As President, Michael promotes Centricity’s management consulting services, develops innovative strategic marketing solutions, manages client and consultant transformation teams, and ensures client satisfaction with Centricity’s consulting engagements.
His consulting effectiveness is enhanced by his job experiences before entering consulting. He designed, built, tested, and performed consumer product clinics on many future Volvo car prototypes. His intuitive understanding of consumers resulted in responsibility for long range product planning, market strategy, and product development contributing to Volvo’s positioning on safety and subsequent rapid sales volume growth.
As a 30-year-old he was hired as Vice President of Operations of a Division of The Linde Group before founding Centricity, Inc. His practicable business experience demonstrates that he is not “a consultant who asks you for your watch to tell you the time,” but one who delivers incremental business value significantly greater that the investment in his firm’s services.
Michael received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He graduated at the top of his class from San Francisco State University with a Master of Science Business Administration Degree specializing in strategic marketing management.
He is a Life Time Member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Society, an International Business Honor Society. He is a Certified Management Consultant® as designated by the Institute of Management Consultants USA. The CMC® Mark of Excellence is the preeminent designation earned in the management consulting profession and is awarded to a limited number of select consultants who have met global, publicly recognized standards for competence, professional conduct, ethics, and client results. Less than 2% of all consultants are CMCs®. He is certified by the Product Development Management Association as a New Products Development Professional. And he is certified by the American Marketing Association as a Certified Digital Marketing Professional.
Michael views consulting as a helping profession and values competence, integrity, empathy, and building long-term professional and personal relationships. He and his team at Centricity celebrate working effectively with every client team member and helping clients save time and money while reaching their goals. He knows that clients today must remain lean and agile while achieving their objectives, often without sufficient staff expertise.
Michael and his team at Centricity stand ready to add the right level of strategy and marketing expertise to your team as your “partners in performance improvement.” Centricity can help you make your goals a reality. Let’s start by discussing your needs. Please call Michael toll free at (844) 830-6040 or email him at michaelrhills@ctrsmg.com.
