TRUST MATTERS
The more you focus on developing trust, the more effective your leadership.
Welcome.
Trust drives our faith in societal institutions and financial markets, shapes consumer behavior, and enhances employee engagement. Indeed, trust is a defining characteristic of the highest-performing organizations and most effective leaders. High trust characterizes our most transformative relationships. In short, trust matters.
Working with leaders and teams at many different organizations across industries over the last 30+ years, I’ve seen how trust opens doors to opportunities and can help people and companies grow beyond their wildest expectations. I’ve seen leaders and teams work through trust issues and get to the other side stronger, more resilient, and more productive. I’ve witnessed how trust increases speed and facilitates change. I’ve also seen how organizations can slow or stall without trust.
Enhancing trust has become a fundamental principle in the work that I do: executive coaching of individual leaders and teams, enhancing team effectiveness, facilitating organizational change, and increasing diversity and inclusion.
Meet Dr. Michael Burchell
Dr. Michael Burchell is an expert on workplace culture and change. He is a co-author of Make Work Healthy: Creating a Sustainable Organization with High-Performing Employees (2023), No Excuses: How You Can Turn Any Workplace Into a Great One (2013), and The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep it, and Why It Matters (2011).
He is an Executive Coach and works with individual executives and teams, and he consults with organizations on team effectiveness, diversity and inclusion, and culture change.
He received his doctorate in Diversity and Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. Michael is based in Washington, DC.
Explore the Books
Make Work Healthy
My latest book, written with John Ryan, is an insightful how-to manual for improving organizational performance with a new approach to workforce management.
