R. Michael Anderson
Remote & Hybrid Team / Workforce Expert | 3x Californian Software Entrepreneur
Best-Selling Author | Speaker, Trainer, Strategic Advisor
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R. Michael Anderson, MBA, MA has a striking combination that creates truly impactful transformation in leaders – he has the real-life business success of founding, scaling and exiting three software companies, plus the educational background of a Masters Degree in Psychology.
This combination gives him the unique ability to connect to other leaders as a peer, then teaches evidence-based leadership skills that genuinely drive behaviour and performance.
It’s the reason that Stanford University brings him into work with their start-up ecosystem, PwC has him work with their high growth CEO’s, and companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Uber bring him to level up their managers and executives.
Michael shares how his Californian companies landed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies, created a culture so strong that they won the #1 Best Place to work, and Michael himself was honoured as the Social Entrepreneur of the year. In 2005 he held the office of President of the Board of Directors for a chapter of Conscious Capitalism, an international organization dedicated to elevating humanity through business.
A gifted storyteller who shares his failures as much as his successes, the terms “vulnerable”, “authentic”, and “powerful” are often used to describe his presentations.
With his background in psychology and neuroscience, he transforms managers into true leaders with high-performing teams in high-growth companies. He’s written two best-selling business leadership books, contributes to Entrepreneur.com, and is a former radio-show host.
A former professional basketball player, the 6’8” Michael is hard to miss.
Michael came to speak to founders of our scale programme at PwC. As soon as he entered the room he brought warmth and energy which set the tone for an engaging and powerful leadership session. Our companies were very impressed with his insight. Their feedback included: "Excellent engaging presentation. Right on point, very interesting", "Perhaps most burning issues to many founders, very helpful", "Excellent - loved the energy, delivery and materials. Hit home on the leadership essentials."
Sarah Mack PwC ScaleLaw Tech Programme Lead at PwC 
Michael took a loose brief, covering lots of different topics of interest and wrapped it all up into a 75minute session covering leadership, productivity hacks, resilience and more, which resonated incredibly well with my team. We often have speaker sessions and Michael's was the highest rated of the year so far!
Ciarae Schumann Director, UK Regional Lead at Salesforce 
Michael gave a keynote speech during a Uber regional leadership team event. He was talking to a group of high-performers that started to feel the weight of too many stressful days, nights in the office, and constant uncertainty while running flat out for months. During the talk, Michael focused on: - efficient work vs "work" - prioritization - controlling oneself - forging and giving a response versus an emotional reaction to a situation - living and acting with compassion. He gave a number of personal stories, often spiced up with humour when touching on each topic. That also allowed the audience to personally connect to each situation and remember them going forward. Michael managed, only within one hour, to relax, energize and pump up the team to go head on into new challenges.
Davor Tremac General Manager | Uber 
Michael put together a comprehensive day for our YPO forum that allowed for deep and insightful conversations. His willingness to be vulnerable about important moments in his life set the tone for the day. We all left feeling much more connected and open to continuing the dialogues.
Brandon BlackExperienced CEO | Author of "Ego Free Leadership" 
DIGIT events had the pleasure of inviting Michael to present to some of Scotland's most influential IT & Digital Leaders in May 2017. Rather than waxing lyrical from an organisers point of view (I thought he was outstanding BTW) , here's what the delegates thought.
"Really enjoyed R. Michael Anderson and what a great way to finish."
"Would have loved to have had more time to cover Michael Andersons leadership presentations!"
"Excellent ideas on leadership, mesmerised!"
We're looking forward to welcoming Michael back to Scotland and wouldn't hesitate to recommend his unique style and content to any event organiser.
Ray BuggFounder at DIGIT.FYI 
Michael recently spoke at an event we produced for Scotland’s technology leaders. People found him to be an incredibly inspiring and motivational speaker, and we thought he shared some really constructive personal reflections and guidance around developing as a leader. We have had him involved before so had set the expectation benchmark pretty high, but he didn’t disappoint, and it was a pleasure to have him back.
Pete SwiftManaging Editor & Research Director at DIGIT 
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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES
Need to motivate and invigorate your team? Michael has 20 years of varied experience speaking at events, workshops and conferences.
COACHING & MENTORING
Multiple and tailor made options to fit around you and your lifestyle.
KEYNOTE TOPICS
Everyone has heard about emotional intelligence... now learn how to utilise it to make your team resilient, healthy and high performing
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LEADING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS
How Founding Three Businesses, Surviving Cancer, and playing Pro Basketball STILL makes me Unfit to Talk about Resilience
RESILIENCE, MOTIVATION & LEADERSHIP
How we Doubled Revenue & Profits during the Great Recession - and Won the #1 Place to Work
LEADING THROUGH CHANGE & ADVERSITY
Tools and Skills for a High-Performance Distributed Workforce
LEADING & MANAGING REMOTE & HYBRID TEAMS
The 5-Step System that Leaders of Every High-Growth Company Needs to Know
INSIDER SECRETS OF SCALING UP
Press Kit
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CONTACT MICHAEL
Are you ready to activate your highest performing leadership skills? Do you need guidance on how to be a more effective and strategic leader? Let me help you level up your leadership ability and change your life for the better.
