Michael Frugé

Mike has extensive domestic and international experience working with individuals and groups at all organization levels, from senior executives to first-line supervisors and employees in represented and non-represented companies. He has been in the management consultant field since 1976, and has served client organizations in both the public and private sectors. A partial list of clients include the following Companies; AtlanticRichfield, Dow Chemical, Intel, LSG Sky Chef, General Motors Corporation, British Petroleum, Avon, Revlon, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, Washington Mutual Bank, Fluor Corporation and the Child Welfare League of America in Washington, DC.

He has also co-authored a number of articles which have been featured in national publications on Competency Models and Leadership Development including Employment Relations Today ("Software-Assisted Performance Feedback Increases Personal and Organizational Success."), Training Magazine ("Performance Dimensions: Competencies with A Twist."), Executive Development Journal ( "Teaching Middle Managers to Think Like Executives." ), and Special contributor to the textbook and instructor's manual, Michael E. Brock, "Dynamics of Supervision." Dryden Press, Division of Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada Limited.

A frequent speaker at local, national and international conferences on Developing High Performance Teams and Leadership Development. He has spoken on such topics as:

Assessing Board Leadership Style: Understanding How Individual and Team-Based Behaviors Affect Board Productivity.

Designing, Implementing and Measuring Competency Based Organizational and Management Development.

Understanding Values and Behaviors required to be Successful in Today's Work Environment.

Framework of Management Education for Executives, Managers and Supervisors.

Managing Change from an Authoritarian, State-Controlled Economy to a Market-Driven, Employee-Owned Firm in a Capitalistic Economy

Prior to joining Wolf Management Consultants, Mike was Managing Principal of the HRD Group which represented organization development practitioners who have a track record of designing and delivering outstanding result-driven Executive and Leadership programs.

Prior to establishing the HRD Group 1994, Mike was a Consulting Director for Johnson & Johnson Learning Services; Manager of Human Resource Development, ARCO Transportation Company; Manager of Training & Development, ARCO Oil & Gas Company; Personnel Generalist, General Motors Corporation. He is a former Athletic Director and Director of Conference and Executive Development at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, Michigan.

Mike has an MA and BS degree in Education from Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. He is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, The National Organization Development Network, The Society for Human Resource Management and past member of the University of Michigan Human Resource Partnership.