About Michael

Michael Henderson has a life long passion for culture. Born in the UK raised in Africa and now living in New Zealand he has the advantage of being able to quickly understand the essence of a culture including its worldview values and underlying assumptions and explain it to others. He is one of the few people working in business today who is able to teach organisations how to see understand and transform culture in real terms.

Michael graduated from Auckland University in 1985 with a Bachelor of arts degree majoring in Anthropology. He then built on this academic knowledge by, traveling extensively over the next seven years studying over 70 cultures and tribes in more than 40 countries. He spent the next ten years working in business and observing the typical approaches and many mistakes organisations take to culture and realised there was a better way.

For the past sixteen years Michael has applied his unique combination of Anthropological skills and practical business experience enables him to support clients in a variety of ways to unlock the power of cultures within their organizations.

He is acknowledged in his own field as a pioneer. Michael is a best selling author of 5 books published by Harper Collins on the impact and benefits of mastering company culture and human values.

Michael has been awarded the Thought Leader Mentor of the Year award in recognition of his innovative and groundbreaking approaches to helping his clients develop and grow their business.

Michael is a Thought Leader Global Partner and the Anthropologist in residence for Thought Leaders.

His Specialties in supporting clients include:

Keynotes:

Chiefing your tribe: How to effectively lead your workplace culture.
Creating workplace cultures worth belonging to: How to create powerful workplace cultures.
Creating work worth doing: How to make the work people do in your organisation meaningful and motivating.