Michael Cooper

High Performance Orgs

Coaching executives and leadership teams to drive growth and innovation. Leading team workshops and training courses to develop the proper mindset, specialized skillset and robust toolset required for sustainable growth. 

Coaching executives and growth-stage leaders in our 1:1 High Performance Executive Coaching program to develop the mindset, skillset and toolset to drive growth and innovation. 

Coaching startup teams in our Smoother Scaling Team Coaching to have the hard conversations that most teams avoid to build high-performing teams. 

Developing and leading Quarterly Growth Alignment Sessions to ensure client teams stay laser-focused and rowing in the same direction to drive growth.

Developing and leading Culture Design workshops to help teams work in a cohesive and productive manner, driven by their mission, shaped by their values, with the required rituals, norms, meetings and decisions to exceed their goals.

Hosting and leading The High Performance Leadership Accelerator which equips leaders with the 12 skills required to drive growth in constantly changing environments: psychological safety, emotional acumen, burnout monitoring and prevention, trust building and repair, alignment, problem definition, communicating with different brain types, feedforward, performance conversations, development plans, humility and shared leadership.

Coaching executives and leaders on their Speech, Presentation and Pitch Skills to ensure they craft the proper messages and engage, educate and inspire their most important audiences, including their employees, investors, industry peers and the media. 

Developing and delivering thought leadership in keynote speeches around the globe. 

Developing and sharing thought leadership on podcasts, blogs and publications.

Founder & Head Executive Coach

Alchemist Accelerator

Startup Mentor

Innovators + Influencers

I help Innovators and Influencers run their businesses, manage their teams, harness their untapped potential and identify their self-limiting beliefs to break bad leadership habits. I help smart, successful people surpass their plateaus and transform their organizations through regenerative business strategies that keep their teams focused, energized, productive and profitable.

Executive Business Coach, Facilitator & Trainer

LovingLeaders, LLC and BrillianceQuest

Right-brain entrepreneurs and executives hire me to help them stand out in the left-brain world of business by actualizing their hidden potential, monetizing their gifts, finishing what they start, hiring competent staff (vs. hiring for potential) and giving themselves permission to get the help and support they need. 

I also help people discover their unique brilliance in a 12-week intensive coaching program called BrillianceQuest, which includes Life Purpose, Neuro-Compatibility, LifeTrajectory Action Plan and Internal Alignment.

Executive Coach

LEVER/edge

Train and equip aspiring leaders / high potential employees (your leadership pipeline) with the skills, tools and resources to make a difference in organizations, using the 10 Proficiencies of Modern Leadership.

Co-Founder, Trainer, Leadership Mentor

Messy Monkey Arts

Combined humor, play and interpersonal dynamics during team building exercises to discover the underlying traits, characteristics and leadership skills people employ when working together. Facilitated creativity and team building to impact business results.

Group Facilitator

Paragon Strategies

Managing partner of training and meeting facilitation company. Responsible for developing and delivering sales and management training services within companies.

Principal

CoachVille

Taught coach training curriculum in several different classes.

Coaching Instructor

International Association of Coaches

Founded the organization with Thomas Leonard. Set up the Board of Governors and infrastructure, coordinated the development of the certification process and continue to serve on the board as advisor and Past President.

Founding President

BetterMe.org

Helped business owners discover and overcome their personal blocks and issues that interfered with business results. Aligned business expectations with personal expectations. Developed business strategy to increase revenue, attract clients, improve products and services and manage people more effectively.

Executive Business Coach

Equipping growth-stage leaders to achieve their revenue goals.

After a Series A or B fundraising round, you must #scale fast.

But that’s exactly when most startup founders and executives struggle. 

Here’s the problem: most founders and executives don’t have the skills to scale their organizations. 

These skills are not just “nice-to-haves" -- they are non-negotiable.

You make excuses or claim you don’t have time for it and you end up pushing everyone harder, stressing every person on the team and creating a toxic environment. 

Morale tanks and you start to lose good people. 

You’re in trouble with only a few months of runway left and you start to freak out, losing confidence that you’ll be able to get off the ground. 

Your investors get nervous and question if you can pull it off. 

Your confidence spirals, which bleeds into your leadership style. 

It happens more often than you think. You shouldn’t let it happen to you. Trust me, I’ve been there. And I learned how to get out.

With these factors in mind, it’s no wonder that 55% of Series A companies don’t raise a Series B round and 90% of startups fail. 

Here’s a hard truth: you had a great idea that secured your funding, but you don’t have the leadership skills to deliver quickly and consistently. Don’t worry - most founders don’t have those skills because technological innovation is an entirely different skillset from human-centric leadership.

It doesn’t have to be so difficult – with the right coaching and training, you can: 

1. Stay focused on what matters most: commercial traction by creating value for your customers. 
2. Clarify your values and hire, fire, incentivize, recognize and reward based on those. 
3. Create value for your customers and stay laser-focused on market changes to consistently generate more revenue. 
4. Improve teaming fundamentals daily, improving morale and productivity. 
5. Streamline your meetings and gain back the time you need to execute on your goals. 
6. Develop consistent standards and a common language  across your team. 
7. Use science-backed tools to identify important metrics and solve problems fast. 
8. Train your leaders and managers to build psychological safety, trust and alignment. 
9. Give frequent feedforward through performance conversations and co-create inspiring development plans. 
10. Send the right signals to potential investors to secure your next round of funding. 

Shoot me a message if you need to learn how to scale quickly and finally escape the pressure cooker. Human-focused growth coaching can deliver tangible results for your customers and investors without burning out your team.

Clear Change Group

Clear Change Group is a consulting, training and coaching collective that works internationally to help professionals and organizations maximize their clarity of purpose, efficiency and impact. We guide you in achieving the inner and outer alignment you need to deliver your contribution sustainably on a larger scale.

Specialties:
- Purpose-based career coaching
- Individual and organizational purpose 
- Coach mentoring

Founder - Purpose-Based Career Coaching, Life Purpose Discovery, Organizational Purpose

True Purpose® Institute

- Member of the TPI Leader Team, overseeing in-house technology and new web development, and contributing to community outreach
- True Purpose® Coach Trainer for individual purpose discovery
- True Purpose® Organizational Consultant Trainer for collective purpose discovery
- Coach mentor and examiner for the True Purpose® Organizational Consultant certification program
- Former coach mentor and examiner for the True Purpose® Coach certification program
- Founding member of the original Strategic Leadership Team

Teacher and Leader Team Member

Amoveo Mundi

Member of collaborative team with shared responsibility for strategy, operations and marketing communications.

Amoveo Mundi, formerly Global True Purpose, is a fiscally sponsored non-profit organization. Our mission is to create a transformed global society based on new paradigms.  We do this by first facilitating dialogue among leaders of key human institutions such as business, government, the military and media to generate new paradigms, and then consulting where needed in the process of implementing the new paradigm models.

Cofounder

Speaking Circles® International

- Managed strategy and operations for global training company offering teleseminars, workshops, and coaching in the field of public speaking and business presentations.
- Expanded Facilitator Certification program to include 3-month practice and evaluation segment.
- Developed and maintained three websites.

Vice President

Gene Logic

Gene Logic is a leading integrated genomics company providing comprehensive Genomic Reference Databases and GLP compliant Microarray Services. Pharma companies, leading research institutes and emerging biotech companies worldwide utilize their expertise for understanding underlying mechanisms of diseases, discovery and prioritization of gene targets & biomarkers.

- Drove design specification process for gene expression bioinformatics application.
- Led team of 7 engineers through software design, coding, and testing of user interface layer.

Lead Software Engineer, User Interface Development

Resolution Sciences Corporation

- Designed software development process, converting a prototype 3D microscopy viewer to a commercial-quality product for the medical and materials research industries.  
- Drove process from design and coding through testing, documentation, release and customer support.  
- Led rearchitecture plus development of new algorithms and product features.

Project Manager and Lead Software Engineer

Visual Concepts

- Built internal Tools/Technologies Group to support 3D video game development.
- Designed scalable tools development process.
- Pioneered use of steering committee to improve communication between departments.
- Designed and developed custom game development tools.

Project Manager and Lead Software Engineer, Tools & Technologies

Autodesk

- Promoted to manager of 3D Studio product line, for film and video game industries.
- Supervised 6-10 programmers and led core team of Quality Assurance, Technical Publications, Product Management, Marketing, Localization, Sales, Operations and Product Support.
- Technologies included 3D modeling and rendering, 2D draw and paint, image processing, keyframe animation and sound editing.

Project Manager

Island Graphics Corp

- Co-developed a 2D graphics engine and a PostScript interpreter.  
- Promoted to manager of core technology group for all products, serving the prepress industry.
- Was co-inventor of Island's object-based trapping technology, earning two patents.

Project Lead and Senior Software Engineer

Do you want to feel a greater sense of purpose and meaning in your work? You might be feeling frustrated, burned out, or simply uninspired by the work you do. You know that you are meant to do more with your life. 

One of my passions is to bring clarity of purpose and direction to help leaders find more meaningful work. Throughout my career journey, I've had a few career transitions, each leading to more fulfilling work. These experiences have inspired me to express my purpose in helping others find that same level of alignment.

Another passion of mine is to guide organizations to the clarity of purpose and direction that maximizes their positive impact. When an organization aligns with its deeper purpose in how it does business, it increases inspiration and engagement among employees, clients, and stakeholders.

In service to this mission, since 2003, Clear Change Group offers: 

FOR INDIVIDUALS:

•	Purpose-Based Career Change
•	Life Purpose Discovery
•	True Purpose® Coach and Consultant Training

FOR ORGANIZATIONS:

•	Organizational Higher Purpose 

WHAT CLIENTS SAY:

“I was deeply stuck at a career crossroads when I started working with Audrey. By the time we finished I had absolute clarity on the direction I wanted to take my career, in a way that didn’t feel possible before we started. We dug in to so much more than just my career direction in our sessions, helping me find strengths I’d been searching for for many years that had been elusively invisible to me. I recommend her without reservation!”

     — Chris Pryor

“Audrey’s expertise to guide a group or organization to name their higher purpose is second to none. This methodology (TPI) is unique in how deep it goes to reveal the purpose that exists energetically rather than feeling like another corporate brainstorming activity. The benefit is a truly inspiring and intrinsically motivating purpose that feels ‘right’ to everyone involved. I’m grateful for this purpose discovery that is guiding our intentions, strategies, and outcomes. Her patience and compassion ensure that you will work through resistance and get to the finish line.”

     — Andy Swindler

PURPOSE ALIGNMENT QUIZ AND MORE INFORMATION:

Is your work out of alignment with your purpose? Take our quick quiz to zero in on where to bridge the gap at https://assess.coach/clearchangegroup/.

If you'd like to chat and explore your vision of your ideal career, you are welcome to DM me.

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