Michael Ireland, Executive Director, Columbia Leadership works with senior leaders to seize market opportunities and overcome their most pressing business challenges by developing their organizations, teams, and leaders. He has helped thousands leaders all over the world to grow their leadership, careers and businesses.He has led the firm since its founding in 2001. His expertise includes: Executive CoachingExecutive Coach TrainingFuture of Work Strategy and ExecutionLeadership Development and Leading GloballyTeam and Organizational DevelopmentBuilding Coached OrganizationsLeader and Candidate Assessment Michael’s expansive experience includes work in financial services, professional services, transportation, government, retail, consumer products, banking, pharmaceuticals, nonprofit, media, technology, finance, insurance and healthcare. His innovative research and thinking form the foundation of Columbia Leadership’s approach to helping others seize market opportunities and overcome challenges while simultaneously building superior leadership capabilities. He is a cutting-edge thinker and presenter in the fields of executive coaching, global leadership, effective facilitation and learning methods, peer learning, and using project-based leadership development to drive business results. He was National Leader and Chief Learning Officer leading Learning and Organizational Development for Deloitte’s Financial Services business when Deloitte was a national top-five learning organization. He also led Leadership Development and the building of Deloitte U.S. into a Coached Organization. Michael teaches at Columbia University on topics like The Future of Work and has been on the Organizational Behavior and Change faculty at New York University for over a decade; developing, researching, and experimenting with cutting-edge content and ways of learning.