Michael Vandergriff Email & Phone Number

Since 1979, I have provided live-case conflict, performance, and team training to audiences ranging from fighter pilots to cowboys (US Army Range Riders) to Einstein Fellows (National Science Foundation) to psychiatric staff working with Charles Manson.Additionally, I have had the opportunity to provide training to young employees in intern programs, including EPA, GSA, USPS, NASA and Army Management Fellows. My special customer relationships include:• Lead trainer for the Presidential Management Fellows Program for eleven years, coordinating all graduation training from 1999 to 2005.• Conflict and Team training for the National Leadership Team of the nation's oldest law enforcement organization, the US Park Police.• All core supervisory training (week-long Supervisory Skills 1 & 2) for NASA Kennedy Space Center from 2006 through the end of the shuttle program.• 27 years, adjunct faculty at the US OPM Management Development Centers and Federal Executive Institute.• Conflict Training for all managers and supervisors of AFSR, the financial management component of the Department of Health and Human Services with an annual budget exceeding $975 billion.I co-directed The Worldwide Conference on Terrorism in 2002 (Quantico) and 2003 (Tampa), where we hosted speakers from NYPD, NYFD, NY Port Authority, Arlington Fire Department (Pentagon impact), Pan Am 103 Lockerbie Investigators from Scotland Yard, and International Judges and Investigators from Spain, France, Italy, and Germany.Specialties: Conflict management expert; highly rated performance and team training professional. Specialize in blending training topics with participant worksheets, increasing interest, involvement, and retention. Personal archives include thousands of worksheets from four decades of classes. Excel at taking complex subjects in leadership and breaking them down analytically into simple to understand, logical concepts that are easy to implement back in the real world.

Listed skills include Training, Team Building, Workshop Facilitation, Management, and 26 others.