Michael
Clingan
Michael is a speaker, trainer, coach and consultant. He works with
companies to develop higher value customer relationships and
with leaders to elevate their approaches to
problem solving and buy-in. His company, The Claymore Group,
serves as a platform for these activities as well as his work as
a Big Five for Life™
coach.
Michael served as Chancellor and co-founder of the C-bridge
Institute on the MIT campus. The Institute’s fifty professionals
taught thousands of executives the technologies, methodologies and
leadership skills needed to succeed in rapidly changing business
environments.
The Institute also brought notoriety to its parent company with
Forrester ranking the 700 person C-bridge Internet Solutions ahead
of far larger competitors such as IBM and Accenture saying “The
firm is a poster child for great training - demonstrated by its
educational seminars and the skills transfer built into
engagements...”
Michael has trained or consulted with organizations such as Abbott,
Agilent, British Telecom, Brush Wellman, Carl Freeman, Chevron,
Coleman Natural Foods, Countrywide Mortgage, Dex Media, ITT, MEMC,
Orcon Aerospace, Seagate, Thomson Financial, TRW, the United Way
and the Washington State Department of Transportation.
He has spoken at numerous domestic and international events on the
topics of leadership, innovation and demand creation. His strategic
marketing and transformative sales work with Nokia Mobile Phones is
used as a case study in numerous executive MBA programs.
Michael is certified by both the TOCICO and the Goldratt Institute
as a master instructor of thinking processes and strategic
marketing. He was also one of the first to be certified by John
Strelecky as a Big Five for Life™ coach.
He is a Vistage speaker, member of ASTD and serves on
CollegeAmerica’s adjunct faculty and its advisory board. He is also
a member of the Cohere collaborative workspace and the
Ascendant Consortium.
Michael previously held global responsibility for sales and
marketing at three international companies and began his career in
manufacturing management and product engineering.
