Michael is an internationally acclaimed designer, innovator, educator, sculptor, and founder of The Crucible, the nation’s largest non-profit industrial arts education facility. Determined to take on “impossible challenges,” he has spent a lifetime deconstructing and reinventing transformative approaches to problem solving, ideation, and education. In addition to leading moonshot investigations and pioneering the future of manufacturing at Google X, Michael is a wildly popular speaker and consultant, igniting revolutions in thought, organizational development, and creative empowerment across the globe.