Organization, Career and Life Transformation Coach

For Founders, CEOs and Executives

Organizational Issues

  • CEO Impact

  • Senior team performance

  • Leadership structure

  • Collaborative, accountable culture

  • Board effectiveness

  • Succession

Career Concerns

  • Working from deeper purpose

  • Making your next move

  • Growing your impact

  • Achieving work-life balance

  • Managing conflict

  • Handling problematic personalities

  • Retirement and your second act

Life Concerns

  • Leading a more meaningful, purpose-driven life

  • Navigating the next phase

  • Marital issues

  • Wealth and its pitfalls

  • Helping children launch

  • Emotional well-being

  • Family issues in family business

Rare Breadth and Depth of Expertise

I am Mike Kaufman, a transformation coach focused on your full range of concerns — organization, career and life — in a single engagement.

Ordinary coaches and consultants are narrowly focused and often lack rigor. I bring rare depth to your challenges and goals.

  • Leadership experience: Wall Street, technology companies, Harvard (MBA), leadership instructor at Booth Business School.

  • Psychological insight: University of Chicago (PhD), Northwestern (MA), Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis (Postdoc), licensed clinician, clinical instructor at Nothwestern Medical School.

  • Research knowledge: Deep understanding of successful people’s lives and the drivers to happiness, based on my pioneering research at the University of Chicago and published work.

  • Tools to quickly size up your concerns and build an actionable game plan to help you catalyze transformation.


If you are a senior leader and want a credible expert, reach out for a complimentary consultation. 

I work with investment firms, family businesses and middle market companies.