Previous Experience

Extensive experience in Consulting, Counseling, Business, and Teaching. Unifying threads that run through these activities are strong interests and well developed expertise in:

• effective communication—connection, conceptual clarity, emphasis, metaphor
• wellness, emotional and spiritual—what makes individuals functional and happy
• systems—particularly, how human and electronic systems affect success in business
• best methods—in these areas, exploring, designing, articulating them in writing

Some Details

Consulting (7 years)

Owner, Project Manager, Author...............................................................................1980–1986
Michael Reddy PhD Consulting New York City
Systems Analysis, Rapid Applications Development, Creation of IT departments and data centers,
Articles, Papers. Some clients—NYC Board of Education, Couristan Carpets, Money Magazine

Senior Project and Relationship Manager, Author.....................................................2007–2008
Soliant Consulting Philadelphia
Management Consulting, Systems Analysis, Custom Software Development, Technical Papers.
Helped set up third regional office in Philadelphia, published several technical papers

Counseling, Healing (17 years)

Founder, Principle Teacher, Author...........................................................................1989–1994
The Lower Hudson Bear Tribe New York City
Native American Spirituality and Healing Techniques (Circles, Sweat Lodges, Vision Quests,
Workshops, Articles). I was trained by Sun Bear and other native elders between 1986 and 1994).
Ran Sun Bear’s NYC group for 5 yrs.

Founder, Principle Teacher, Author...........................................................................1995–2007
Walk In Balance Philadelphia
Native American Spirituality and Healing (Circles, Sweat Lodges, Vision Quests, Workshops, Articles)

Business (21 years)

Owner, Designer, Project Manager...........................................................................1987–1997
Exceptional Woodwork NYC, Philadelphia
Marine, Residential, and Commercial woodworking projects. This business formed a grounded,
flexible support system for me while I was apprenticed to native teachers, and later running the
Lower Hudson Bear Tribe

Director of Organizational Development.................................................................1997–2002
Chief Technical Officer.............................................................................................2003–2008
Music Together LLC Princeton
Design, Implementation, and Management of Human and Electronic Systems that helped this
early childhood Music Education company to grow from 6 employees to 60. A very profitable
business that did good in the world

Teaching, Research (6 years)

Assistant Professor....................................................................................................1972–1978
Columbia University New York City
Joint Appointment in Linguistics and English. Taught graduate and undergraduate semantics, humanities, writing—trained expository writing staff. Original Research on the role of Underlying Metaphors in human language. Google “conduit metaphor” to see an extraordinary number of references to my work

Education and Trainings

PhD, Cognitive Linguistics of English ..................................................... University of Chicago
BS, Physics and Philosophy ............................................................... University of Santa Clara
Sales and Management Communication................................ Sandler Institute President’s Club
Core Energy Coaching........................... Institute for Professional Exellence in Coaching (iPEC)
Energy Leadership ................................ Institute for Professional Exellence in Coaching (iPEC)
Family Constellation Work ............................ The Hellinger Institute of Western Pennsylvania
“Book Yourself Solid” Marketing Trainer............................ Trained Personally by Michael Port

Selected Recent Publications
(a complete list from all areas would have 70–80 citations)

Holistic Health/Spirituality

Inviting Intuition, Yoga Living Magazine, May/June, 2009 (how to cultivate intuition for creative projects)

When Natural’s Not Normal, Yoga Living Magazine, July/August, 2009 (common practices are not always “natural” in the larger environmental sense)

Coach Thyself—Healthcare Overstress, Yoga Living Magazine, September/October, 2009 (a look at the stress caused by ever-shifting “expert” pronouncements about health)

Family Constellations and Coaching—Recognizing and Reframing Transpersonal Gremlins, iPEC National Teleclass and White Paper, August 2009 [obtain white paper from me, or hear teleclass by clicking above] (a concise introduction to Family Constellation Work and its application to coaching)

Coach Thyself—The Mind in Meditation, Yoga Living Magazine, November/December, 2009 (the Dalai Lama exemplifies an aspect of how mind works in meditation)

Living with Technology

http://www.makecybersense.org/ a focused collection of recently published articles (from Yoga Living Magazine) on how to stay healthy in a broad sense when half or more of your life is in cyberspace, and less and less involves your body and the people in your local “real” space.

Business/Technical

Blending Agile and Waterfall in Filemaker Development Projects, FileMaker Advisor Magazine, November/December, 2008 (http://my.advisor.com/doc/19498 on web).

In-house and Consulting Developers Collaborate to Produce Better Software, Filemaker Advisor Magazine, March/April 2008 (http://my.advisor.com/doc/19419 on web).