Michael Nicholls

About Michael Nicholls

Use my teaching background and business consulting experience to create educational programs that have a positive financial impact; design programs that reflect organizational culture and message strategies while attending to business brand and stakeholder objectives. Strengths include new business development, curriculum design, and the delivery of high performance team building and leadership development training programs (and an ability to effectively teach management skills at all levels of administration). I typically use my educational background and successful career track record to help bridge the gap between providing an educational service and demonstrating value-added relationships to clients.10 - 20 years experience in Leadership development (20+), team building (20+), program facilitation (20+), organizational development consulting (16), sales and account management (16), curriculum development and program design (14)Specialties: High performance team building, inspirational leadership development, curriculum design, organizational development, and the ability to look at a market through the lens of an Economic Geographer.

Experience

1. Chief Learning Officer, Director of Leadership Development & Curriculum Design

   Team Concepts, Inc

   Dec 1999 — Present

   Curriculum designer for executive training programs focusing on creating, developing, and sustaining high performance teams. Work with client senior executives, subject matter experts, HR, and OD professionals to design and facilitate client-specific experiential management development programs that directly impact their bottom line. Manage and train national network of facilitators and virtual business partners to ensure training program brand integrity and delivery. Direct curriculum assessment, design, and evaluation; conduct needs analysis; organizational development planning; train-the-trainer instruction; and management training. Develop new business; International training experience in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.Clients include Marathon, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, UPS, NASA, Vanguard, Merck, Ritz-Carlton, US Trust, Penske, Home Depot, General Mills, Eaton, US Marine Corps, GSK, Fulbright Scholars, Wharton School of Business, Harvard Business School, Darden School of Business, Kelley School of Business, Columbia University Business School, Booth School of Business, and Kenan-Flagler School of Business

Education

• University of Minnesota

  BA, Liberal Arts

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  MA, Economic Geography

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Ph.D., Economic Geography

  1992 — 1999

Skills

• Coaching
• Data Analysis
• Management Consulting
• Project Planning
• Leadership Development
• Curriculum Development
• Human Resources
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Program Management
• Nonprofits
• Performance Improvement
• Teaching
• Account Management
• Interpersonal Communication Abilities
• Team Leadership
• Research
• Training
• New Business Development
• Project Management
• Management
• Team Building
• Curriculum Design
• Executive Coaching
• Organizational Development
• Business Development
• Instructional Design
• Public Speaking