About Mike Cornell

Prior to starting Incline Innovation, Mike Cornell was a founding partner of Strategos, a global strategy and innovation services firm led by Gary Hamel. From 1995 to 2002 Mike led a wide range of projects for clients including Applied Materials, Intuit Software, Visio (now a part of Microsoft), Cadence, Ashland Chemicals, SAP America, as well as Celebration Health and El Camino Hospital. Mike was formerly with Gemini Consulting, where he was a principal in the firm's strategy practice. Mike began his consulting career with Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) in 1986.

Mike has over fifteen years of consulting and strategy experience centered on helping companies with issues of strategy, corporate development, business model innovation and business planning. He currently is focusing his work on accelerated insight and strategy development for aggressive growth companies in high technology and health care, with a particular emphasis on working with teams and organizations that seek thoughtful insight quickly on pressing issues and opportunities.

Mike's article, "Going around the Bend: Rethinking the Strategy Development Process in Technology Companies," appeared in Upside magazine. Additionally, he was a contributing consultant for "Proceeding in Daylight: Frontier Practices for Challenging Strategic Assumptions" published by the Corporate Executive Board. Other articles have appeared in Communications Week and on ZDNet.

Mike holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and an undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon.

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