Michael Stanleigh
SMichael Stanleigh has a reputation for helping organizations define their strategic direction, manage change, become more innovative, improve the performance of their leadership and successfully execute their projects. He has been fortunate to consult and advise some of the most admired organizations in the world. As a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants (FCMC) and CEO of Business Improvement Architects, Michael shares his consulting wisdom and secrets for operational success with organizations to help them succeed.
Michael's broad experience and expertise in operational effectiveness has helped his clients achieve their goals. Michael increases leadership performance through strategic planning, creates cultures and customized processes that drive innovation, improves key business processes through business process management and reengineering and manages the impact of these organizational changes.
As a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) Michael loves to share his business secrets for operational success with business audiences around the world. Michael involves audiences in understanding and managing change and business leaders in getting to the root cause of their business problems and generating effective solutions. He has a tremendous way, during corporate events, of engaging leaders and employees in a creative process of idea generation for the front-end of innovation. His content rich presentations are delivered with the same passion, spark, energy and creativity that he gives to his business clients.
As a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Michael provides consulting, coaching and customized training for Project Management Offices, Project Leaders and Project Teams on managing projects, creating project plans, conducting project audits and undertaking project risk assessments. As a Scrum Master he uses his expertise in Hybrid/Agile processes to create unique approaches to continued project success.
Today, Michael consults, trains, coaches and mentors public and private sector organizations throughout the world. Michael has been featured and published in over 500 different magazines and industry publications around the world. He is a faculty member for the Gardiner Institute at Memorial University, CPA Ontario, Institute of Internal Auditors and Leadership USA™. Michael is a member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC Canada), the Scrum Alliance, the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and the Global Speakers Federation.
Michael's Most Requested Presentations:
- Innovation: From Vision to Reality
- Next Generation Project Management through Hybrid Agile
- Risk Based Project Auditing
- Organizational Change that Sticks
- Creating An Agile PMO
Michael has been fortunate to consult and advise some of the most admired organizations in the world including:
- American Society for Quality
- Project Management Institute
- RGA Reinsurance
- Zodiac Aerospace Evacuation Systems
- Manulife
- Human Resource Professionals Association
- CPA Associations
- Sherwood Valve
- Excellence Finland
- European Organization for Quality
- Institute of Internal Auditors
- Canadian Society of Association Executives
- Memorial University
- Wilfred University
- Erco Worldwide
- The Chamberlain Group
- Hussmann Corporation
- Ingersoll-Rand
- Abbott Laboratories
- Baxter Corporation
- CGI
- Bank of Nova Scotia
- Saputo
- Everbridge
- Federal Reserve Board
- SITA Information Technology
SMichael Stanleigh has a reputation for helping organizations define their strategic direction, manage change, become more innovative, improve the performance of their leadership and successfully execute their projects. He has been fortunate to consult and advise some of the most admired organizations in the world. As a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants (FCMC) and CEO of Business Improvement Architects, Michael shares his consulting wisdom and secrets for operational success with organizations to help them succeed.
Michael's broad experience and expertise in operational effectiveness has helped his clients achieve their goals. Michael increases leadership performance through strategic planning, creates cultures and customized processes that drive innovation, improves key business processes through business process management and reengineering and manages the impact of these organizational changes.
As a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) Michael loves to share his business secrets for operational success with business audiences around the world. Michael involves audiences in understanding and managing change and business leaders in getting to the root cause of their business problems and generating effective solutions. He has a tremendous way, during corporate events, of engaging leaders and employees in a creative process of idea generation for the front-end of innovation. His content rich presentations are delivered with the same passion, spark, energy and creativity that he gives to his business clients.
As a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Michael provides consulting, coaching and customized training for Project Management Offices, Project Leaders and Project Teams on managing projects, creating project plans, conducting project audits and undertaking project risk assessments. As a Scrum Master he uses his expertise in Hybrid/Agile processes to create unique approaches to continued project success.
Today, Michael consults, trains, coaches and mentors public and private sector organizations throughout the world. Michael has been featured and published in over 500 different magazines and industry publications around the world. He is a faculty member for the Gardiner Institute at Memorial University, CPA Ontario, Institute of Internal Auditors and Leadership USA™. Michael is a member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC Canada), the Scrum Alliance, the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and the Global Speakers Federation.
Michael's Most Requested Presentations:
- Innovation: From Vision to Reality
- Next Generation Project Management through Hybrid Agile
- Risk Based Project Auditing
- Organizational Change that Sticks
- Creating An Agile PMO
Michael has been fortunate to consult and advise some of the most admired organizations in the world including:
- American Society for Quality
- Project Management Institute
- RGA Reinsurance
- Zodiac Aerospace Evacuation Systems
- Manulife
- Human Resource Professionals Association
- CPA Associations
- Sherwood Valve
- Excellence Finland
- European Organization for Quality
- Institute of Internal Auditors
- Canadian Society of Association Executives
- Memorial University
- Wilfred University
- Erco Worldwide
- The Chamberlain Group
- Hussmann Corporation
- Ingersoll-Rand
- Abbott Laboratories
- Baxter Corporation
- CGI
- Bank of Nova Scotia
- Saputo
- Everbridge
- Federal Reserve Board
- SITA Information Technology
Organizational Change that Sticks
Despite all the rhetoric, books, effort and money thrown into change efforts, most organizational change efforts fail. There are so many things that leaders and employees do that creates a lack of buy-in to the management of change. We don't always do these intentionally; however, the result is generally the opposite of what we'd hoped for.
Leaders receive continuous requests to manage change. Front-line staff are quickly thrown into training workshops in the hope that this will...
Creating an Innovtion Centre of Excellence
Creating an Innovation Centre of Excellence is the driving force that takes an organization forward to realize their innovation mandate. It encompasses the process of creating an innovation strategy, re-shaping the culture to be more innovative and implementing an innovation process. We'll discuss examples from organizations around the world, how they created their strategy, culture and process for innovation and what their Innovation Centre of Excellence looks...
Innovation: From Vision to Reality
Engage your participants in the entire process of creating, developing and implementing innovations. They will gain knowledge in how to use the innovation process to create and/or improve products, services, processes, structures, etc.
One key learning for all participants will be the awareness that the trick to innovation is not in the tools, rather it is in knowing how to take the tools and use them through a process from idea...
Reduce Project Stress through Project Quality and Audit Reviews
Overview
Corporations throughout the world are losing millions in wasted project spending and this waste is being carefully hidden from management and investors. The cost of the problem is staggering. We'll never know about the many projects in crisis in the companies in which you or I may hold shares. The reality is that examples can be found from just about every type of organization. We're left wondering what it would take to...
Surprising Ways to Create Events that are More Refreshing than new socks
Overview
We try to increase attendance at our events but use the same tried and true formulas. It's time to break away from what has always been done in the past and create something fresh and new that will create events that no one will want to miss. Through innovation I can help you stand apart and exceed the expectations of your attendees.
Most of us have read about Innovation, heard about Innovation...
The Lion's Den - Engaging Employees in the Front-End of Innovation
If you are looking for an engaging and fun way to spark innovation among employees you will like this idea that I call; "Lion's Den." The premise of "Lion's Den" is to encourage employees to pitch their innovative new ideas and concepts for the business to the leadership team with the hope that the leadership will recognize the value of their ideas and implement them. The payback they will receive, if they successfully "sell" their...
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