MICHAEL J. FENLON
Executive Education Faculty
Columbia Business School

Michael Fenlon has ten years of experience serving as a consultant to senior management in a variety of industries. He works in the areas of leadership and senior team development, strategy formulation and implementation; organizational assessment, diagnosis and change management; organization design; and culture change. His projects have included work in merger integration and organization change related to the implementation of enterprise resource planning systems. He has specialized expertise in executive leadership development, and in designing and leading global executive education initiatives as vehicles for accelerated strategic change. He frequently directs off-site senior team retreats and workshops.

Dr. Fenlon's research has focused on leadership development and the impact of management practices on commitment and innovation. Prior to joining the Executive Education faculty, he served as a principal of his own consulting practice and most recently as a Principal Consultant with Price Waterhouse LLP.

Dr. Fenlon's client experience includes work with American Express, AT&T, CPC International, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ericsson, Equitable, GKN, Hoffmann-La Roche, NationsBank, Kmart, The National Governors' Association of the United States, Pfizer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Storage Technology Corporation, Sun Microsystems, VNS, United States Customs Service, and work on the merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand. He also serves on the board of advisors of a start-up incubator in New York City.

Professor Fenlon received his Ph.D. and three master's degrees from Columbia University, and his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. He serves as the faculty director of the Leadership Development Program, the Fundamentals of Management: Highlights from Columbia's Core MBA Curriculum, and is a Director of the Columbia Senior Executive Program. He has also served as a faculty member in Executive Programs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Leadership and Organization at Teacher's College, Columbia University.