Michael has been involved in lifestyle education, health & wellness promotion, training and organizational development since the mid-eighties.
Now living in Australia with his family, he runs a Mindfulness-Based Executive Coaching & Training business. Prior to this current chapter, Michael worked, managed, and trained people in 10 different countries (including four in Asia). He brings experience and insight to multi-cultural challenges especially in Middle Eastern and Asian-Australian situations.
With decades of senior managerial experience, Michael is a skilful communicator with finely tuned public presentation and group facilitation skills and delivers insightful and engaging executive coaching journeys and training seminars through interactive and science-based methodologies.
Still early on in his career, Michael worked as a somatic therapist and a trainer in clinics and centres in Australia, UK, the US and Canada. Adding to leadership roles, he was the Managing Director for a global Israeli FMCG brand, leading and developing manufacturing and distribution for a worldwide consortium of partner companies.
Later on, Michael successfully lead and supervised all the administrative, financial, and logistical operations for the Cambodian country program of a large international charity in the Aid & Development sector. The systems he developed were established as the standard training protocol for this worldwide organization in Asia, Africa the Middle East and Europe.
In his last full-time corporate role as a senior manager for the East West Learning Centre in Singapore, he focused on designing platforms to deliver an integrated Mind-Body approach to leadership education. He was also the CEO for an organization focused on stress-management in not for profits.
Back in Australia, Michael established his own training business and is coaching individuals and facilitating groups online and offline, writing and delivering programs with a focus on building resilience, cross-cultural communications, emotional intelligence and mind-fitness for executives and teams. He leads programs for Small Giants Academy, the School of Life, Upskilled Education and other vendors.
Michael holds a Master’s degree in Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, and completed a Cert. IV in Training & Assessment at the Eastern Training College in Victoria. He is currently undertaking a two years’ Teacher Training program in Mindfulness & Compassion with the Insight Meditation Society. He is on the Board of the Australian Compassion Council, and has been an associate of the Asian leadership Institute for over 20 years.