Michael Halperin is President and Chief Learning Officer of Collaborative Action Technologies, an organizational consulting and training firm. With 25 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 interventions, 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 non-profit sectors. Clients have included Motorola, Amoco Oil, AT&T, Polaroid, Compaq Corporation, 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 organizational training, 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 in 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 masters 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 has written a regular column on educational issues for the Malden Observer and has led an effort for an independent, non-partisan evaluation of the public schools in Malden, Massachusetts.

Mike is married 22 years and has three daughters (17, 13, and 11). He enjoys photography, music and has played percussion in the Cambridge Symphony. In addition, he completed a course on stand-up comedy and (bravely) performed the final exam at a local comedy club.