Michael Bell Email & Phone Number

Michael Bell is founder and president of Michael Bell Consulting LLC, which focuses on integrated workplace management; systems product evaluation and selection; data center facilities topics; telework, and strategic issues associated with the convergence of CRE and IT management. Mr. Bell was formerly a research vice president at Gartner Inc.; the world's leading IT research and advisory company for nine years, where he was part of the IT Infrastructure and Operations unit. His research focused on workplace transformation, change management, telework, data center facilities issues including expansions and relocations, virtual teaming, and facilities and real estate applications.(Integrated Workplace Management Systems-IWMS) Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Bell worked for 30 years in operations and corporate real estate and held executive positions at Xerox, Dun & Bradstreet, and PricewaterhouseCoopers with a focus on the intersection of IT and the workplace. Mr. Bell is also a co-author of The Agile Workplace, a 2001 study of workplace trends produced jointly by Gartner, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 22 industry sponsors. In the mid 1990's Mr Bell was president of the IDRC, the forerunner to Corenet. Mr. Bell earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University, a master of arts degree in the teaching of English from Colgate University and a master's degree in business administration from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. Mr. Bell lives and telecommutes from his home in the Low Country of South Carolina.Specialties: Integrated workplace management systems (IWMS), telework, data center facilities issues, corporate real estate operations, organization , and strategy

Listed skills include Strategy, Strategic Planning, Facilities Management, Organization, and 22 others.