Michael is a recovering addict, acclaimed speaker, Inc. 500 entrepreneur, award-winning, three-time CEO, and author of Great Leaders Live Like Drug Addicts: How to Lead Like Your Life Depends on It. Michael’s TEDx Nashville Talk, “Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do,” provides insight into his twenty-year journey from addiction to successful entrepreneurship. It is the number one talk in the history of TEDx Nashville, with over 3 million views from people in 25+ countries. In 2010, Michael left a Fortune 50 company at the height of the recession to cofound and lead InQuicker, a healthcare SaaS company that allowed patients to self-schedule appointments online. Under his leadership, the organization grew to 20,000 percent revenue growth, landing InQuicker on the Inc. 500 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies. Additionally, the organization was named one of the “Best Places to Work” four times and recognized as Healthcare Company of the Year. After selling InQuicker to a publicly-traded company in 2015, Michael served three years as the CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, a 501c3 that helps over 2,000 entrepreneurs start or grow a business yearly. His accomplishments include being named a Most Admired CEO, Top 40 Under 40, Nashville Chamber of Commerce Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year, and Vistage Speaker of the Year. Today, as the CEO of Addictive Leadership, Michael and his team are on a mission to revolutionize the rules of leadership by teaching hundreds of organizations as big as Google, Dell, and the U.S. Army to small and mid-sized businesses as well as nonprofits, government agencies, and treatment centers, how how to identify their leadership addictions, reclaim 500 hours a year and more effectively lead themselves.