Michael Williams
Michael Williams has the unique ability to raise people’s confidence and to unleash their innate gifts and abilities in order to achieve progress toward the life they want to live. He is a serial entrepreneur, gifted facilitator and experience designer . He founded Goodwin Investment Advisory and Williams and Jansen Investments, which lead him to invest in the launch of High Road Craft Ice Cream . He has gained a wealth of leadership experience having served as theExecutive Director of Leadercast , the largest leadership development event in the world. With the realization that many of the highlights of his corporate and entrepreneurial endeavors involved working with others to grow personally and professionally, he has committed his life to helping people, ideas, and experiences come alive.
Michael gets energy facilitating this learning and that is why he dedicates time teaching at universities, schools, and companies of all sizes. He is a certified facilitator with The Arbinger Institute, The Transformative Action Institute and The Center for Courage and Renewal.
Michael has served as a professor at Watson University, Georgia State University and guest lecturers at Berry College and Clayton State University teaching Social Entrepreneurship, Nonprofit Management, Negotiations, Advanced Entrepreneurship, and Professional Sales.
Michael holds an MBA in International Business Development and Marketing. He has served on the Board of Directors of two international NGO’s and as a Director for numerous startup companies. In 2010, Berry College awarded Michael the Most Outstanding Young Alumni Award and he was awarded the Hosea Williams Award for Community Activism by the City of Atlanta.