| Michael is recognized internationally as a leading
innovator and trainer in education and youth leadership. In the past 20
years. Michael has made presentations in 47 of the states in the U.S.
and on 5 of the 7 continents. He is a nationally award-winning speaker,
educator, and author known for his dynamic, highly entertaining style
and practical, "use-it-immediately" focus. He presents original
material that he has developed himself from over 30 years of front-line
experience and is a frequent keynote and workshop presenter.
Now a full-time speaker and consultant, Michael has been a trial lawyer,
a writer and performer for two years on an Emmy award-winning educational
television program in Chicago, is a graduate of the famed Second City
improv theater school in Chicago, and has been a professional magician
for over 25 years. Michael wrote and performed in a live production
in Chicago with Jim Henson's Muppets for the American Library Association
and HBO.
Michael wrote and presented three 1999 Emmy award-winning public television
programs on communicating with young people that was broadcast on PBS
stations throughout the U.S. in 2000. He has written a best-selling
staff training book and has received two of the American Camping Association's
highest national honors for his development and presentations of original
training materials. In 1998, Successful Meetings magazine named Michael
as one of its two top speakers in its annual review of outstanding presenters.
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