Michael O. “Coop” Cooper is the creator of the MindMafia Mapping Method. For the past 15 years he has been helping clients make decisions and shift thinking to build organizations capable of sustainable success in highly dynamic business environments. His areas of expertise include strategy formulation and implementation, culture shifting, behavioral change, organization and process design, leadership development, organizational change management and personal change management.
Coop has worked with leading global companies and has lead consulting and leadership development efforts in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Romania and Egypt. Over the course of his career, Coop has led consulting and development engagements with clients such as Cambridge Technology Partners, eBay, Bite Communications, Engage PR, Novell, Seagate, Honda, Vodafone, Verizon, Southwest Airlines, Wells Fargo and Sony to name a few.
His unique expertise is in delving into the psyche of the individuals he coaches to uncover the subconscious drivers and psychological factors that control behavior and quickly shifting the way an individual thinks so they can make quick, confident decisions and lasting behavioral changes. Combining strategy and personalized leadership development with executive coaching results in powerful shifts for executives and their organizations.
Coop is a frequent speaker on leadership issues, cultural shifts and behavioral change. He is a serial entrepreneur, leading three successful companies and is the founder of ExecuShift, an executive coaching company transforming businesses into Socially Sustainable Systems and developer of the InnateBrilliance methodology, which combines innate brain function, gifted talents and life purpose. He is the founding president of the International Association of Coaching and was recognized as an entrepreneur of the year by the City of San Francisco in 2006. He holds an MBA from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University with a special emphasis in Information Systems and Global Strategic Management and a BA from Virginia Tech with degrees in History, Communications Studies and Technology Education.
