for agencies: elevate your people
build a culture that cares
When your culture is strong, and your people are cared for and feeling valued, they're going to be happier - elevating EVERYTHING.
When you care about your people, your people care about the work. It's cyclical. And it's important.
Otherwise, you're constantly turning over new talent and you're not able to cultivate and groom good people for the long term.
When you're not actively creating a culture that cares, you're actually creating a culture of toxicity, bitterness, and unhappiness where the best and brightest are burnt out, work becomes exhausting and unfulfilling, and your people are looking for an escape between meetings.
Supercharge your approach to talent radically – and quickly – to maintain staff, nurture skills and development, improve culture, and drive business growth.
I can help.
real results
“Michael has changed the way I look at what I want from my career and how I find happiness in the work that I am doing”
- Florina, Group Media Director
“I never knew how great it could be working with a content creator who GETS it. Mathilde really gets it.”
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- rachel, photographer
Ways to Work Together
Group Workshops
Perfect for one-time professional development sessions for your team.
1:1 Coaching
For Executives or your Emerging Stars. 6 month 1:1 plans available to up-level your talent.
Custom Consulting
Operations development and process need an overhaul? I know what works for all agency sizes.
coaching for emerging talent
Cultivate and care for your junior level high-performers, NOW. Before they end up selling you your next house.
This type of coaching is typically reserved for execs only, but your emerging talent are exactly the ones who could use this training earlier on... They're the overachievers who could be really fantastic, long-term employees, but in that 3-5 year span, burnout, and stress compounds.
invest in your superstars
This often under-cared for group is one key to long-term sustainable agency growth.
executive coaching
Grow the leaders who grow leaders.
A GOOD FIT FOR YOU IF:
You're a millennial or gen-xer looking for alignment as your personal values and lifestyle evolve.
We'll work on personal alignment - meaning matching our actions with goals and desires, while simultaneously building better leadership and empathy skills to help grow your team and contribution to the world around you.
The Manifesto:
“FIND WORK YOU LIKE DOING WITH PEOPLE YOU ENJOY SPENDING TIME WITH.”
- michael cardini
Group Workshops
empower your team with
group coaching workshops
For execs or emerging talent
Own Your Agency
Bring a pen and paper to this empowering workshop that puts you in the driver’s seat of your life (ie - owning your own agency). Gain a clear vision of what’s working and what’s not in your life today, define your vision for where you want to go, and plan your next action steps to get yourself there.
You’ll leave this workshop with a new model for your life which you’ll come back to again and again.
FOR EXECS OR EMERGING TALENT
The Three Most Important Questions
Many people struggle to be truly fulfilled in their lives today. Even if we think we’re doing everything right and are working hard to achieve our goals, we’re still not as happy as we’d like to be.
What if the secret to your happiness formula lies in three simple, yet profound questions which can shed light on your truest aspirations and values in life?
This workshop will set you on the path to better goal setting and aligning your actions with your goals, fast.
The signature empowerment workshop to master writing your own story
Your Hero's Journey
Too many people allow themselves to be an ancillary character in their own story.
This half-day workshop guides attendees through the six stages of their own Hero's Journey as the protagonist in their own story.
Using the classic Joseph Campbell theories, attendees learn how to align their passions with their careers, while taking a more proactive lead in drafting how their story unfolds.
85%
say it shows them that their employer
cares about them.
87%
say it helps them move forward with
their careers.
87%
say it helps them overcome challenges
find it valuable for business and life.
97%
*Percentages of people who participate in organizational coaching, according to the 2022 Work Life Coaching Report
custom
consulting
strategic
media
media
operations Development
I love building out team and agency structures which allow people to grow and take ownership.
culture
build a thriving culture
I've been around the block in the media industry working with small, scrappy brands, to $300M accounts. I'm your guy to level up your next pitch or plan.
A great opportunity is why people come, a thriving culture is why people stay. Let’s build out what this means for your current or expanding teams.
Want to work together?
grab a spot on my calendar
Let's talk about how I can best support your unique business and needs. Grab a spot on my calendar and let's do this!
