Michael A. Podolinsky

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Michael A. Podolinsky

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Michael A. Podolinsky develops people and helps them focus for success. Working with audiences from 4 to 4,500 people across 6 continents in 23 countries, he’s impacted over 11 million people worldwide. Unlike other ‘speakers’, his SUCCESS SYSTEM ensures and even guarantees results from your next meeting or event.

EXPERTISE: As Asia’s leading expert in developing people and people skills, he knows and is a leading authority on every organizations’ single largest asset... their people! He also wrote the book on the subject of "Mining For Gold™...Facilitation Skills to Unearth a Wealth of Ideas From Your Team." Along with Smart Leadership, Go For Your Goals and Winning At Work, his authored works have influenced tens of thousands of managers across Asia and the world.

EXPERIENCE IN BUSINESS: Prior to moving to Asia in August of 2003, he sat on President George W. Bush’s Small Business Advisory Council and was the Minnesota State Chair.

Business owner himself for 22 years (17 years in the Asia Pacific region), formerly responsible for the USA’s largest martial arts school, award winning sales person and president of training and speaking societies, he possesses the real-world, practical skills and knowledge to help you transform your people.

EXPERIENCE ON THE PLATFORM: With over 400 clients using his expertise and having spoken to over 1,700 audiences, he is currently a special advisor to the board of directors of the Asian Speakers Association. He was also named, "Motivational Speaker of the Year" by his speaking peers and is one of only 5 American speakers named, "Honourary Member of the National Speakers Association of Australia."

In 1995 Walter's International Speakers Bureau awarded him their "Consummate Speaker of the Year!" award. He is the only speaker ever to be honored to serve the National Speakers Association Minnesota Chapter TWICE as president, (both times the association doubled or tripled their budgets.) He is also the 2002 winner of the Mark LeBlanc speaking industry leadership award.

Author: A prolific author, writer, and columnist with over 70,000 copies sold, he’s authored:
Mining For Gold™...Facilitation Skills to Unearth a Wealth of Ideas From Your Team – Pearson / Prentice Hall
Smart Leadership – Oasis
Go For Your Goals - Oasis
Winning At Work – Oasis
From Stress To Success – Oasis
E-Mail and Voicemail Tools – Oasis

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While most of our programmes are highly customised, after 22 years, we have developed some programmes that have been requested so many times, we have put them into the following outlines. They can still be changed and adapted to suit your exact needs.

• How to Coach, Coax and confirm a high productivity team
• Sell more- Sell smarter
• Tick-Talk...How to DOUBLE your productivity and TRIPLE your effectiveness with proactive time and stress management
• Mining for Gold...Facilitation skills to unearth a wealth of ideas from your team - (also called) Facilimagic...Facilitation Skills for Trainers, Managers and Team Leaders
• We can also customise an in-house program to suit your needs

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