Thriving Leaders
Effective Boards
Michael Le Roy Associates provides confidential advisory services for boards, executives, and their teams, helping them to excel daily, to lead wisely, and to embrace strategically important change.
Work with us
Michael advises presidents, CEOs, and boards across sectors and across the country. Though company or institution size and health may vary, Michael works with leaders who are hungry to learn, to grow, and recognize the need for candid independent perspective. For leaders and boards who seek to sharpen organizational performance, prepare for transitions, improve board-executive relations, Michael grounds his advisory services in decades of executive experience.
Executive
Advising
For leaders seeking an experienced, confidential sounding board for a range of organizational challenges. Advising services are customized to your specific leadership and organizational needs and may be project based, coaching engagements, or as an on-call confidential advisor.
Executive
Transitions
For executives considering retirement or a transition, Michael serves Fortune 500 executives and non-profit leaders as a certified advisor in partnership with MyNextSeason. Michael, in partnership with MyNextSeason, supports the executive in the development of a customized plan, caring for you as you discern, prepare for, and navigate your transition.
Executive
Advising
Executive
Transitions
Governance & Board Development
Governance & Board Development
For boards seeking to improve mission focus, strategic alignment, executive performance, and board effectiveness Michael offers board leadership development and education designed to improve board performance. Michael also assists boards with independent assessment tools, 360 executive performance review and board-executive collaboration.
Leadership is as challenging as it has ever been
Strategic focus necessary for success is constantly buffeted by economic volatility, cultural conflict, and patterns of institutional distrust. Michael has provided senior executive and board leadership for more than 18 years. For senior executives, Michael is a wise, empathetic confidant committed to advancing the client’s leadership goals. He recognizes that strong, effective executive teams are the critical ingredient to organizational performance and success. Michael assists corporate and non-profit boards to acquire and maintain a strategic focus that supports high-performing leaders.
About Michael
Michael Le Roy is an accomplished University President, independent board director, and strategist who is passionate about investing in leaders. He has lived and understands the full claim that executive leadership has on people’s lives and supports boards to be effective and leaders to thrive. Michael has a proven track record of leading institutions to meet challenges with success, developing highly effective teams, and coaching others to become better problem-solvers and leaders. He is the president emeritus of Calvin University, where he created and executed a strategic vision that transformed the institution from a college to a university and drove a dramatic financial turnaround. He additionally revitalized the university’s board dynamic to create greater engagement in strategy and financial performance. Previously, Michael co-led Whitworth University’s transition from a college to university where he brought focus to the university’s portfolio of offerings, strategic goals, and performance.
Michael is a Board Director of Macatawa Bank, a publicly traded company (MCBC) and serves on the Audit, Trust, and Compensation Committees. An accomplished speaker and author, he has won multiple awards for excellence in teaching and research, including the prestigious Fulbright Award, which supported his research at Gothenburg University in Sweden. He earned a PhD from Vanderbilt University and a BA from Whitworth University. One of Michael’s most powerful life experiences came while journeying on a 32-day, 542-mile Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. He is currently at work on a book providing leadership guidance to new college and university presidents.
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