Michael Bungay Stanier

Michael Bungay Stanier BA, LLB, M.Phil, CPCC, is the founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons.

Michael was the 2006 Canadian Coach of the Year. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and holds a Masters of Philosophy from Oxford, and law and arts degrees with highest honors from the Australian National University.

He created Get Unstuck & Get Going on the stuff that matters, a multi-award-winning coaching program and tool that’s being used in organizations around the world. Leading management thinker Peter Block says it has “a quiet political message in it that coaching is available to all of us and is not a profession but a way of being with each other.”

He also created The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun , The 5 3/4 Questions You’ve Been Avoiding, and The Great Work Movie , short internet movies that have been seen by well over a million people in at least 175 countries around the world.

Michael’s latest book is Do More Great Work (Workman Press, 2010) a revised and expanded version of Find Your Great Work (Box of Crayons Press, 2009).

Michael is a popular speaker at business and coaching conferences.  Recently he has spoken at the SHRM, the OD Network, and the International Coaching Federation conferences.

Prior to founding Box of Crayons, Michael held senior positions in the corporate, consultancy and agency worlds in the UK, the United States and Canada.

Courses taught by Michael Bungay Stanier
Do More Great Work!