Professional Profile

Michael has 24 years' experience in consulting and responding to the learning needs of adults in the financial services, biotech, power, and service industries. Michael's interest is in adult education and his belief is that the workplace has become the 'third place' of learning and development for the 21st century. Michael holds an MA in Public Administration from the JFK School of Government, Harvard College, and is the thought leader of IA's Cross Boundary Collaboration practice. Among his publications are "Principle and Profit-Corporate Responsibility in Ireland."

Current and Past Clients Include

Dell, Catholic Health Care Partners, British Petroleum (BP)

Pro Bono Clients

Institute for Public Health, Irish Peace Process, Irish Immigration Center

On Working at IA

My passion is to assist individuals, groups, departments and whole systems to reach across boundaries of gender, geography, education, training, or heritage and collaborate to co-create a better world. Working at IA allows me to name this as both my work and my calling.

More About Me

I am a native of Dublin Ireland and am married to the beautiful Mary Browne from Clay Center, Kansas. We have two sons, John, six, and Michael Francis, three.

I love nothing better than to relax to the music of Robert Zimmerman — aka Bob Dylan — played loudly!! To accompany me on a long journey by air, I will dip into Staying Alive-Real Poems for Unreal Times, edited by Neil Astley (Miramax Books).

Recommended Books

Leadership on the Line-Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading, Heifetz and Linsky (HBS Press), The Art of Possibility — Transforming Professional and Personal Life, Zander and Zander (Penguin Books)

What I Care About

Coming from the first world, I am very conscious of how much we consume. I am conscious of the ambiguity of how big a carbon footprint I am leaving as I use the airplane to travel to demonstrate the power and transfer the capability of collaboration (IA's mission). I feel compelled and called to work for a planet that will be cleaner and more whole for my children and their children.