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.
What if we don’t have a shortage of workers? What if we have a shortage of work worth choosing, people prepared to perform, and systems designed to connect the two?
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 readiness, not merely supply, is the deeper challenge.
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.
RECENT ENGAGEMENTS
DisruptHR Huntsville · Veteran Institute for Procurement · NMSDC · Carnegie Mellon University · Seattle Pacific University
Bring an operating perspective to the room.
Mike is available for interviews and commentary on workforce transformation, entrepreneurship, M&A, growth, and institutional leadership.