Mike Grigg

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Current/Most Recent Company/Position: Global Director and Certified Leadership Coach (Specializing in Strategy | Change | Enablement), APAX Coaching

Background/Interest Areas/Expertise: I am an executive coach by trade, which means my team and I coach CEO’s and their strategic teams to make substantial business impact in people, profit, and products.

Professionally I work with global organizations, with people from 90+ countries, I speak semi-fluent Mandarin (我会讲中文) and most often work with technically oriented talented people that create future products and services in software, hardware, product design, product/project management, and sales/marketing for start-ups.

I have 2 main roles in my job:

1. designing and coordinating coaching projects to transform the way organizations perceive the world, and positively impact in and beyond their roles.
2. designing pitch-decks and proposing to decision makers, have helped startups secure $5+ billion in the last 7 years for IoT, sensors, Industry 4.0, smart devices, automobile safety, robotics, future of transportation.

Outside of work, I enjoy hanging out with my family; hiking/camping in the Pacific Northwest, traveling, helping my wife tend to her organic farm to table passion, and hanging out with cool people.