring’s Venture Fair South: selected among four finalists from 44 presenters, Mike won a $5 million PTEK investment in the event’s Million Dollar Challenge. The national coverage captured an early Internet idea becoming a venture-backed business.
Bring an operating perspective to the room.
Mike is available for interviews and commentary on workforce transformation, entrepreneurship, M&A, growth, and institutional leadership.