BBA—University of Georgia
(Major—Insurance/Real Estate)

Worked his way up from salesman, to manager, to district manager, to regional manager, to national sales manager, to vice president of sales of an international sales corporation.........within 4 years and before he was 26 years old.

Has spoken to over 3,000 audiences in the United States, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, the Bahamas, the Philippines, and Mexico.

Co-author of two books.

In 1995, Mike published his first solely authored book.

He has made several THOUSAND "cold-call" field sales presentations and has "field trained" over 100 salespeople.

Mike has been featured in many corporate "in house" video tape training programs.

Mike was the 1980-81 President of the 3,100 member, National Speakers Association.

In 1980, he received the CSP designation (Certified Speaking Professional) from the National Speaker's Association. Fewer than 8% of the membership has received this distinction.  

In 1990, Mike became the first and only speaker to receive both of the National Speakers Association's highest honors in the same year:

 1) The CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame Award (Council of Peers Award for Excellence), presented to him by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (only 185 other speakers have received this prestigious award....including Zig Ziglar, General Colin Powell, Tom Hopkins, Dr. Ken Blanchard, Art Linkletter, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Harvey Mackay, Marilyn Van Derbur and Og Mandino)

2) The CAVETT AWARD, the most cherished honor in the speaking industry.  It is given to only one speaker each year.

In 2004, Mike was a recipient of the "Legend of the Speaking Profession" award.  Fewer than 50 speakers in the world have received this recognition.

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PERSONAL ITEMS ABOUT MIKE:

Grew up in Texas and Virginia, before going to college in Athens, Georgia.

Was president of his high school fraternity AND college fraternity.

Lived in Denver, Colorado......Los Angeles, California..... San Francisco, California..... Cleveland, Ohio.....Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before settling in Columbus, Ohio.....where he has lived for over 38 years.

Is happily married to his beautiful wife, Colleen. They were married on his birthday in 1980.  He NEVER forgets his anniversary.  They have a daughter who is a Physician's Assistant and who is married to a Doctor.......they have two young sons.....the grandsons that Mike and Colleen visit monthly from Ohio to North Carolina.  Mike has a son who is a lawyer in the Washington, DC area.

Mike loves country music (but his favorite all time singer was Jackie Wilson), travel, movies, good food (Mike and Colleen love to eat and eat to live), horseback riding, kids, and animals.

He collected sports cards for many years.  At one time he had over 2,000,000 items.