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Michael L. Grigg
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Bi-lingual English-Mandarin Executive, Leadership, Communication, Change Management Coach with 20+ years professional experience coaching 50+ Fortune 500's, 30,000+ people across all major industries from 90+ countries

Bi-lingual English-Mandarin Executive, Leadership, Communication, Change Management Coach with 20+ years professional experience coaching 50+ Fortune 500's, 30,000+ people across all major industries from 90+ countries

Full Bio

Mike has 20+ years of passion and expertise coaching people to fast-track their impact in and beyond their roles, to teams and organizations and their products, processes, tech, people and services in Fortune 500’s from Asia, Europe and North America. He has designed and led coaching programs for 100+ organizations including ABB, Accenture, Basf, Bosch, Coca-Cola, Dell, Ernst and Young, Ford Motor Company, Global Innovation Exchange, Lily, Marriott, Mondelez, Takeda, Roche, Unilever, VW, WeWork and a growing number of CES startups. He is an expert in leadership, communication, culture, change and business development; frequently getting tapped as an advisor, program designer and lead coach into kicking off and supporting transformations; the most prominent was Bosch in which has been highlighted in Harvard Business Review June 2018.

Mike’s approach is to build trust with clients quickly, so together they facilitate wins that include drawing visibility to strengths and ambitions, providing the catalyst to break out of unconscious barriers and enable results of any scope and scale.


Notable Client Achievements

  • Empowered 4 divisions of a German Fortune 50 to strengthen communication, networking, and convincing techniques to win $5B investments over 3 years

  • Coached a facilitation team to leverage their expertise into designing and developing agile and innovation programs for their global divisions; from 0 to 6 projects per month

  • Coached a Software VP and core team within Engineering Division of 1,500+ people to win $150M in projects within 6 months- Coached a Fortune 50 New Product Development Group to win internal funding for 167 projects within 12 months

  • Coached a software tech supervisor to achieve an impossible goal; challenge self to reinvigorate passion for the job after missing a promotion, upgrade their 25-person team, and convince 3 levels of senior management to adapt his quality management process to increase reliability of launching satellites by 72%

  • Coached a divisional President and Senior Vice President from two massive regions to pull off a a transformation communications strategy that inspired 80 facilities around the globe to copy and paste their achievements

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WORK HIGHLIGHTS
Central Washington University
Executive Vice President
CREDENTIALS
  • International Association of Coaching Practitioner (IAC.org)
  • Breakthrough Thinking & Change Facilitator
  • International Workshop Facilitator
  • Mandarin Fluency (HSK)
  • BS Business Admin.
  • BA Chinese Language
INDUSTRIES
Computer Software
Management Consulting
Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
Retail
Government
EXPERIENCE WITH
Account Management
Business Development
Management
Product Management
Sales
Consulting
EXPERTISE
Career Direction
Improve At Networking
Mid Career
New People Manager
Experienced People Manager
Executive
Value Identification
Discover Skills And Strengths
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