Michael Lorsch

Background

Michael is a versatile executive consultant/coach with 26 years of management and leadership experience. He has held leadership positions in a number of successful organizations. Just prior to his work with The Table Group, he served on the senior leadership team of the Make–A–Wish Foundation® of America where he led efforts in overall program delivery (wishes) and was instrumental in initiating their industry leading corporate university. He also oversaw efforts related to Make–A–Wish’s interaction with the celebrity industry.

Michael is a highly sought after keynote speaker and is known for his engaging, fast–paced, fun and highly interactive sessions. He consistently receives high marks for speeches and to put it simply, he won’t need a podium!

Michael has great passion for Patrick’s methods and he learned them first as a leader and subsequently as a consultant. This has provided him with a real–time understanding of the methods that can be translated to leadership teams in a thorough and practical way.

His approachable style, use of humor, and command of Table Group content has allowed him to have widespread impact on a diverse set of client companies.

Clients

Experience

Michael is a pure consultant with a passionate drive to help CEO’s and executive teams to overcome team dysfunction and create powerful organizational clarity that leads to profound business and bottom-line impact. His number one goal: that the work that he does with teams — sticks.

In addition to consulting and speaking, Michael is a popular executive coach with a no nonsense approach to helping top leaders to identify and eliminate longstanding behavioral shortcomings that have hindered their overall impact.

Michael holds an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and a Master’s of Organization and Management from Capella University in Minneapolis Minnesota.

He and his wife April make their home in Mesa, Arizona along with their four children Ryan, Justin, Hannah, and Patrick. His hobbies include guitar, BYU football, walking, reading, and mostly spending time with wife, kids, and grandkids.

Endorsements

“I would highly recommend his services...”

“We met with several business consultants and were not comfortable moving forward with any of them, until we met Michael. His charismatic personality, wit and knowledge allowed him to dive quickly into our business, go deep and wide to help us find our strengths and challenges, and you know he made it fun. With his help we were able to work together better and smarter towards our common goals. He is definitely "sticky" someone you learn a lot from and his help sticks with you! I would highly recommend his services, we will have him back.”

—Libby Ekre, Co-Founder, Morrison, Ekre, and Bart

“The result...has been higher performing teams...”

“Michael has worked with our organization on several occasions at the senior leadership and program leadership levels. He helped both teams come together at critical times for the team and the organization. The result in both cases has been higher performing teams that are better positioned to lead the organization to achieve our business plan goals.”

—Beth Porter, Vice President, Freedom From Hunger

“We left with...an understanding (and eagerness to practice) the disciples of organizational health”

“Michael worked with our leadership team on the Five Dysfunctions. Despite the sensitive and challenging nature of the topic, our workshop was entertaining, accessible, and exceptionally productive. We left with tools for understanding one another's work styles, a sense of our strengths and weaknesses as a team, new models for meetings and planning and evaluation, and an understanding (and eagerness to practice) the disciplines of organizational health.”

—Chrisitne Sharer, CEO, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Utah

“It has changed our culture.”

“Michael introduced our organization to several new concepts. The most important was organizational clarity. We were able to create plans and implement them with much more detail and efficiency as a result of his assistance. Michael taught us that we need to have a bias for action and a passion for knowledge. He gave us an approach to problem solving that, with the focus of the entire organization, produces outstanding results. Michael helped us identify what our core values really are. It has changed our culture. With Michael's help, we are incorporating these values into our systems and procedures. Michael is vibrant and it is apparent that he loves what he does. His energy is almost immediately obvious and you can't help but catch his enthusiasm. His classroom environment is extremely interactive. No one was bored, they were too busy working in small groups. We also asked Michael to do some one-on-one coaching of our managers. This gave our managers access to someone outside the organization whom they could trust to help them in the areas they felt they needed to improve. We did see improvement in these individuals. Michael is very personable and puts you at ease and open to listen as he presents these tested concepts that can truly change your organization. I highly recommend Michael.”

—Karen Sack, Vice President, Space Coast Credit Union

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