Michael Schreiber is an actor turned business strategy consultant. He helps small business owners align who they are and what they love with how they make money so that they can enjoy and prosper in their professional lives without having to manage multiple personalities.
Having worked extensively as an acting coach and director, Michael helps his clients communicate their stories stunningly, strategically, and with an eye on sales. Today, he is a sought after gun-for-hire, contracting with some of the most successful coaches, speakers, and consultants in the industry, in addition to serving his own clients.
Michael is also the host of Clearing the Path, a podcast produced in partnership with the Shantigar Foundation for Theater, Contemplation, and the Healing Power of Nature. Clearing the Path explores the means and methods that have helped others to get out of their own way so that they can perform clear-sighted and successful artistic and social actions.
Why me? I’m a former actor/acting teacher that understands vocal variety: volume, pitch, and pace. I come in with energy, enthusiasm, passion and humor, and I’m technically equipped to sound professional, too. I’m sensitive to having a conversation vs. just monolog-ing, though I do enjoy exploring the depth of an energized and creative emergence…at the very least, we won’t have a technically boring session 🙂
I’m happy to talk business, but by no means your average business person. I’ve valued freedom and flexibiilty over financial gain my entire adult life, creativity and contribution over consistent income. I’m not saying I’ve always been right to do so…
As an artist, I often talk about business topics in ways that turn the prism slightly from how things are often discussed, illuminating the same principle from a different perspective.
I am happy to let you steer me towards giving the most value to your audience. I enjoy being surprised by what I express when I’m asked questions. It’s why I love coaching so much: even though I am often helping people with similar problems, it’s never the same conversation twice.
Grateful for your consideration, thank you!
My story: after being targeted by a con man, I eventually filed bankruptcy weeks before the death of my father and thus intermingling the two legal cases. Successfully overcoming this adversity led me to coaching, and to deep insights on why people make investments that aren’t a tailored fit to their needs.
Standard Questions:
–Having worked in the coaching industry for much of the last 12 years, you’ve seen inside many different successful businesses from many different perspectives. Based on that experience, what advice would you give to the consumer? To someone who is considering attending a premium event, or hiring a coach?
–You say that the most challenging business one can choose is being an actor. Why is that? What can we learn from the challenges the actor faces?
–Besides learning from the business of acting, is there anything business owners can learn from the craft of acting?
–When you talk about depth in your work, coming from a deeper place…what does that mean to you? From where, exactly, are you talking about? What benefit does that have to [my audience]?
Additional questions for each topic on my media sheet available upon request.
1. http://thecomingoutlounge.com/episode-090-ready-set-action-the-act-of-closet-dwelling-and-coming-out-michael-schreiber/
2. https://www.pageantrymagazine.com/PodCasts/2013/b13/PagPodCast-MichaelSchreiber.html
2b: part of the interview was featured in the print edition of their magazine, on my site here: http://michaelschreiber.com/pageantry-interview
3. VIDEO of me on the Ellen Degeneres show…2005, but still fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5qk5ll37fI&feature=youtu.be
I have a Zoom H5 that I can use as an audio interface that allows me to adjust my levels, and to connect either to my mobile phone or (more commonly) to my computer for use on any platform.
Also, I have a Shure directional microphone that I prefer to the Zoom H5 stereo mics, but both are options.
I create my own schedule. As a freelance coach and consultant, I am able to rearrange most of my regular appointments, especially if I have some advance notice.
