Michael Langer

Michael Langer’s passion is in creating deep, sustainable change with senior leaders on individual, team, and organizational levels. He uses evidence-based neuroscience applied to interpersonal conflict, communication, and large-scale culture change.

For over 20 years, he has coached hundreds of senior executives in Fortune Global 500 firms, VC-backed startup founders/CEOs, and their leadership teams to adopt a growth-mindset and create a feedback-rich learning culture. Clients span the US, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe across a wide range of sectors—from banking and high-tech to aerospace and entertainment.

Michael’s greatest thrill is helping clients connect with their own worldview and those of others—their beliefs, feelings, and values. He helps them understand their triggers and truths, empowering them to make decisions with gut-level conviction. He facilitates clients and teams in moving from ‘proving conversations’ to ‘learning conversations.’ Clients consistently report a marked increase in clarity, satisfaction, and buy-in, in both their professional and personal lives.

His time-tested approach focuses on mindfulness, self-enquiry, and empathy to unpack clients’ self-limiting mindsets and behaviors, building out more life-affirming habits. Through his warm, direct style, he partners with clients to unlock core, driving needs and make them explicit, discussible, and actionable.

Areas of specialization include:

  • Coaching and Developing Others

  • Conflict & Communication

  • Cross-cultural Strategy and Communications

  • The Neuroscience of Emotional Intelligence

  • Leadership Team Alignment

  • Negotiations

  • Role Transitions

For over two decades, Michael has been helping US, European, and Asian organizations surface belief, behavior, and value differences, encouraging clients to adopt a “third way” to work across cultural divides. Clients report an increased ability to ‘code switch’ conflict and communication styles, leading to strengthened relationships and better business outcomes. For eight years, he lived and worked in Mainland China and was named a “Consultant of National Excellence” at the Great Hall of the People by the Chinese Government.

Michael holds the following certifications, which inform his practice: Certified Executive Coach—NeuroLeadership Institute; Certified Feedback Specialist, Center for Creative Leadership; Cultural Orientations Indicator; DiSC; FIRO-B; Hogan; Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; Tilt 365; TKI. He holds a BA in English Literature from Columbia University and an MA in Adult Learning from Hunter College.

When not coaching or facilitating, you can find Michael rambling along the road less traveled, making mixed-media art, doing improv, reading fiction, and hiking with his Yellow Lab, Jasper.