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Mike Figliuolo (born 1970) is an American author, speaker and trainer in business leadership, strategy, and communications. He is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. and proprietor of a course in teaching business leaders to create their own personal leadership maxims. These maxims serve as the basis for his upcoming book, One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1993, and then served as an armor officer in the United States Army. Figliuolo lives in Dublin, Ohio.

About thoughtLEADERS, LLC.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC., founded in 2004, seeks to advance the art of business leadership through hands-on training and coaching led by dynamic businesspeople. All thoughtLEADERS instructors are executives and leaders with deep business experience. Figliuolo founded thoughtLEADERS because he believes practitioners make the best instructors and because he has a passion for people development and organizational improvement. thoughtLEADERS is based in Columbus, Ohio and serves clients around the world.

About One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership
In a world overloaded with books on leadership theory and “how to” guides, One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership stands out for its simplicity, practicality and applicability. As author Mike Figliuolo puts it:


 * "Imagine explaining your leadership philosophy on one piece of paper – a simple 8.5” x 11” summation of all you are and all you want to be as a leader. How powerful would it be to have a discussion about that single page with the members of your team? But that’s impossible. Or, is it?

One Piece of Paper teaches decisive, effective leadership by taking a holistic approach to defining one's personal leadership philosophy. Based on leadership expert Figliuolo's popular "Leadership Maxims" training course, this book provides models and tools for becoming a well-rounded leader.

Via a series of simple questions, readers create a living document that communicates their values, passions, goals and standards, which maximizes their leadership potential.

Key Highlights:
 * Outlines a clear approach for identifying a concise and meaningful set of personal leadership maxims by which leaders can live their lives
 * Explains and applies four basic aspects of leadership: leading yourself, leading the thinking, leading your people, and leading a balanced life
 * Generates a foundational document that serves as a touchstone for leaders and their teams

One Piece of Paper, published by Jossey-Bass, is available to the public on October 18, 2011.

Education
In 1993, Figliuolo graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was an honor graduate and a Distinguished Cadet. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army. He spent five years as an armor officer in a variety of roles including Platoon Leader, Executive Officer, Personnel Officer and ROTC Instructor at Duke University.

Experience
After leaving the United States Army, Figliuolo joined McKinsey & Company as a management consultant. He served clients in multiple industries including banking, retail, healthcare, chemicals, and technology on a variety of issues (strategy, mergers & acquisitions, cost reductions, growth and business building). He also published many of his findings in professional development documents proprietary to McKinsey as well as publishing an article in The McKinsey Quarterly.

Figliuolo next worked at Capital One Financial as Group Manager of Strategy & Analysis and as Director of Specialty Collections where was responsible for ~$1B in collections, a $125MM budget and the performance of 150 employees.

Figliuolo’s most recent roles were Vice President, Quality Improvement, Customer Service, Business Development & Service Support for Scotts LawnService where he was responsible for acquisitions, division strategy, technology infrastructure, customer service, and franchise operations. Previously, he was Vice President, Strategic Planning at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (SMG) where he was responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company by working directly with the executive team (CEO, CFO, Division Presidents) to assess where to take the business long-term and then identifying opportunities to achieve corporate goals.

Awards/Accolades
Figliuolo was named the Columbus, Ohio Small Business Leader of the Year for 2010 by the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and Columbus Business First.

Member of

 * Columbus Chamber of Commerce (http://www.columbus.org)