Michael Balch

As a speaker Michael Balch has written three books and spoken about increasing productivity in business and life through out-of-the-ordinary strategies. As the builder and producer of some of the most successful businesses over his career Michael Balch will show the processes, he used to rewrite the industry defaults and standard over three decades.one of the many things that sets Michael from other speakers is that he “carried the bag,” “walked the walk,” and “practices what he preached.”

Michael has produced, managed and run some of the world's most notable firms such as Bank of America, Kemper, Janus, Merrill Lynch and Fidelity. While rising to the top of those firms helped propel those firms it was as a business owner and entrrepreneur with less intrusion that he re-wrote many standards and blew up status quos and defaults while watching the rest of his competitors following him.

Michael Balch's experience will show you how we, industries and society, have conformed to defaults and standard quos. In other words, we have become "farmers." We plant our seeds, harvest our crops, and then repeat again and again. This is what is called "ordinary" progress. As a society we, the farmers, follow the path of least resistance. We don't stray far from the "ordinary" trail. We believe that what has worked in the past will work in the future. If we are to fail or succeed, we are going to do it together.  Thus, "safety in numbers."

Michael's research will prove that farming and the concept of "safety in numbers" only prolongs failure and thwarts true growth and success. Today we are going from pandemic to opportunity. We are moving from crisis, to chaos, to change. COVID has blown up our "ordinary." The chaos deriving from the pandemic is bringing on opportunity and change at a rate never seen before. It is during times of chaos that we show the world how creative we are and how we can rewrite the "ordinary," mainly because there is no more "ordinary" as we knew it.

The Bubonic Plague kicked off the Renaissance while the Spanish Flu started the roaring 20's. Today, COVID will be the catalyst to the re-roaring 20's. We need to stop thinking ordinarily and start thinking "out-of-the-ordinary." You need to go from "farmer" to "hunter."

We need to refocus our defaults. How will this "OUT-OF-THE-ORDINARY" strategy do this?

It will captivate you.

It will disturb you.

It will motivate you.

It will turn a strategic concept into a tactical method and process.