About Michael

Most struggling teams don’t actually have a teamwork problem. They have people problems that eventually become team problems.

After spending more than 20 years leading teams, developing leaders, and working inside large organizations, Michael Rogers became convinced that the health of a team almost always comes back to the people on it. The way teammates show up.

The way leaders care. The standards people are willing to live by when nobody is watching.

That belief became the foundation for Michael’s work, his speaking, and his books.

Michael is the author of the bestselling book You Are the Team, with more than 200,000 copies sold, and Do You Care to Lead?, a practical and honest look at what leadership feels like when people actually want to follow you.

His leadership experience wasn’t built in theory alone.

For more than two decades, he led learning, performance, leadership development, and culture initiatives inside large, complex organizations, including serving as:

• Director of Learning, Performance, and Quality for a Fortune 50 company

• Senior Vice President of Learning and Performance for one of the largest privately held insurance brokers in the United States
  

Today, Michael works with organizations, leaders, and teams across the country through speaking, workshops, consulting, and training focused on leadership, culture, commitment, and teamwork that actually works in real life.

He has been recognized as an Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and his writing and ideas have reached hundreds of thousands of leaders through books, workshops, blogs, social media, and team development programs.

But if you ask Michael what matters most, he probably won’t start with the titles.

He’ll tell you about his wife, Terri, their 30+ years together, their six sons, two daughters, and fourteen grandchildren.

He lives in Southern Utah and still believes the best leadership lessons usually happen far away from a conference stage.

Because leadership is never just about strategy, titles, or management techniques. It’s about the kind of people we become, the cultures we create, and the standards we choose to live by when working with others.

Michael believes the healthiest teams are not built when leaders simply push harder. They are built when people throughout the team start taking ownership of the culture around them.