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Michael C. Montanari, M.S.
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Mike Montanari is an organizational, management, team and personal wellness consultant in independent practice. Prior to that he was Director of Quality Management for Community Hospital of Los Gatos, Performance Improvement Consultant, Good Samaritan Health Systems, Director of Quality Management, Good Samaritan Hospital, Management Consultant, Training and Development Manager, Gilroy Foods, and for several years Division Training Manager, FMC Corporation, in San Jose. He has acquired a broad business proficiency and depth of expertise in organizational, management, work team, and personal systems design, development, and sustainment. Prior to his FMC experience he was a manager and pilot in the United States Navy.

Born and raised in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he completed his undergraduate work in business administration at St. Michael' College, Winooski, Vermont. Mike received his Master's degree in Management and Organizational Development at United States International University, San Diego, California.

Mike has successfully worked in a wide variety of fast-paced, demanding, and changing environments in high technology, food processing, manufacturing, banking and health care industries. In addition to his focus on organizational design, development, and improved effectiveness, he has specialized skills in quality improvement, performance management, team facilitation, coaching, personal performance, and learning designs. He has been involved in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of several complex and impactful quality management, organizational redesign projects and performance improvement. Some major accomplishments include:

Developed and implemented a Board of Trustees strategic planning and development process, includeing mission statements, defining produce line priorities and organization structure, and designing marketing plans to introduce services to consumer markets. Created an organizational environment that contributed new and innovative ways to markedly improve the quality and delivery of services.

Designed and implemented performance improvement strategies and activities for 105 teams in a variety of corporate, business, operational, and support functions, with a specific focus on meeting and exceeding customer service requirements. Results included increased product cycle time, improved quality, productivity, financial results, and increased customer satisfaction.

Developed, in collaboration with the Chief Executive Officer and staff, a comprehensive management system that included benchmarking, communication strategies, priority project identification, competency development, resource utilization, and evaluation of results. This strategy established the foundation for understanding and acceptance of management redesign concepts resulting in substantial system wide improvements.

Initiated, created, and led a company executive team in an innovative and focused visioning process. Introduced and implemented a change management structure to respond to the need for increased support for operationally driven improvements. The process and design structure was instrumental in setting critical priorities, communicating goals, and generating specific department improvement plans, and contributed significantly to the elimination of a $1 million deficit.

He has experienced success in these projects and completely understands the challenges of change and transition. He is a certified facilitator in problem solving, decision making, planning, management practices, and interpersonal skills.