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"Michael has high energy and great interpersonal skills. He uses real world examples from a broad range of industries. He was flexible to our needs and delivered excellent leadership content and support materials. He offered real world class training and facilitation. His message was very inspiring and he prepared me for a power-packed and rewarding journey."

Cheryl Flynn - SVP of Human Resources, NCH Corporation

"This leadership session was not just about the concepts and tools that one can use - I am inspired to be a better leader. I have been to a lot of leadership classes;  Michael just seems to be above many of the other presenters that I have seen."

Jessica Kelly, Busch Gardens Florida

"This was an excellent leadership program. My expectations were far exceeded. I would recommend this program to anyone. I will be certified and implementing this same program back in our organization. Michael was a fantastic facilitator. His stories and examples were relevant and really a benefit to the content. It was an honor and privilege to meet him. Thanks for an excellent program."

Kimberly Hendryx, Bush Gardens Florida

"Presenter was an excellent facilitator that offered very good leadership material, was very inter-active, created a safe sharing environment, presented in a way that was very clear and applicable to use."

Ginese Smith - Information Technology, Darden Restaurants

"Michael was very knowledgeable and an excellent facilitator and the materials were well organized. Michael was a great speaker and engaged everyone to get the most out of the program. He leveraged the participants' knowledge and experience in the room."

Chase Brackert, Darden Restaurant

"This session was excellent!  It opened my mind to the leadership opportunities I have and how significant I can impact my own life and my team. Michael was an excellent facilitator. Thank you!  Great Job!. This was a wonderful leadership opportunity."

Nicole Bain - Darden Restaurants

"The Leadership session was excellent. Michael was a phenomenal presenter. I came away from the work session excited to apply some of the leadership tools we learned. I feel anyone could benefit from this information - both business and personally."

Ed Mayer, Mitsubishi Power Systems

"This was an excellent value for time and money invested. This was an excellent presentation and material."

Terry Lloyd, Kissimmee Airport

"I really enjoyed the strategy execution section the best. It was very thorough and I had many "A-ha moments in the work session. Michael is very knowledgeable, confident, organized, and used great examples. He was fantastic!"

Shana Llalla Jian, Castrol Oil

"Great presentation and leadership materials. Michael was truly an expert and knew the material well and addressed all of the questions with great insight and knowledge."

Kari Saddler, Tampa General Hospital

"This leadership class definitely pointed out my strengths and weaknesses both personally and professionally. I have already told our team members to take this class. Michael was very thorough did a great job clearly explaining concepts and driving towards applications. I know have clarity on what I need to do to be a better leader."

Danielle Munell, BP America

"Mike was a great presenter and offered many real life examples. He was good at listening to everyone's questions and teaching practical skills that will help to successfully impact me and my team."

Rita Pop, BP America

"Michael was an excellent presenter/instructor. He provided excellent material with personal experiences brought into context of the material that was very effective. He truly lives and believes what he is teaching."

Ryan Shea, BP America

"Michael was excellent. He has a gift of being able to teach each individual and not just the group. He provided great examples and how they apply to the teachings. I know feel I have to perspectives, principles, and tools that I know will make me a great leader. I am excited to practice what I have learned."

Shannon Gehrt, BP America

"This leadership course has moved me to action and moved me emotionally unlike all other previous courses attended. I need to focus on my work-life balance and reconnect to the most important people in my life. Michael thoroughly understood the material and delivered it in a way that connected with the group. I appreciate his proper pacing and attentions to timeliness."

John McCann, BP Amoco Chem

"Michael was an excellent speaker. The leadership content was excellent and profound. Michael was easily understandable, clear, memorable, and included great real-life stories to make the material come alive. I like the personal examples from Michael as he showed detailed knowledge of the material."

Adrian Sharpe, BP America

"I was skeptical coming into this leadership class. I was thinking only of my workload when I return to work. I was pleasantly surprised with the content applicability both personally and professionally. Mike was a great speaker and allowed learning and flow to happen at a great pace. Thank you very much!"

Adam Clausing, BP, ILS

"I have known Michael for approximately seven years and have worked closely with him for three of those years in our Organizational Change and Strategy practice in New York City. Michael was very intelligent with a particular grasp of the complex interaction between variables of organizational life and the results that business were able to accomplish. While at A&P engagement, Michael was responsible for educating and coaching hundreds of managers on the new leadership and values paradigm and the new requirements for business success. I received feedback from the client that his work was outstanding and that he was highly regarded by the managers he taught. He worked for NYS Workers Compensation Board where he designed and delivered leadership development, strategy, and organizational change framework for a company-wide business process change initiative. Again, the quality of his executive coaching and his work much exceeded the client's expectations and he was personally credited with helping the organization to make dramatic progress in its change agenda. He has a capacity to quickly grasp the diverse complexity of different kinds of organizations and to find ways to interact with them successfully for improve results. Michael is a man of unusual capability and strength of character. Often, we worked under very tight time and performance pressures and he always did what ever it took to focus on the job at hand and do it in a constructive way. While we had a consulting group that was distinguished, not only for the quality of its work, but for the culture of collaboration and mutual respect, Michael was the embodiment of those qualities. There is about him a fundamental decency, sincerity, and strength of purpose that is often nothing less than inspiring."

Dr. Michael Chayes, Managing Partner, PwC Strategic and Organizational Change Practice.

"The GAPtitude Leadership and Strategic Change program at A&P has been an outstanding organization-wide success and has helped all levels of management and employees understand the common values that we espouse. The GAPtitude program provided each line of business with a common strategic focus, measurement metrics, accountability for results, and a focus on the internal and external customers that we must continually seek to satisfy."

Christian Haub, President and CEO, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company

"The Workers Compensation Board has partnered for the past two years to design, manage, and implement a new workers claim process. We have been able to utilize consulting experience and a superior methodology to help us redesign our claims processes and improve our organizational capability to better satisfy our customers. Michael helped design a leadership development program and continuous improvement metrics that was delivered to senior managers throughout the State of New York. Both of these programs were successful in helping senior management clarify new roles, responsibilities, and competencies to be effective as we moved forward. As part of our Board change efforts, Michael and his team traveled to each District office and helped design, train, and implement key change activities from our OPTICS change process. This change effort was critical to help transfer skills, change activities, timelines, and implement the day-to-day tasks that were required pre- and post-implementation of a new process. Michael also helped develop and helped implement what the Chairman of the Board, Bob Snashell called "a first class communications plan dealing with all of our key internal and external stakeholders.""

John McDermott, Director of Operations/Information Systems, State of New York, Workers' Compensation Board

"Your engaging presentation and discussions greatly enhanced our understanding and adoption of 7 Habits leadership development processes. I have to agree with one of my staff who said this program was the single most important class he had taken in his entire Federal career. Thanks again."

Michele Zenon, Acting Director. Information Management and Services Division. U.S. EPA, Washington, DC.

"Mr. Simpson, on behalf of the U.S. EPA's Region III office in Philadelphia, PA, I'd like to again thank you for your consulting on "A Principled-based Approach to Empowerment and Effective Customer Service." Again, thank you for all the work you have done with our employees and certified facilitators at our regional office."

Bob Mitkus, Manager, U.S. EPA

"Thank you for your facilitator certification and your on-going commitment to the success of 7 Habits and Principle Centered Leadership at Saturn. I was impressed with the thought, care, and professionalism that was evident in the design and implementation of the program. True growth occurs from an awareness of these principles and how we seek to model these principles over time."

Laurie Danko, Team Leader, Training & Development, Saturn Corporation

"Leadership Week and has been invaluable has provided invaluable thinking on how we want to sustain our effective culture at Saturn."

Fred Harburg, Saturn Corporation

"Synergy has come together between management and union at Saturn, when you bring people together, when we were proactive, when we sought to understand each other, the result of synergy or the best answers that came out of the mutual benefit of the groups have save Saturn literally millions of dollars in cost savings."

Mike Bennett, UAW Manufacturing Advisor, GM

"Our leadership efforts in leading are pure effectiveness - both personal and professional effectiveness. We are able to reduce the amount of agony and anxiety in this organization. It improves focus around team goals and objectives and drives the values of this organization. In fact, it heightens personal relationships because we start to understand each other. We build relationships and trust and all these things make us more effective individuals."

Joe Rypkowski, UAW Vice President, Vehicle Assembly, GM

"The work of Kurt Lewin's force-field analysis was useful for us to understand and visualize many of the organizational dynamic forces that we are experiencing. The commitment that I saw from our management and executive team was remarkable; I appreciated the commitment to honestly discuss difficult business issues. Great Job Mike. Thank you."

Participant. GM / Packard Electric

"It is important for me to review my Leadership Profile Action Plans and continue to put my leadership plans into action. Your coaching and honest feedback on my profile results was very helpful. I have a renewed commitment to further balance my roles and re-connect to my personal mission statement."

Participant. GM / Packard Electric.

"Mike, you have helped us better understand and apply Principle-Centered Leadership and management principles of quality to enhance the mission of LANL. We are in a rapidly changing organization, during the past few years, I have learned so much about developing my personal mission, managing people, prioritizing my time, and improving many of my personal and professional relationships."

Mike Barnes, Managers Training & Development. Los Alamos National Laboratory.

"The Leadership Program that you conducted for Dow Chemical's Occupational Health, Research and Development, and Environmental Affairs Operation was outstanding. Dow has had tremendous value in applying the 7 Habits Dow-wide. We are deeply indebted to you for sharing your time and talents with us to further understand the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. After speaking to most of the participants, they truly believe that your program and the content had a profound effect on them. We are looking forward to working with you in an ongoing way with our newly certified facilitators."

Vern May, Director, Health and Environmental Sciences, Dow Chemical

"It was a real pleasure as well as a very positive learning experience to participate with you in the recent leadership training course. Of the five that I've attended, I felt that you did the best job of keeping things moving at a good pace and in a way that helped people understand and apply the principles taught. You focus on both content and application appropriately. I hope we have a chance to work together in the future."

Dr. Perry Gehring, Vice President Research & Development, Dow Agro

"Our management team has recently participated in the 360-degree leadership assessment program and leadership center training. Principle-Centered Leadership is equally as important organizationally as well as personally. Thanks to Mike for helping us link our Total Quality initiatives to timeless principles that are foundational to our success."

Gene Dagenhardt, Manager, Quality Improvement, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.

"While working in Management and Organizational Development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, my main role has been to assist leaders in managing culture change. I have worked with Mike for several years in applying 7 Habits and PCL. I have found tremendous value with our partnership and our organizational results with Management Training, Empowerment, and Continuous Quality Improvement programs. Thank you for working with our facilitator certification. I enjoyed your presentation and practical approach."

Nancy Monson, Management and Organizational Development. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

"The way the 7 Habits have impacted our group has and is what I would call the main development of our team. People trust each other, people help each other accomplish mutually beneficial goals. They help each other accomplish their jobs better to the degree of their capability."

Willard Jule, Manager, Quality, Administration, & Planning, Westinghouse Savannah River Company

"It has been a privilege working with you to implement Principle-Centered Leadership with Westinghouse Savannah River Company. Our consulting association during the past five years has benefited me personally and professionally on many levels. I have consistently been impressed with the attitude in which you approach every situation. As Project Manager, I have relied heavily on your expertise and advice in areas of new product development, organizational development, and legal issues pertaining to our licensing agreement. Your knowledge and skill in application of management principles and processes has been an invaluable asset to Westinghouse."

Brenda Kelly, Senior Quality Consultant, Productivity and Quality Programs Division, Westinghouse Savannah River Company

"I have had the opportunity over the past several months to work with a number of people in our organization that helped us provide Principle-Centered Leadership concepts and applications. Michael Simpson has been very helpful and a delight to work with. His guidance through our corporate wide initiative has been excellent. I am convinced we would not have had the overwhelming success without his assistance. Thank you for helping us implement these principles and practices with great results."

Joseph Cannon, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers

"I would like to sincerely thank Mike Simpson for his contributions to our organization and help as a member of our Board of Directors. Project Read is a volunteer organization teaching non-literate adults to read. Our qualified staff and administration seek to organize teachers and tutors to provide a strong one-on-one tutorial program to enable non-literate adults to improve their reading and writing skills sufficiently to achieve their goals and to be effective citizens. We honor the uniqueness of each individual and seek to enhance their self esteem through the improvement of skills and interaction with our group. As a result of Michael's Weekly 7 Habits instruction and coaching, our administrative team has broadened their individual and organizational perspectives. We have been able to more clearly focus on our important priorities and to set realistic goals."

Norma Henrie, Director, Project Read.

"I have known and worked with Michael Simpson for four years. Mike provides cutting-edge thinking and interdependence. His abundance and holistic thinking helps to get to root cause understanding. He is a student of what we teach and seeks to live it in his life. Mike has excellent presenting skills and has been an extremely valuable team player and contributor with clients and his focused level of sales and business development. He has been of great value to the Covey Leadership Center."

Kevin Cope, Vice President, Client Services Group, Covey Leadership Center

"Mike is one of our teams' top producers within our region and has the desire and abilities to excel at whatever tasks he applies himself. He has demonstrated his abilities to closely analyze, clearly articulate, apply and share best practices with clients and individuals with whom he works. As a consultant, he is extremely talented, organized, and capable."

Dr. Jeffrey R. Hill, Managing Consultant, Client Services Group, Covey Leadership Center.

"I have worked with Mike over the past five years at Covey Leadership Center and have found him to be an individual of outstanding character and competence. He has strong integrity and is, in my judgment, an excellent model of the principles we teach. I have worked extensively with him on numerous client engagements. Consistently, I found him to be a very effective consultant. He is bright, talented, relates well to people, works hard, and is disciplined. He has the ability to listen empathically to client's needs and then translate that into business solutions. He has consistently been one of the top performers in our organization. He thinks abundantly and is similarly rewarded. In my current role as President, I count on Mike to be one who always brings solutions and not just problems to team and company challenges."

Stephen M.R. Covey, President and CEO, Covey Leadership Center

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