Michael G. Sanders, Sr., PhD
Partner, Vice President of Product Development
Dr. Mike Sanders has performed research and created products that address the full spectrum of personnel issues including: special operation soldier leadership assessment and selection, training in leader development, and personnel attrition and retention evaluation. Dr. Sanders was instrumental in visioning and the development of the US Army Special Operation Command’s Adaptable Leader training and development program.
As a partner in Human Resource Tactics (HRT), Dr. Sanders has created tests and applied these tests in profiling college football and basketball players for National Football League (NFL) and National Basketball Association (NBA) teams. HRT assesses and profiles over 650 of the nation’s best college football players each year for 12 NFL teams in preparation for the NFL Draft. He has conducted workshops on NFL player assessment and consulted with sports, military, and business leaders on personnel assessment, selection, and leader development issues.
For over thirteen years Dr. Sanders has provided and continues to provide consultative support to elite military units belonging to the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) and US Marine Corps. He has developed scenarios, exercises, and evaluation procedures and applied these assessment and training processes to Officers in the Special Forces Qualification Course and Special Mission Units. He assessed personnel for suitability for different missions within USASOC and provided assessment findings to senior leaders for personnel selection decisions.
Dr. Sanders holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Texas Tech University and has performed as an Industrial Organizational Psychologist in both commercial and military settings. His work has been used as a basis for policy decisions at all levels of the Army. He currently serves as Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at North Carolina State University. Dr. Sanders has published over 100 papers, technical reports, and articles on the development of people.
Dr. Sanders co-founded Adaptable Leadership, LLC to transfer his knowledge and experience in the development of Adaptable Leaders to Corporate America. The soldiers he trained went on missions where their life and the lives of those on their teams depended on them being highly adaptable and effective. Likewise, business leaders today are being counted on to be highly adaptable and effective in carrying out their missions. Dr. Sanders is now serving as Vice President of Product Development for Adaptable Leadership, LLC.
Michael G. Sanders, Jr.
President and Co-Founder
Mike Sanders completed his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia in 1996. After graduation Mike moved to China to serve on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ. He studied Mandarin Chinese and taught Business English to Chinese college students during this time. Returning from China Mike’s career continued with a technology firm in Atlanta where he quickly became the top producing Regional Sales Manager. To pursue further advancements, Mike joined the sales team at Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. During his tenure with Pfizer he was recognized with numerous awards for sales achievement and leadership accomplishments. Mike was instrumental in the design and implementation of a sales training program for a key biotech drug. Mike served on Pfizer’s Commercial Innovation and Strategy Advisory board where he contributed to the design of new business models to commercialize Pfizer’s products in the United States.
Mike co-founded Adaptable Leadership, LLC to create organizational leadership prepared for the unknown challenges of tomorrow. He saw that companies that create adaptive corporate cultures outperform companies with non-adaptive corporate cultures 900 to 1 as measured by long term net income and stock price growth.[i] The rapid changes in business today leave too many leaders using old strategies to solve new problems. Mike is now serving as the President of Adaptable Leadership, LLC.
