Michael Kaufman - Alliance Director
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Biography
Michael Kaufman is internationally recognized as a facilitator, consultant, and experiential educator, focusing on strategy formation, complex problem solving, innovative product and service design, and organizational transformation. His approach to facilitation combines over twenty years of experience including the best of Accelerated Learning, the Design Process, brain-based learning and a rich background in the practice of innovation and collective creativity.
Michael's clients have included a broad range of organizations: international firms, Fortune 500 companies, emerging growth firms, start-ups, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations, schools and school districts.
Kaufman’s list of clients include: CapGemini, Ernst & Young, Bell Canada, Cable & Wireless, Hyperion Solutions, The American Heart Association, Alegent Health, The American Board of Pediatrics, Smith & Nephew, the Federation of State Medical Boards, NASA, Stanford University Medical Center, Strategos, Rubio’s Restaurants, The Natural Step, GENI (Global Energy Network International), The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the State of Hawaii Department of Education, Nebraska State Department of Education, Marquette University, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee Public Schools, as well as San Diego and Santa Cruz City Schools.
In partnership with a network of consulting firms, Michael has worked with 100s of companies including Ford Motor Company, TRW, American Express, Netscape, Cisco, AEDC (Arnold Engineering and Development Corporation), Gulf Canada, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, and Lehman Brothers.
Other aspects of Mr. Kaufman’s background include producing and promoting experiential management trainings, as well as designing, producing and delivering business educational workshops that are highly interactive and dynamic. Many of these processes incorporate the principles of Buckminster Fuller’s design revolution, Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s Theory of Profound Knowledge, and facilitation processes invented by InnovationLabs LLC.
Michael Kaufman has been an entrepreneur since age 17 and has had the good fortune to know and learn from some remarkable mentors including Marshall Thurber, R. Buckminster Fuller, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, and Matt and Gail Taylor.
Mr. Kaufman offers proven expertise in the following areas:
• Large scale interventions
• Multi-organizational collaboration
• Strategy formation
• New Product/Service Ideation and Development
• Design and Facilitation Collaborative Events
• Organization Design
• Quality and Continuous Improvement Processes
• Management Training and Development
• Experiential Learning
• Scenario Planning facilitation
• Horizons and Roadmap facilitation