Michael Landers

20 years working with Fortune 500 organizations and global teams — Apple, Google, Uber, SAP among them — navigating cultural complexity, organizational change, and leadership transitions across 30+ countries. 125,000+ participants across five continents — keynotes, workshops, and sustained organizational accompaniment helping teams navigate post-merger integration, global expansion, and leadership succession. Author of Culture Crossing (Berrett-Koehler) and Present Company (Conscious Capitalism Press), published in multiple languages, featured in BBC, Fast Company, and The Times of London. Founder of Human Due Diligence — structural assessment of founder capacity, pressure patterns, and scaling constraints for investors and venture studios.

Most high-stakes leadership decisions rely on the same things: track record, references, interviews, gut. All three tell you what someone has done. None of them tell you what they can hold as complexity grows. That gap, between what got someone here and what the next stage requires, is readable before the decision is made. No standard process reads it. HDD does. Human Due Diligence is a private advisory practice for leadership decisions where the cost of being wrong is unusually high. We produce a structural picture of how a founder, coach, or executive operates under the specific pressures the role will demand, where their capacity will hold, where it will strain, and where it is likely to fracture before failures appear in the metrics. Not a personality test. Not a reference check. Not an algorithm. We work across three arenas where the cost of getting it wrong is highest: venture and growth-stage investment, senior executive placement, and high-performance sport. We also work with the leaders themselves, founders, CEOs, and head coaches who want a genuine outside read on how they are structured to perform through what comes next. The engagement is an in-person conversation, half to full day. We don't focus on what people say. We observe how their thinking moves, where it stalls, and what they reach for when certainty runs out. Findings are delivered as a Structural Capacity Dossier within one week, designed to fit your existing decision timeline, not extend it. Answers can be prepared. Structural patterns cannot. humanduediligence.com

The ALC Education Inc. Global Management Program (GMP) is an English language management course designed with the specific aim of creating global leaders. It is aimed at Japanese business professionals with more than 5 years experience from any industry.

I deliver group programs for global organizations. These programs include Behavioral Interviewing, Coaching Skills for Executive and Managers as well as Leadership, Team Effectiveness and HR Consulting.

In charge of exclusively retained candidate recruitment for leading Fortune 200/500 firms throughout Europe and North America. Surfaced, interviewed, and placed candidates. Brokered and negotiated candidate contracts and interfaced with Global Human Resource executives to develop research and planning tactics. Industry focus: Financial, Pharmaceutical, Hi-tech and Advertising. Positions filled (partial): Director of Advertising - Italy, Greece, and Amsterdam (Head of EU

Developed Internet research databases and job boards. Surfaced, interviewed and placed candidates for retained clients throughout North/South America. Brokered and negotiated candidate contracts. Industry focus: Strategic Professional Services, Real Estate, Energy, Hi-tech, Investment Banking, Computer Programming.

Surfaced, interviewed, and placed candidates for retained clients throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America. Established new contracts with Investment and Commercial banks based in Europe and South America. Devised international relocation packages to include compensation, transition management and spouse/child assistance. Industry focus: Equity Derivatives, Reinsurance, Investment and Commercial Banking.