Mike McDannell

Organizational Effectiveness Practice Leader

Mike McDannell has led the CCI Organizational Effectiveness Practice for the last seven years.  Mike brings unquestionable subject matter expertise to the areas of leadership & competency development, pre-employment and development assessments, organizational design & development and employee engagement as well as process redesign. Mike has consulted to an impressive list of Fortune 1000 companies in virtually every industry including manufacturing, financial services, communications, and the U.S. government. 

Mike began his career in the military upon graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point.  A career military officer achieving the rank of Colonel, Mike served in a variety of assignments alternating between operations and teaching leadership domestically at West Point and in Germany, Sri Lanka, and Saudi Arabia.  Mike also served as an expert witness on gender issues including the Citadel case, the President’s Commission on Women in the Armed Services and the President’s Blue Ribbon Panel on gender issues at Texas A+M.  Recently, Mike designed and delivered leadership training to over 90 CEOs in an Executive MBA program in Chengdu, China.  Mike brings to Career Concepts a full compendium of training and leadership programs that he has delivered to over 70 companies such as Bank of Paris, Mattel Toy Company, Sikorsky High Tech Division, Oscar Mayer, AIG and UPS.  His style is highly interactive, engaging, entertaining and typifies behavior change and bottom line results. 

Mike’s specialties include leadership development, strategy, corporate governance, finance, manufacturing, engineering, and federal and military matters.

Mike is also a guest lecturer at Wharton School of Business, Adjunct Faculty at Villanova University and the EMBA Program, at The University of Mexico and was an instructor for The Marshall Center for International Cooperation, NATO.  Mike currently serves on the Board of Directors at the Freedoms Foundation.  Mike holds a B.S. in Engineering from West Point and an MBA from Yale University.