THE BESTWORK PEOPLE

Marsha Shenk
Karen Aberle
Ellen Hoenig-Carlson
Michael MacNeill
Lisa Marshall
Dan Montgomery

Michael leads senior executives - those who excelled in a 20th century environment - to embrace new questions, new interpretations, and demands for new competence.

He is the founding partner of mac advisors, specializing in keeping senior level leaders at the top of their profession. He advises executives in the generation of winning strategies, to enhance leadership skills, address board goverance issues, sustain reliable high performance, and develop business. Currently, he maintains a select practice with corporate and entrepreneurial leaders in the US and Europe.

Michael's track record demonstrates a continuous history of leading highly effective senior teams and facilitating leaders in a variety of industries. Formerly, he co-founded Lee Hecht Harrison's global leadership development/coaching practice, a multi-million dollar consultancy working with senior leaders in Fortune 1000 companies in 150 locations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the South Pacific. He managed global sales, strategic accounts, and designed and delivered leadership initiatives to senior executives.

Michael began his career in banking and real estate finance. For over 25 years he sold, marketed and developed commercial real estate. He served as a broker, manager, and director or marketing for Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate and developed over $240 million worth of commercial property for his own firm, MacLand Properties, and for Fortune 1000 companies. He was a partner in Bay Group, the consulting firm that created Visa International/USA's world headquarters.

Michael graduated from Occidental College, where he studied as a CORO research fellow. In 1995, he took a sabbatical to study with a leading anthropologist in the areas of leadership philosophies, advanced coaching, and ancient and contemporary models of individual and team participation/contribution.

Michael has been a featured speaker around the U.S. on leadership effectiveness, breakthrough thinking, team building, and business development.