Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Principal of Box of Crayons (http://www.BoxOfCrayons.biz), a company that works with organizations and teams around the world to help them do less Good Work and more Great Work.
 
Box of Crayons’ clients range from AstraZeneca to Xerox and are based in North America, Europe and Australia.  They have particular expertise with blue chip organizations in the professional service, pharmaceutical and consumer goods market sectors.  Box of Crayons’ premier product is the Coaching for Great Work program (http://www.CoachingForGreatWork.com) which gives managers and leaders practical coaching skills that stick.
 
Michael was the 2006 Canadian Coach of the Year.  He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and holds a Masters of Philosophy from Oxford, and law and arts degrees with highest honors from the Australian National University.
 
Michael’s latest book is Find Your Great Work: napkin-size solutions to stop the busywork and start the work that matters (http://www.FindYourGreatWork.com).  It’s written to support and enable managers and leaders do more Great Work, and has been endorsed by such influential thinkers as David Allen, Dave Ullrich and Marshall Goldsmith.
 
Michael also created The Great Work Movie (http://www.GreatWorkMovie.com),  The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun (http://www.EightPrinciples.com) and The 5 ¾ Questions You’ve Been Avoiding, (http://www.fivebigquestions.com), short internet movies that have been seen by well over a million people in at least 175 countries around the world.
 
Michael is a popular speaker at business and coaching conferences around the world.  He has been a speaker at the last three International Coaching Federation conferences, the OD Network, the International Association of Facilitators, CSTD and SHRM.
 
Prior to founding Box of Crayons, Michael held senior positions in the corporate, consultancy and agency worlds in the UK, the United States and Canada.  He has been involved in numerous large scale change efforts, including writing the global vision for GlaxoSmithKline.
 
Michael supports a number of non profit organizations, including
> Founding Board member of the Coach Initiative, an organization committed to bringing the power of coaching to non-profit organizations
> The Constituent Advisory Committee for About Face International, a non-profit organization working with people with facial differences.  
> A facilitator for The World Council, an organization that helps enrol youth in a vision for global harmony.