Founder of Quotient, has over three decades of experience providing strategic innovation at the critical early stages of the innovation process.
Michael is an accomplished engineer and product designer with dozens of patents under his belt. Michael now teaches design thinking at his alma mater, Stanford, and is often regarded as a coach by those around him.
His clients have included: Sony, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, HP, Merck, Intel, Shure, Johnson Diversey, Sony Ericsson, Nestlé, Cliff Bar, Chick-fil-A, Wells Fargo Bank, Wrigley, Deloitte, Chrysler, Panasonic, Google, Kaiser Permanente and Unilever.
He has worked around the world for the past 30 years conducting design research for: health care, home care, food trends, sustainability and consumer packaged goods, ocean conservancy, systems change, organizational leadership, exploring the relationship between high technology and our evolving culture.
He is an Adjunct Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University (the d.School), teaching Needfinding for Systems Change, Design Thinking, Cross Cultural Design, Problem Solving and Decision Making for Public Policy and Social Change and IDP Design Thesis. A guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Business and the University of California Haas School of Business, Michael teaches the nation's top students how to link innovation with deeper insights into people and their culture.