Let Michael Stanleigh Customize a Keynote for Your Event

Keynotes

• "Michael is an inspirational speaker and has a very practical understanding of his topics."
  marcusevans, Australia
• "Michael’s presentation enriched our knowledge and became our most important experience and I think will stay in our memories forever."
  Lafe Group of Companies, China
• "The Conference Organizing Committee was thrilled with attendance for your address and the feedback we have received from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive. "Attention getter!" "Awesome!!" and "Great speaker" are all comments that were shared repeatedly in the feedback we received."
  American Society for Quality
• "Michael has an ability to connect and engage a large audience…it is a credit to the knowledge he has of this subject matter and the superior skills he possesses as a presenter."
  American Society for Quality
• "Michael is a very effective speaker who always appears to feed off the energy in his audience and therefore keeps the audience engaged through his content, examples, passion and style."
  Memorial University
• "Michael was the opening keynote presenter at our conference. He was engaging with the audience. I particularly was impressed with his ability to link our conference theme as an integral part of his presentation. This is something that few other keynotes have done for us. We received excellent reviews from our audience. I can also say that then entire symposium planning committee was also very happy with his presentation and the professional distinction that it gave to our event. Michael’s enthusiastic delivery and use of humor reinforced the excellent content of the presentation."
  Project Management Institute
• "Feedback we have received from conference attendees has been very positive. Michael’s presentations are delivered with clarity, and provide participants with relevant and timely information and "tools" they can immediately apply in the workplace. We recommend Michael as a high-quality speaker and will continue to work with him due to his professionalism and effectiveness."
  Progressive Business Conferences

Imagine having every person in every department in your organization at work in the most effective way. Would you be more successful? Whether you are the leader of a large organization or a person looking to do your best, Michael Stanleigh, business management consultant, Certified Speaking Professional and CEO of Business Improvement Architects can help you achieve operational success.

Your audience will enjoy Michael’s spark, energy, and creativity and platform skills. As an acclaimed keynote speaker he will inspire and motivate your team to positive results. His business presentations are always leading-edge and both interesting and highly informative.

Michael develops custom business presentations to suit your audience around his areas of expertise. These include:

• Strategy and Leadership Development
• How to Manage Organizational Change
• Innovation
• Project Management Methodologies and Building Project Management in Organizations
• Quality Improvement

• Creating Operational Success through Organizational Effectiveness
• Innovation in a Time of Transition
• Organizational Change that Sticks
• Project Auditing for Risk Assurance
• There’s more than “I” in Innovation
• What Quality Professionals Need to Know to Sleep Better at Night

• “Michael is a very enthusiastic facilitator who created an exciting environment for an otherwise tedious topic. This was a wonderful course - one of the best I've attended—well-structured, well-organized, excellent info!"
  Mackenzie Financial
• “Business Improvement Architects is an organization that continually meets our high quality standards. They consistently rate highly in their delivery, class management, use of applicable and practical examples of concepts to the theory and ideas they are presenting and their knowledge of and experience with the material they are teaching.”
  -Program Designer, ASQ Learning Offerings, American Society for Quality
• “Over the years we have found great value in working with Business Improvement Architects because their programs have been highly effective. There have been a number of positive endeavours demonstrated by the participants including applying the project management process to an existing project in order to bring it back on track. Others have successfully applied the knowledge directly to a number of new projects.”
  -Director of Manufacturing, Ingersoll-Rand Company
• “It’s not often you encounter project facilitators that not only possess excellent probing and team building skills, but also have an excellent grasp of the essence of the subject matter. Business Improvement Architects has acted as a consultant for Trimark on numerous occasions and has delivered above and beyond our expectations. I wholeheartedly endorse BIA’s services and am happy to report that the team is continuing to perform well.”
  -Director, Trimark Investments

• Leadership Development
• Change Management
• Project Management
• Quality Management
• Business Analyst Training

• “Business Improvement Architects has been instrumental in helping us develop our leadership team. Through the implementation of their recommended processes and continuous guidance throughout, they have brought our team back on track. We recommend them for their strategic perspective, on-going support and practical measurement tools.”
  Director, Information Technology Services, ScotiaBank
• “We are impressed at how Business Improvement Architects has very quickly and effectively managed to get us working co-operatively as a team. We highly recommend them to others.”
  -Chief Executive Officer, The Rooms
• “Business Improvement Architects successfully helped us apply a sound process that was effective in helping us execute our strategic plan. This is the first time that so many individuals (150) were brought together in one room for 2 days, all focused on the same goal…to successfully realize our strategic plan. It was an incredible experience.”
  -Executive VP Operations, Brookfield
• “Business Improvement Architect’s helped us to significantly reduce the impact of integrating employees between two diverse cultures into one organization. Previously we suffered a loss of staff and a slow amalgamation of processes. Their approach brought significant change in a relatively short span of time.”
  -Director of Human Resources, Couche-Tard

1. Strategy and Leadership Performance Success System™
• Understand the organization's vision
• Develop the strategic plan
• Develop Values and Principles
• Align departmental goals to organizational strategies
• Develop and Implement Strategic Change Management
• Implement Total Performance Management™
• Measure performance against competencies
• Develop management's leadership skills
• Coach leaders to manage performance
2. Innovate to Excel Success System™
• Establish goals for innovation
• Create a culture which supports innovation
• Prepare for innovation with strategic change management
• Develop guiding values and principles for innovation
• Implement an Innovation Process
• Help your team understand innovation
• Develop Management’s Leadership Performance for Innovation
3. Project Management Success System™
• Create and Sustain a Project Management Office
• Project Coaching
• Ensure the effectiveness of Project Teams
• Create effective project processes, tools and templates
• Improve project performance
• Create a Productive Project Management Culture
• Implement Project Management Quality Systems
• Manage Projects in Crisis
• Conduct Project Health Checks and Audits
4. Quality Management Success System™
• Develop a strategic quality plan
• Benchmark current organizational performance
• Implement effective quality processes and tools
• Monitor the effectiveness of quality teams
• Examine key business processes