CCL Faculty Bio
Meet some of the faculty who are behind the design and delivery of the programs.
Mike Kossler
Faculty Director, Design & Delivery
CCL - Asia Pacific
Experience & Current Role
Michael E. Kossler (Mike) is the Faculty Director, Design & Delivery for CCL’s APAC Region and is based in Singapore. In this role, he is responsible for the overall management of CCL’s Open Enrollment and Custom Programs in the region.
Mike joined the Center for Creative leadership in 1996. Prior to assuming his current role, he was a Senior Enterprise Associate based in Greensboro, NC. In that capacity, he worked with global clients to assess their organization’s leadership development needs and then design and implement custom solutions. Mike has also been the Manager–Custom Solutions for CCL’s European operations and was based in Brussels, Belgium for three years. He was also the Project Manager for CCL’s research on Geographically Dispersed Teams (GDT).
With a rich blend of business experience and international consulting skills, Mike is able to create custom solutions that accent the practical aspects of development and learning. Not just theory. He has worked with a variety of international organizations including AMD, Alstom, Citigroup, FLS Industries, Novartis, Sara Lee, Siemens and Xerox. He frequently works with executive level teams on issues of organization effectiveness, change management and business strategy development. Mike’s areas of personal expertise are in the fields of individual and team development.
Prior to joining CCL, Mike was manager of organization and development for GTE (now part of Verizon), where he was instrumental in the introduction of self-directed work teams and regularly worked with senior executives on issues of leadership transition.
He has also operated his own consulting practice, which focused on creating high-employee involvement organizations and has held a part-time faculty position in the School of Supervision at Purdue University.
Educational Background
Mike holds an M.A in Communication from the University of Akron and an M.M in Organization Development from Aquinas College. He has also completed postgraduate work at both the Indianapolis Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.
