As Managing Director of the North American Space Doctors office, Michael leads the team in connecting social science expertise to design to address clients’ knotty challenges in strategic areas spanning growth, innovation, positioning, portfolio, design, and communications.

He specializes in making sense of hard puzzles that drive strategy, helping clients extract structure from ambiguity so they know what to ask, how to get the answers, and what to do next.

With expertise in cognitive and applied anthropology as well as industrial design, Michael leverages critical thinking, multi-method research, social science, and collaboration to help clients action cultural insight.

In addition to his role at Space Doctors, Michael is an Executive Board Member of the Society for Anthropological Sciences where he mentors junior anthropologists, advocates for scientific perspectives in anthropology, and advances the theoretical and practical applications of cognitive anthropology.