Founder Snapshot

Dr. Mike Stegen is a decorated U.S. Air Force leader and Organizational Change & Leadership practitioner with more than two decades focused on human performance and learning. Across a 23-year military career, he received formal decorations for leadership and organizational impact, leading complex, safety-critical programs and serving as Director of the Aerospace Physiology Division at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. His work spanned human factors and safety investigations, instructional systems design, aerospace physiology instruction, curriculum development, and command-level functional management—translating evidence and field realities into safer procedures, clearer roles, and reliable operations.

After retiring from the military, Mike spent two years as Director of Learning & Development on the executive team of a large nonprofit, helping shape organizational strategy while building practical, scalable leadership and manager development. Since 2006 he has taught and designed training that sticks—tools people actually use on the job—and he brings the same clarity and practicality to every engagement with mission-driven organizations.

Mike holds an Ed.D. in Organizational Change & Leadership from the University of Southern California; an M.S. in Organizational Development & Leadership from the University of the Incarnate Word (with Distinction); a B.S. in Sociology from Ashford University (Summa Cum Laude); an A.A.S. in Instructor of Military Science; and a Graduate Certificate in Online Instructional Design from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is also a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Across roles, the through-line is the same: build capable leaders, simplify systems, and leave teams with sustainable habits that drive improved performance.