Michael Halperin serves as Chief Learning Officer of Collaborative Action and is the principal of Halperin Consulting, an organizational consulting and training firm.  With 30 years of consulting experience, Mike has fostered effective organizational change in a wide range of settings and applications.  These include executive coaching, policy development and analysis, large-scale organizational change interventions, customer service, program design and evaluation, teambuilding, and installing organizational learning capabilities.

He has worked with executives, all levels of management, and individual contributors in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.  Clients have included Harvard University, Motorola, Amoco Oil, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Bose, AT&T, Gartner Research, Polaroid, Hewlett-Packard, Fleet Bank (Bank of Boston), Analog Devices, SCT, various agencies of federal, state, and local government, and the Gannett Foundation.   

Mike is experienced in many aspects of leadership development, including needs assessment, design and development in a wide range of critical business topics, delivery and facilitation, staffing, coaching and mentoring, marketing, and evaluation.  He implemented a measurement system to determine the business value in financial terms of the tangible and intangible results of organizational learning programs.  In addition, he helped design and install a quality assurance system that allows for effective implementation and continuous improvement of consulting and business practices, including organizational training.

Mike has held senior positions at the Fallon Clinic and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a professor at The George Washington University, Suffolk University, and Bentley College, where he headed the Public Administration Program. He was also a member, then chair of his local school board and a member of the Middle School Council.

He did his master’s and doctoral work at The George Washington University in public policy analysis, organization development, and economics.  Mike has published articles and delivered presentations on policy analysis, program evaluation, maximizing the value of training and organizational development, decision-making, marketing in the public sector, and teambuilding.  He wrote a regular column on educational issues for the Malden Observer and led an effort for an independent, nonpartisan evaluation of the public schools in Malden, Massachusetts.

Mike enjoys photography and music, and has played percussion in the Cambridge Symphony.