Battle Tested Performance 

Mike brings over 20 years of organizational performance, which has enabled him to excel in different areas of coaching, business, and education. At the age of 32, Mike experienced a disease that could have caused blindness but was miraculously cured by Dr. Boxer. As Mike continued to overcome adversity and tragedy. During this process, he finished his doctoral coursework in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from GCU. He holds an M.B.A. from UTPB with a Pedagogy and a Professional Responsibility Certification with the Texas Education Agency. Mike's research-based learning model was created and implemented in 2006 to develop athletes, students, executives, and entrepreneurs to enhance their performance and success. 

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Fortune 500

Mike's ten years of supply chain experience inside UPS operations enabled him to be part of a center that was ranked #3 for PAS performance out of 754 centers in the U.S. Mike has trained hundreds of leaders to produce tangible outcomes by modeling and explaining the process of production, synchronization, capitalization, utilization, and execution when it comes to outcomes and results. Mike's ability to scale an operation revolves around building leadership capacity and density, along with emotional capacity, so employees can increase production.  

 

Entrepreneurship 

In 2015, Mike was recruited as a Chief Executive Officer for a chamber of commerce. In those two years, he grew the organization's revenue to over 300%. At the same time, Mike served as an International Business Development Trade Consultant for an economic development corporation for two years to help influence several Mexican cities to sign a tri-city sister agreement in the U.S. The agreement was projected to be valued at over $1 billion by a multinational global package company. Mike consulted for a venture capitalist firm, bringing insight and synergy to create win-win deals for his clients, ranging over $100 million. In 2018, Mike acquired a multi-million manufacturing contract for GOLSCH Energy due to bilateral trade agreements. Mike had the honor to advise two CEOs to publish their first book publications and selected to the renowned entrepreneur Tejas Leadership class of 2024. 

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Education 

Mike's Fortune 500 and entrepreneurship background led him to create and develop an educational curriculum: The "Phoenix Challenge," which has inspired thousands of students to change their negative behaviors into positive outcomes in an at-risk facility. Mike presented at the Texas Association of Alternative Educators Leadership Conference. The Phoenix Challenge received a district award from ECISD in 2012. In 2021, Mike was awarded as an Expert Art of Thinking educator and appointed as an administrator by Third Future Schools. Mike served as a panel speaker to 300 HISD superintendents, executive directors, and administrators for being on a team that was part of a middle school that went from an F to a B in one year in TEA accountability ratings. This was a historical milestone in Texas education history. As an administrator, Mike has led teams for three consecutive years that have produced over 2.0 years of academic growth on NWEA map testing. Mike's last team of 8th grade educators set a record in three and half months of producing 1.58 years of academic growth, breaking the national average. In 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and TEA Commissioner Mike Morath then took over HISD, the first Texas District in history, due to the model school where Mike was administered due to high-performance data. Mike is a producer of NWEA and STAAR data. 

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Champion

Mike understands the difference between playing on a championship team and a winning team. In 2002, Mike played under Midland college championship coaches Steve Ramharter and Brian Reinke where the team went 45-12. Mike brings insight and foresight from research-based learning models to guarantee a social-emotional approach in developing athletes, executives, entrepreneurs, educators, and students to success.