Michael McDermott
Managing Director, Southwest
Michael McDermott is Managing Director, Southwest, with BPI group, North America.
He joined the organization in 2005, bringing more than 30 years of broad-based business, corporate human resources leadership and an extensive HR consulting background to the firm.
In his current role, Mr. McDermott manages the firm’s southwestern U.S. operations, located in Phoenix, Arizona. He delivers executive transition, executive coaching and organizational and leadership development services. He possesses strong interpersonal skills, allowing him to work effectively with all levels of management. In addition, he is an experienced bottom-line-focused leader with exceptional skills in providing services including leadership effectiveness, organizational planning/development, talent management, team building and culture/environment change.
Prior to his current role, Mr. McDermott was Managing Director, Wisconsin, for BPI group, consisting of offices he successfully opened over a five year period in Milwaukee and Racine. Prior to joining BPI Group, Mr. McDermott was the senior HR leader with Jockey International, Inc. in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Gaylord Container Corporation in Deerfield, Illinois. In addition, he served as a Principal with two human resource consulting firms over a twelve year period. In these positions, Mr. McDermott provided consulting services focused on progressive workplace design, organizational assessment, planning, development, managerial coaching and leadership effectiveness for companies such as Bridgestone USA, Alcoa, TRW and Textron.
Throughout his career, Mr. McDermott has coached hundreds of leaders to achieve their potential, improve their effectiveness, and overcome performance or behavior deficiencies. He has also designed and taught numerous leadership and management development programs for all types of organizations.
Mr. McDermott is certified with both the BPI group Q5 Shared Success and the N.E.W.S. organizational coaching models. He also wrote an article entitled “Top Ten Reasons Why Leaders Fail,” published in the KABA magazine in 2008. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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