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Michael Popowits
Senior Consultant |
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Michael Popowits is an executive coach, management consultant and facilitator with over 10 years of experience training business professionals. He adapts the extraordinary communication skills of improvisational theater to the business environment to create dozens of experiential training programs on management styles, listening, presentation and interview skills, conflict resolution, work/life balance and team leadership. His clients include Xerox, RR Donnelley, Golin/Harris, Phillips Petroleum, Navistar, 3M, and Golin/Harris International.
Mr. Popowits has 15 years of teaching experience, holding several faculty positions. Since 1988 he has been on faculty at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC) business school and has facilitated CEO forums for the UIC Family Business Council. He is also an associate faculty member of the Second City Training Center, teaching improvisational theater techniques to performers, and business team dynamics for The Second City Communications. In 2003 Mr. Popowits joined the faculty of the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, teaching presentation and writing skills for MBA students.
Before entering management consulting Mr. Popowits worked as an auditor and information systems consultant with Laventhol & Horwath. He is a CPA and a certified practitioner of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI). He received his business education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Vienna in Austria , and then worked in Austria for two years with a Fulbright-AAEC teaching scholarship. He received his theater training in Chicago at the Players Workshop and at The Second City Training Center, and he has worked as an improvisation teacher, coach, director, and ensemble performer.
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