Mike is a Director on Life Spring Network’s Board.  He writes and speaks for Life Spring Network.  In addition to the forgoing, Mike is responsible for raising awareness of Life Spring Network as well as developing partnerships with like-minded organizations.  He is also the president of E Pluribus Partners, a leadership training and coaching firm.

Mike speaks, teaches, coaches and writes about values-based leadership, discipleship, connection and Christian character.  He speaks and teaches at organizations including GE, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, NASA, the U.S. Treasury Department and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business, Texas Christian University, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and the Center for Creative Leadership.  Articles Michael has written have appeared in leadership periodicals around the world including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Japan, India, and Dubai.  He is a regular contributor to Crosswalk.com and The Economic Times (India’s largest circulation business periodical).  Michael also writes for the Life Spring Network blog and his award-winning blog at  www.michaelleestallard.com.  Mike and Jason are co-authors with Carolyn Dewing-Hommes of the book Fired Up or Burned Out (Thomas Nelson).

In the first half of Mike’s first career he was chief marketing officer for the private wealth management businesses of Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab. Earlier in his career he was an executive in finance and marketing at Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Texas Instruments and Van Kampen Merritt.  Mike is a teaching fellow at the Trinity Institute for Spiritual Formation and a longtime active member who has served as an elder and in other leadership roles in the local churches he and his wife Katie have been members of in Wheaton, Illinois and Greenwich, Connecticut.  Michael and Katie are the parents of two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah.