Michael Schutzler - CEO Coach and Business Sherpa                               

Michael Schutzler is a highly respected business coach with more than a dozen years experience coaching & mentoring executives, managers, CEOs, and board members. Michael developed a passion for and expertise in leadership over the course of 25 years in rapid growth, start-up, and turn-around executive roles. As a successful Internet entrepreneur and investor, he has helped launch more than a dozen companies. Michael has served in leadership roles in public and private companies, non-profit and public service organizations. He has successfully managed small start-up teams as well as complex, international operations with hundreds of employees. Michael holds an MBA in Finance and Economics from the W. E. Simon School at University of Rochester and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Sample Leadership Roles

• President & CEO, Classmates.com
• SVP Global Games Division, RealNetworks
• SVP Consumer Products, Monster Worldwide
• VP Sales & Marketing, RR Donnelley & Sons
• Working Chairman, Digital Forest
• Founding Trustee, Ocean Light Zen Center
• Re-boundary Committee Chair, Issaquah School District

Relevant Coaching & Consulting Experience

• Nearly 3000 hours coaching & mentoring CEOs, executives, managers and board members.
• Coach University® Graduate. Certified in 5Dynamics® Psychometrics
• Over 15 years strategy, marketing, and organizational design facilitation
• Over 10 years experience teaching Zen meditation

International Experience

• Asia – 4 years Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Software Development
• Europe – 8 years M&A, Sales, Marketing, Software Development, Distribution
• Middle-East – 6 years Sales, Marketing, Construction, Government

Industry Experience

• Advertising – 17 years:  1992-present
• Internet – 14 years:  1995-present
• Seed Capital Investing - 11 years:  1998-present
• Electronic Games - 4 years:  2005-present
• Digital Music/Video – 4 years:  2003-2007
• Printing – 4 years:  1991-1995
• Software Application Development – 9 years:  1984-1993
• Defense Contracting – 7 years:  1984-1991
• Telecommunications – 6 years:  1984-1990