Michael W. Phelan has a PhD in cultural anthropology coupled with management experience at a Fortune 500 corporation. He has coached business executives in developing their personality strengths and in developing culturally relevant presentations for China and Japan.
Michael did his Ph.D. fieldwork and dissertation on relationships between business-to-business buyers and sellers in Taiwan and Japan.
He has more than ten years experience in human relations and communications for organizations, including the Foreign Ministry of Japan and Oracle USA, Inc. He taught Economic Anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo and workshops on Japanese business culture to MBA candidates and undergraduate students at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Certifications and Qualifications
- Certified Talent Consultant with specialty training in the Use of Personality Assessments in the Coaching of High Potentials & Executives
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- 16 Primary
Factors (16PF)
- Strong
Interest Inventory
- FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior)
- Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)
- California Psychological Inventory (CPI 260)
Specializations
- Organizational Culture
- Cultures of China & Japan
- Personality assessments
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Publications
- "Organizational
Culture and Change," Change Management, London: Henry Stewart
Publications. CD-ROM. In press.
- "Cultural Revitalization Movements in Organization Change Management," Journal of Change Management, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2005.
- "The Shadow
in the US-Japan Relationship," Asia Pacific Economic Review,
autumn 1992.
Education
- PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Rutgers University
- MA, Sociology, Northeastern University
- BA, Sociology, University of Massachusetts
Professional Affiliations
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- BayCHI, Bay Area Computer Human Interaction chapter of Association for Computing Machinery