
Chairman, Shaping Tomorrow
Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Chairman, Shaping Tomorrow
Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Mike is a Founder Member of www.ShapingTomorrow.com a unique web based futures, strategy and change management portal for corporate innovation and risk management.
He is known on conference platforms speaking on business subjects including futures, sustainability, customer loyalty and retention, business process re-engineering, change management, building strategic visions and values and people motivation and communications, ethics, alliances and corporate governance.
Mike was Chief Executive of Birmingham Midshires Building Society between 1990 and 1998, then the UK's 4th largest. As Chief Executive of Birmingham Midshires he achieved a dramatic change for the better in the Society's fortunes moving from near oblivion to a highly profitable, customer led and multiple-award winning business in just eight years.
He was previously a Senior Vice President with Bank of America who he joined in 1986. He held several positions at the Bank which included Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, based in London, Head of Consumer Loans Services and Chief Financial Officer for consumer markets, based in North America (San Francisco).
He studied at Salford University, Manchester, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and a U.S. accredited MBA in Operations Research. He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration by the University of Wolverhampton in 1997. He is a full member of the Strategic Planning Society, the Association of Professional Futurists and a Professional Member of the World Future Society.
Adviser on horizon scanning, strategic planning and change management programmes.
Vision, values and strategy creation for organisations.
Business wide process re-engineering, sustainability projects and service excellence programmes a specialty.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Market Research industry)
March 2003 — Present (5 years 7 months)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 2001 — Present (7 years 3 months)
Shaping Tomorrow provide busy people and organisations with extra arms to manage risk and profit from tomorrow's opportunities, today.
Our armoury includes:-
o the most comprehensive, structured and eclectic shopping list of today's forces for change
o tomorrow's trends, forecasts and potential wild cards
o case studies, foresight projects, methods, tools and future views
o taking action through the best strategy building and change management resources on the web
o a regular newsletter highlighting futures topics and upcoming issues
o a unique global media publishing centre for authors, editors and futuring organisations
o client and syndicated research in association with our global network of futurists
o surveys, provision of speakers for events and professional advisors for your projects.
(Public Company; Think Tanks industry)
1990 — Present (18 years)
(Public Company; Think Tanks industry)
1990 — Present (18 years)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Construction industry)
March 1996 — November 2004 (8 years 9 months)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1990 — 1998 (8 years)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1986 — 1990 (4 years)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1973 — 1986 (13 years)
(Think Tanks industry)
1973 — 1986 (13 years)
Certificate in Operational Research, OR (U.S. MBA certified 1986), September 1971 — July 1974
BSc, Electronics, September 1967 — July 1970
Trends, Foresight, Futures, Strategy, Change,
Shaping Tomorrow Foresight Network
Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration, Wolverhampton University 1997