Better Decision-Making Using Emotional Intelligence

Michael serves as Managing Director of Metatropia Institute, a Dallas-based leadership development and change management firm. He is also a Senior Consultant for Stagen Leadership Institute, Teleos Leadership Institute, and Dynamic Results (feel free to web-search these organizations for additional information).Michael works with leaders to manage individual, team, and organizational change through executive coaching and collaborative leadership development. Michael's specialty is helping leaders navigate the complex and ever-changing dynamics of executive team and board relationships. He is often called upon to help leaders efficiently and effectively scale, merge, integrate and evolve their organizations. He looks past management fads and beyond what's popular to leverage both historical and contemporary approaches to drive better results.Michael uses an integral approach that considers the multi-dimensional aspects of people, business and the socio-economic environment. This approach integrates key facets of human development (interpersonal, emotional, intellectual, ethical, physical and spiritual) as the most effective and efficient way of developing leaders, the teams in which they work and the organizations they serve. He frequently delivers workshops on emotional intelligence and has extensive experience helping senior-level leaders develop trust and the values-centered leadership necessary for success. His work globally has brought key resources together to successfully leverage collective wisdom and increase creative collaboration in order to raise focused, productive energy and help solve seemingly intractable problems.Michael continues to serve the international community by facilitating organizations and aligning resources to address issues related to poverty, HIV/AIDS and women's empowerment. In the Dallas/Fort Worth area, he is helping to form the Center for Public Dialog - a multi-faith, multi-sector effort with goals to revitalize democratic processes, inform public policy and create beneficial change in local communities. In addition, Michael works with the Integral Institute's Business & Leadership Center to develop and disseminate ideas and applications that help organizations of all sizes to manage and succeed in our increasingly complex, ever-changing world.Throughout his career, Michael has designed and led major leadership, executive coaching, change, and learning projects for global and national clients, including American Airlines, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Exelon Energy, HSBC, Intel, Merck, MITRE, Motorola, Nortel Networks, Progressive Insurance, PwC, Sabre, Sepracor Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough, TXU, Texas Instruments, The Nature Conservancy, Unicredito Banca, Unilever, Wal-Mart, World Bank and YMCA. In addition, he has led major humanitarian projects, many for the United Nations, in regions around the globe: Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean.Michael is a truly global consultant - having lived and traveled all over the world. He is the son of a pilot, and has brought his love of exotic places to his wife Tracy and their children Cameron, Braeden and Kathryn. As a former hockey goaltender, he has cultivated the capacity to work well under extreme pressure. Michael received his doctorate in Organizational, Clinical and Experimental Psychology from the University of North Texas, and his Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Florida. He is a practicing licensed psychologist and a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland's renowned Organizational Systems and Development program.