Michael Badali

Who

Born in Toronto, Canada

Graduate of University of Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University and Conestoga College

Traveled to 18 countries and over 35 cities in China

6 years working in China for international companies

1 year managing groups in China from Canada

Management style

Michael inspires shared vision, generates empathy for the customer and builds team spirit and purpose. Michael is an expert at problem solving, able to track down root cause and work together with diverse and distributed team members to bring about a timely resolution to any barriers and communicate the team’s successes to key stake holders. Michael’s enthusiasm is contagious and inspires the team to achieve assigned tasks and work together in building a stronger team contributing to the success of the company.

Values

Visionary Leadership, Purposeful Improvement, Effortless Technology

Goals

Grow himself and others around him into an efficient valuable team always learning and growing and improving in line with the business goals.

Accomplishments

Created software product in response to customer feedback, a ‘Top 10’ download on Sun.com

Established the 1st Red Hat Linux training partnership in China

Grew start-up company to profitability in 1 year by establishing key partnerships and branding

Managed $2,000,000 USD international hardware lab Reduced expenditures by $200,000 USD a year through hardware sharing program

Created new performance management system reducing turnover and increasing morale

Perhaps his greatest accomplishments are the unseen. i.e. – Inspiring others to excellence

Quotes about Michael

“If there is one thing you understand it’s business” – B.C.

“Michael has an easy-to-understand, clear and no-nonsense communication style that clients, suppliers and colleagues can all relate to. When I couldn’t figure out what my client wanted, Michael went in and within minutes figured out exactly what would delight my client…and it worked! Michael has also successfully negotiated some difficult contracts for me, including contracts with companies in different cultures” – J.C.

“How did you find that out? I am really impressed, no one has been able to get that information” – P.C.

“You really mean it when you say: ‘How can I help?’ Most managers are just going through the motions, you really mean it.” – B.L.

“Michael really understands customers” – L.J.

“Michael will never run out of new ideas” – L.S.

“I think the thing you really helped with was the translation – both language and culture. Your ability to go back and forth between cultures cut through a lot of the confusion over the time I was there.” – B.C.

Myers-Briggs Personality Type: ENFP

ENFPs have an unusually broad range of skills and talents. They are good at most things which interest them. Project-oriented, they may go through several different careers during their lifetime. To onlookers, the ENFP may seem directionless and without purpose, but ENFPs are actually quite consistent, in that they have a strong sense of values which they live with throughout their lives. They have excellent interpersonal skills, and are able to inspire and motivate others to be the best that they can be. An ENFP is usually an intense individual, with highly evolved values.

Most ENFPs will exhibit the following strengths:

• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
• Very perceptive about people’s thought and motives
• Motivational, inspirational; bring out the best in others
• Warmly affectionate and affirming
• Fun to be with – lively sense of humor, dramatic, energetic, optimistic
• Strive for “win-win” situations
• Loyal and dedicated
• Natural leaders, but do not like to control people
• Can work logically and rationally – use their intuition to understand the goal and work backwards towards it
• Able to grasp difficult concepts and theories

Condensed from: http://www.personalitypage.com/

Language

English – Native

Chinese – Approaching Fluent

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