Michael Doyle (extended bio)

Michael Doyle is an international consultant with 30 years experience as a strategic planner, change consultant, and coach for leaders of large and complex organizations.

His focus in on product and process innovation, growth strategies and vision, fast track implementation, high performance organizational design, value chain and customer engagement and teamwork at all levels of the company.

His focus is high engagement Leadership- involving and energizing the whole system and value chain to enable the transformation and growth. He is a coach to leaders and senior management. Focusing on large scale organization change with Fortune 1000 companies the first part of his consulting career; he gets much more satisfaction on helping middle market companies transform and double their growth rate.

His expertise in teamwork and culture encourages the much fuller utilization of the intellectual, social and spiritual capital of the people and stakeholders in organizations, value chains and communities.

His Areas of Expertise

• Working with Organizations to double their Growth Rate
• Visioning and Growth Strategy
• Organizational Change and Transformation through High Involvement of Employees and Value Chain Stakeholders
• Innovation and Creativity
• Board Effectiveness
• Executive Team building and facilitation of Key planning retreats and meetings
• Executive Coaching

Michael is co-author of the best selling book on groups, How to Make Meetings Work, with over 800,000 copies in print in ten languages. He has published over 70 monographs and articles on strategic planning and implementation, visioning, facilitation, team building, coaching and change management.

He has lectured in organizational change and development in the Master’s Program on Organizational Development at Pepperdine University, in the MBA Program in Organizational Transformation at John F. Kennedy University, and the MPA Program at Golden Gate University. He also holds board positions for several companies and associations.

A few of his clients include Ford Design, Lucas Film, Palm, Intel, AMD, GE, IBM, Sony, Cadence Design Systems, the Army National Guard, EPA, US Geological Survey, DuPont, Hambrecht & Quist, NASA, Motorola, SRI, Cray Computers, the Asian Art Museum, Leroy Merlin (France) and the Chicago Art Institute.

He has been interviewed on radio, television and is quoted in many newspaper and magazine articles. He has written several training films on facilitating groups and meetings. Most recently, he was featured in the film, “Beyond the Dots,” a documentary on organizational strategy and visioning. He has been featured in the PBS radio series on Michael Phillips’ “Social Thought.” His topic was “Consensus Comes from Having a Common Memory.”

Past roles:
• Co-Founder and Product Architect, MemeWorks, Inc., SF1
• Senior Strategist, Touchstone Consulting Group, Washington, DC and San Francisco
• Chairperson, The Soft Bicycle Company, 1995-1999
• Associate, The Synergos Institute, New York, 1985-2000
• Chairperson, Saybrook Graduate School of Humanistic Psychology, 1998-99
• Chairman, The Rollo May Institute, 1997-98
• Board of Governors, ASTD 1992-94
• Board Member, The North Face, Inc., 1996-2000
• Chairman and CEO, Interaction Associates, 1973-1987
• Board Member, the Alameda Community Learning Center, 1996-1999
• Board member, The Support Center for Non-Profit Management 1973-1980
• Co founder and Board Member, the Environmental Workshop, 1969-1973
• Architect, Lawrence Halprin & Associates 1968-1970

Books

How to Make Meetings Work, Michael Doyle & David Straus, Little Brown and Company, 1976.  Over 800,000 copies in print in 8 languages  Still #1 in the Amazon list in this category after 30 years.
Forward, The Group Facilitator’s Handbook, New Society Publishers, 1996, by Sam Kaner, et al

“Beyond the Dots,” a documentary film on organizational strategy and visioning for school systems, 1991, featured presenter, co-designer.
“Facilitating Meetings,” a training film, 1986, co-designer.
“Meetings, Isn’t There a Better Way,” a training film, 1976, actor and advisor.

Team Design Member, Consensus@nyWARE, Dashboard@nyWARE, and Survey@nyWARE,
Lead Conceptual Software Architect, Surround™ Software Products
Leadership Surround, The Online Coach,

Articles

“Alive With Vision,” ASAE Journal ,  1990
“The Architect As Facilitator,” with David Straus, The Communications Forum, 1980.
“Why Your Organization Needs An Internal Problem Solving Center,” Training Magazine, 1980.
“Making Board Meetings Work,” with David Straus, Directors and Boards, The Journal of Corporate Action, summer 1978
The Key Elements of Collaborative Planning, Monograph, Interaction Associates, 1972

“Innovation Adoption Curve, Leaders Drive Innovation, Eight steps to Change, Six Thinking Hats, Good to Great, Keys to Great Visions, Keys to Strategy Implementation, The Individual Transition Cycle, etc…

• The Core Concepts in Strategic Planning, Towards building key strategic planning concepts into a digital library,  The Soft Bicycle Company,1997
• MemeWorld Ecology, n approach to a customizable digital content language for web based teamwork, performance improvement and role, team and organizational transformation, Memeworks, 2002