With a background both in political polling and employee research, Mike delivers customized qualitative and quantitative research projects for individual clients, and works with the Centre for Strategic Communication Excellence (CSCE) on broader, subscription-based initiatives
Current research focuses on:
Building on available research, good questions and deep listening, Mike builds communication strategies at the organizational level, for developing communication functions, for supporting key projects and initiatives, and to reduce organizational noise.
Key strategic strengths include: superconnection (programs that accelerate the creation and integration of new personal relationships within organizations), employee advocacy, grassroots lobbying/mobilization, adoption and embrace of communication platforms, M&A communication, and internal audience targeting.
Strategies are meaningless if they don’t have the power to inspire, connect and mobilize the right people - or worse if they alienate them or misjudge their motives..
Mike brings strategies to life through the development of written content for organizations and their leaders and by working with experts in video and multimedia production to make ideas real in more diverse and tangible ways.
Mike’s training activities focus on communication leadership - building the confidence of communication pros, leaders and employees when it comes to thought leadership, employee advocacy, and taking initiative to make things happen in their organizations and communities.
