Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, & Organizations

Michael K. Simpson is one of the world’s preeminent business coaches to CEOs, Presidents, and senior executives and teams in over 30 countries. He is a leadership expert and management consultant, having spent more than twenty-five years on the vanguard of leading individual, strategic, and organizational change as an author, speaker, senior consultant to FranklinCovey—where he taught at the Executive Leadership Summit with Dr. Stephen Covey and Dr. Ram Charan—and is currently program director and lead faculty for the Department of Defense's Vanguard leadership week in Washington, DC for senior U.S. military and civilian executives from Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, NASA, NATO, DIA, DLA, DOJ, OPM, VA, and other government agencies. Michael is an executive coaching and management consultant to corporations including: Marriott, Hilton, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Eli Lilly, Nike, ExxonMobil, Xerox, John Deere, Petronas, HSBC Bank Malaysia, OCBC Bank Singapore, Hewlett Packard, and TE Connectivity to name a few. In addition to his practical business experience, Michael brings academic acumen to his work, having taught and been a guest lecturer at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China, Hong Kong University, University of Malaysia, Columbia College, and Brigham Young University's Kennedy School of International Relations, Marriott School of Management, and Fulton School of Engineering. His published works include: Your Seeds of Greatness, Talent Unleashed; Ready, Aim, Excel; The Execution-focused Leader with PwC, and Building Team and Organizational Trust, co-authored with Stephen M.R. Covey. When he’s not busy coaching executives to optimize the performance of their teams, Michael enjoys traveling, snow skiing and spending time with his family in the beautiful Wasatch Mountains of Utah.