Inspirational SPEAKER & TRAINER
We motivate and inspire teams and individuals to be enthusiastic, embrace innovation and disruption, seek relentless improvement, never give up, and never settle for mediocrity.
You have true potential to achieve greatness!
Michael Foss CoachFoss Coach Foss
You need to innovate. You know it, but you a have a sense that it’s going to take you out of your comfort zone. We are here to help. We specialize in creating transformational change in a stable way. Sound impossible? We should talk!
Are you ready to embrace innovation and disruption within your organization? We will inspire and motivate your company, team, or group to be enthusiastic, seek relentless improvement, and never settle for mediocrity.
Moving you from where you are to where you want to be!
“I had the opportunity to serve alongside Michael on Board of Trustees for the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers. Michael was the President of the Board during our tenure together. His leadership and passion provided inspiration for the organization to pursue and achieve ambitious objectives. If your organization is facing a challenge or opportunity that presents a need for continuous improvement or transformational change, I have no doubt Michael will bring the energy, motivation, and enthusiasm needed to help you achieve your goals and more.”
- Carl Kirpes, Excellence & Innovation Leader at Marathon Petroleum Corporation
“While at Cameron, Michael was a tremendous asset in developing a good relationship with our number one customer. The guidance and strategy I extracted from our QBR meetings made for mutual success across the board between our two companies. His ideas were more than just process driven; they were success oriented.”
- Brooks Elliott, Vice President of Business Development at Pinch Group of Companies
“I had the great pleasure of serving with Michael when he led the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) as President. Over the three-year span of his leadership, Michael led the organization forward through a combination of vision, collaboration and continuous improvement. His leadership resulted in the development and execution of a multi-year plan to increase membership, member participation and the value delivered by the organization. Michael’s positive, collaborative and inclusive leadership style enables his teams to deliver exceptional results.”
- Rick Wilkinson, VP Global Engineering at Ingram Micro
“Michael and I served together on the board of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. Our terms of service overlapped more than once and we served in multiple capacities, with both of us serving as president. Michael was in my experience the most effective change agent that the organization had. We were all grateful to him.”
- James E. Moore, II, Professor, USC Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California
“It’s rare that you come across an outstanding talent like Michael. I had the pleasure of working with Michael on the Texas Tech University Industrial Engineering Board, the Texas Tech University Industrial Engineering Academy and the Texas Tech University Engineering Dean’s Council over the last 8 years. I am always amazed at Michael’s ability to command a room and get people on board with ideas, even people who were initially on a completely different page. As a team member or a leader, Michael earns my highest recommendation.”
- Charlyn G. Plunk, Owner at CGP Ventura LLC
Speaking
CoachFoss delivers motivational speeches and keynote speeches tailored to your group. He is also a talented panel moderator who can engage any crowd.
Training
If your team is in need of Leadership Training or Continuous Improvement Training, then CoachFoss is your guide. He will equip your people with the skills they need to succeed.
Great leaders understand that to succeed, you succeed with people, and these impactful trainings show you how. It all begins with your decision to become a positive leader, and you can inspire, encourage, and empower others to do. Everything rises and falls on Leadership!
Expanding to your team by building a great culture and a stronger, united, connected & committed team, and leave a legacy of greatness.
You’ll learn the skills to enhance your leadership capability, build trust, create purpose, and make a team more positive and cohesive, leaving with a practical action plan to bring out the best in yourself and your team.
If you are not where you want to be in any of the following areas, I have THE proven solution!
People | Quality | Customer Service / Experience | Efficiency | Productivity | Profit
PROVEN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES THAT DRIVE IMPROVEMENT TOWARDS OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE!
Do you want to be your very best?
Stories are what we tell ourselves and eventually become. And your story comes from your mindset, your belief system.
And it is a choice!
Seven Rules to Help you Achieve Anything in Life you Desire! Your ability to persist in the face of setbacks and disappointments is vital to all great achievement, and it’s always a decision that you make.
There are moments in life when something happens. We make up a story about the why and the what. We start to live as if our story were true. The GOOD NEWS - You can OVERCOME any Limiting Belief!
In 2020, we have had a tough start. Many things have not gone in our favor and certainly not as planned. You might say the enemy has taken the lead so far. We are now halfway through the year, how will 2020 end? THE GAME IS NOT OVER!
Where are you on the bell curve of normality? No matter where you fall on the bell curve in any category, you CAN move to the better end. It takes FOCUS, dreams, goals, actions, accountability, and self-determination. You have to guard your input and your circle of influence.
If you knew your greatest success would come if you did not fear failing, what would you do? Don’t let your fear of failure ever be greater than your fear of inaction for this will surely prevent you from becoming all you are made to be!
It’s been said that “Attitude is Everything”. Attitude is more important than your talent, skill, and ability in determining success. Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? Change your thinking, change your attitude, change your result.
It has been studied and proven that mindset has a significant separator impact in athletes which creates the gap between the best and the rest. Your mindset is a difference maker and can work for you or against you.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
