Short Version

Mike Jay has been a professional business coach, consultant, and entrepreneur for more than forty years. An award-winning U.S. Marine and collegiate athlete, he initially parlayed his leadership experience into agribusiness innovation and, subsequently, management success in medicine, hospitality, and business services. In 1999 he founded a premiere business and executive coach training system. Through more than 10,000 hours of coaching sessions, Mike has served business leaders in more than twenty-seven countries in such companies as Aditya Birla Group, Avery Dennison, Banswara Fabrics, Bharat Petroleum, Blow Plast, Cadence Design Systems, Carat, Central Bank of Indonesia, Coca-Cola, DLine, Duraline, EDS, Eureka Forbes, Exxon, Ford, General Dynamics, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Godfrey Philips, Godrej, Grey India, GroupM, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Hewlett Packard, Hindalco, Hi Tech Carbon, ICICI Prudential, Ispat Group, JK Tyres, Lupin, Marico Industries, Mediaedge, Novartis, Pantaloon, Pepsi, Rediffusion DY&R, Reserve Bank of India, Telekom Malaysia, Vodaphone, UGS.

Long Version

Mike Jay has been a professional business coach, consultant and successful entrepreneur for more than 35 years. As a business leader for much of his life, he has experienced first-hand what it means to deal with difficult management issues. As an active entrepreneur he has participated in his share of "successful failures." Mike's broad business background adds a depth of real-world knowledge to his ability to connect with clients, audiences and organizations.

As an award winning U.S. Marine, Mike parlayed his military leadership experience into cutting-edge agribusiness and was a nationally featured agribusiness innovator. He received his Bachelor degree from Texas A&M University, where he also won the highest award for senior athletes, the "Aggie Heart Award" leading the 1975 Aggies to a Southwest Conference Football Championship as a quarterback.

Mike has been featured in international publications for his innovative work with employees. His service to people in businesses such as Coca-Cola, Exxon, EDS, Ford, General Dynamics, and other business leaders through 1000s of coaching sessions is the hallmark of success and generosity.  Continuously learning and evolving while learning and sharing knowledge with others has led to broad experience all over the world in coaching, consulting and leadership.

Mike is a member of the International Consortia of Business Coaches, the International Society for Performance Improvement,, the International Coach Federation, the Society for Human Resource Management, American Society for Training & Development and the Association for Psychological Type. Mike holds numerous certifications in emotional intelligence, resilience, spiral dynamics, coaching, and training.

Mike is the author of:

COACH2 THE BOTTOM LINE:  “An Executive Guide to Coaching Performance, Change and Transformation in Organizations;”

Now What?  “A Strategic Leadership System for Discovering and Operationalizing What Really Mattes;”  

COACHING as a Transformational Leadership Competency;

Coach of Many Colors: the CosMos Coaching Model utilizing Spiral Dynamics Integral,

CPR For The Soul: Creating Personal Resilience By Design and a book in progress called

Emergenics: How to Solve More Problems Than You Create featuring the Mindful Leadership™ System.

Mike is also responsible for the designation of “Developmentalist” and the field of Emergenics, Dynamic Engagement and a continuous stream of exciting new leadership paradigms integrating a variety of methodologies towards sustainability and well-being including What Is Integral.

2004 brought about the realization of a 9 year project called Leadership University—a global virtual university focused on the Leadership Development System Mike created over the course of the past 17 years. LeadU as we call it contains more than 36 different programs for leaders in a variety of leadership venues. A complete performance leadership system for elearning and ementoring is available at http://www.leadu.com/perflead .

B\Coach and Leadership University are virtual schools with professional coaching students and graduates throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.  For more information on business coaching visit http://www.b-coach.com or leadership development: www.leadu.com . For more info write admin@b-coach.com or call 877-901-COACH (2622).

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http://www.b-coach.com/workshop  Mike Jay is available for interviews by phone and you may request him to speak at your next event here.

B\Coach is a virtual school with professional coaching students and graduates throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. For more information on business coaching visit http://www.b-coach.com  write press@b-coach.com  or call 877-901-COACH (2622).