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Mike Jay
President
Leadership University
Mike Jay has been a professional business and executive coach, consultant and accomplished entrepreneur for more than 40 years. As a business leader for much of his life, he has experienced first-hand what it means to deal with difficult management issues. As a serial entrepreneur he has participated in his share of "successful failures." Mike's broad business background adds a depth of real-world knowledge to his ability to connect with clients, audiences and organizations.

As an award winning U.S. Marine, Mike parlayed his military leadership experience into cutting-edge agribusiness and was a nationally featured agribusiness innovator. He received his Bachelor degree from Texas A&M University, where he also won the highest award for senior athletes, the "Aggie Heart Award" leading the 1975 Aggies to a Southwest Conference Football Championship as a quarterback. Mike's experience in leadership led to management success in medicine, hospitality and business services. He went back to graduate school at the age of 40 to study Business & Organizational Behavior. After coaching managers in a business and corporate environment for over 20 years, Mike founded a premiere business & executive coach training system, www.b-coach.com, when he realized the way leaders communicate and develop was key to leadership success.

Mike has been featured in international publications for his innovative work with employees in more than 27 countries. His service to people in businesses such as Coca-Cola, Exxon, EDS, Ford, General Dynamics, and other business leaders through 1000s of coaching sessions is the hallmark of success and generosity. Continuously learning and evolving while learning and sharing knowledge with others has led to broad experience all over the world in coaching, consulting and leadership.

Mike is the author of numerous articles, training programs and digital books including:
  • COACH2 THE BOTTOM LINE: "An Executive Guide to Coaching Performance, Change and Transformation in Organizations"
  • RightAction - RightResults: "A Strategic Leadership System for Discovering and Operationalizing What Really Matters"
  • COACHING as a Transformational Leadership Competency
  • CPR For The Soul: Creating Personal Resilience By Design, and
  • a book in progress called Upping The Down Side: Creating Professional Resilience By Design

Degrees and certifications

  • BS, AnSc - Texas A&M University, Texas, United States 1978
  • Master Business Coach, ICBC
  • Certified Corporate Business Coach
  • Myers-Briggs Certified
  • Certified in iWAM Metaprograms Assessment
  • Certified in Emotional Intelligence Competency Training
  • Certified in Spiral Dynamics Integral
  • Certified Foodservice Management Professional - Cornell University
  • Certified Resilience Training
  • Certified InfoTool Organizational Assessment

Contact Info

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Ron Capelle is unique in his multiple professional certifications, his implementation of RO concepts through well designed organization development methods, and his research documenting the effectiveness of his firm's interventions
Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design
Requisite Organization International Institute distributes Elliott Jaques's books, papers, and videos and provides RO-based training to client organizations