Today's world is as unsettled and uncertain as it has been in our lifetime. Even historically predictable life tasks like how and where we go to work lack definitive answers. With the benefit of extensive leadership education and real-life experience, combined with over thirteen years of commercial real estate-focused in the office sector, I became intrigued and invested in the future of work. What I discovered is that for these centers of business to thrive the community of workers must thrive. However, as I became more and more invested in these external communities, as I approached the midpoint of life, I was concerned this effort was starting to come at the expense of my community of my family. In 2019, I left my role as COO, to regroup, and focus on the future of work while also being fully invested in my wife and two daughters. I authored The Legacy Business as a rallying cry for myself, but also as a way to encourage the countless others I encountered contemplating the same things. I would be honored to dialog about the concepts and themes encapsulated in this book.
Mike was born and raised in Southern Oregon with his parents and younger brother. From there, he spent four years at West Point. During the subsequent five years of service as an officer in the U.S. Army, he worked in Finance with assignments in Ft. Hood, Kosovo, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. After the Army, Mike went back to school, earning his MBA at Yale University's School of Management. He went on to work for a commercial real estate firm, eventually serving as COO. He left that firm and began his own company, Workng, which focused on strategizing about and operating work environments of the future. Mike most recently published a personal and reflective book, The Legacy Business, where he discusses a variety of topics he considers critical to his future success as a husband, dad, friend, and leader. Mike lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife Stacey and two teenage daughters.
