I've spent twenty years studying those languages: status, influence, innovation, leadership, charisma. I believe real change happens when people feel something powerful through challenge, immersion, and excitement.
My toolkit comes from eight years of award-winning facilitation and behavioural design at Kearney. The understanding of people comes from everywhere else I've lived: underground charisma communities, park ranger stations, fashion runways.
"When Mikhail is in front of a room of leaders, the trust is there immediately. Through his collaborative programme design, he felt like part of our organisation throughout. He put our senior team inside immersive experiences from breakfast to dinner each day, and the room genuinely shifted - participants were emailing new direction back to their teams before the programme even finished."
Isobel Peck - EVP Brand & Audience at Informa
"Mikhail brings an enormous amount of energy, colour and creativity to change initiatives. His personality and novel methods helps teams see issues and engage on them in new ways that unlock traditional thinking and unify people on a path forward. I have seen Mikhail’s positive impact in agile deployment in banking and alliancing in the energy sector."
Ira Gaberman - Sr Partner, European Head of Change at Kearney
"Mikhail's infectious energy and passion kept an entire executive leadership team engaged for three virtual days. More importantly, he provoked each of them into understanding the concepts in their own way, for their own business units. I finally felt the team truly understood what we were trying to do."
Rebecca Oldfield - Chief Technology Officer at Infineum