About Donald

Donald McMichael

My name is Don­ald McMichael, and I have never been afraid of push­ing myself. In fact, I thrive on it. Since my first year at Duke University’s Busi­ness School, I’ve been work­ing on projects that require me to stretch my think­ing beyond con­ven­tion. It’s these critical-thinking and cre­ative problem-solving skills that I love and in turn have allow me to help orga­ni­za­tions ful­fill their potential.

With a suc­cess­ful nine­teen year track record (which includes a seven-year career at Show­time Net­works as a Vice Pres­i­dent and Direc­tor in cor­po­rate devel­op­ment roles) my true tal­ents lie in devel­op­ing neat, eas­ily under­stood play­books that allow one to reach a desired objec­tive in a com­plex, uncer­tain envi­ron­ment. Cut­ting across both the finance and strat­egy func­tions, I’ve pro­duced over $500 mil­lion of strate­gic ini­tia­tive both inside and out­side of For­tune 500 com­pa­nies such as AlliedSig­nal and Viacom.

Hav­ing com­pleted over 10 Cen­turies (100 mile bicy­cle ride) I have a proven track record of accom­plish­ing stretch goals. The rea­son I can main­tain a can-do atti­tude in every aspect of my life is that I know that focus­ing on the right thing with the right assets pays off.

For the Tweeple If you found me (and this page) from my Twit­ter pro­file, there’s a few things you might want to know about me:

  • I’m on Twit­ter to meet inter­est­ing peo­ple, have intel­li­gent con­ver­sa­tions, and learn new things.
  • My pro­fes­sional pas­sions are around Busi­ness Model Inno­va­tion, Strate­gic Part­ner­ship Devel­op­ment, and the inter­sec­tion of Cre­ative, Process and Design Think­ing (Hybrid Think­ing); in par­tic­u­lar how it applies to the evolv­ing Media and Enter­tain­ment space.
  • If you help me achieve these goals, I’ll fol­low you back.

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