Our Executive Team of Senior and Associate Curators is here to ensure your experience at GeneralLeadership is positive and worthwhile. Please take a moment to learn more about our Team:
Senior Curators
John E. Michel, Co-Founder
Senior Curator and Chief Executive Officer
John is a widely recognized expert in culture, strategy & individual and organizational change. An accomplished unconventional leader and proven status quo buster, he has successfully led several multi-billion dollar transformation efforts and his award-winning work has been featured in a wide variety of articles and journals, including the Harvard Business Review. In addition to serving our nation as an active duty General Officer in the United States Air Force, John enjoys helping people learn to walk differently in the world so they can become the best version of themselves possible. He is blessed to be married to the most patient person on the planet and together, they have two amazing sons. You are encouraged to learn more about John at his website, www.MediocreMe.com
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– Military Biography
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Matthew T. Fritz, Co-Founder
Senior Curator and Chief Operating Officer
Matt is a leader and life-long student of emotional intelligence, strategy & individual and organizational change. A successful senior-acquisition program/project manager and flight test director with documented success in the areas of test and evaluation, assessment, technology development and flight operations, he has specialized experience in cost, schedule and performance management of program related issues and agendas.
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George Fritz
Senior Curator and Chief Technology Officer
George is the founder and owner of Arthur Creative Marketing, and a successful entrepreneur. With over 40-years of business management and development experience, George provides a customer-based, business backed focus to entrepreneurs. George has created over thirty profitable brick-and-mortar and on-line ventures. With a broad base in accounting, sales, and marketing, with strong emphasis on developing people skills in production management, He brings real world organizational, sales and marketing responsibility and success to the table.
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Catie Hargrove
Senior Curator and Chief Creative Officer
With a passion for helping leaders to overcome organizational and employee engagement challenges, she leads executives and their teams in for-profit, nonprofit and government organizations to improve both their personal and organizational effectiveness.
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Douglas VanWiggeren
Senior Curator and Chief Communications Officer
Doug has almost 40 years of experience successfully leading military organizations, managing commercial aerospace and automotive logistics operations, and providing consultative services to government organizations. He appreciates well-constructed prose and is enthusiastic about communicating written ideas in better, more positive ways.
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J. Garth Sanginiti
Senior Curator and Chief Knowledge Officer
Mr. Sanginiti is the Associate Curator and Lead Curriculum Development for GeneralLeadership.com. Known for his interpersonal and team building skills, Garth has successfully tackled challenging change and leadership issues throughout his 21 years of Civil Service.
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Chris R. Stricklin
Senior Curator and Chief Growth Officer
Chris is a leader, mentor and coach in integrating the fields of negotiations, leadership skills, public relations, public speaking and complex organizational change. A former US Air Force Thunderbirt, he provides a unique synthesis of speaking, leading, management, negotiations and continuous improvement. Read More…
Associate Curators
Jake Simon, Associate Curator and Chief Artistic Officer
Mr. Simon is an experienced graphic designer with a demonstrated expertise in presentation graphics. A passion for storytelling combined with demonstrated aptitudes in the designer’s toolbox results in optimized messaging that resonates with targeted audiences.
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Angela Maiers, Associate Curator and Chief Academic Officer
Angela is the founder and President of Maiers Education Services, a consulting firm headquartered in Clive, Iowa. Her company provides just-in-time consultation services to schools, organizations, and individuals seeking to use technology and social media to leverage human capital and production goals.
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Jean Michel, Associate Curator and Chief Learning Officer
Mr. Michel was appointed as the Air Combat Command’s Community Support Executive Advisor, Directorate of Manpower, Personnel and Services, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley AFB VA, on 1 Oct 12 following a brief assignment as Chief of the Services Division, overseeing the orderly transition of MAJCOM services responsibilities to AFPC as a part of the Services Centralization initiative.
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Jay Steven Levin, Associate Curator and Chief Analytics Officer
Jay has over 30 years of international executive management, consulting and performance coaching experience. He has worked worldwide with well over 10,000 people to accelerate work performance and career advancement. Read More…
Holly Michel, Associate Curator and Chief Philanthropy Officer
Giving and serving are at the heart of Holly’s passion, which is why we are so very excited to have her leading our philanthropy efforts. With a lifetime of experience serving on the frontlines of various charitable causes she is committed to supporting the leading edge of positive societal change—one organization at a time.
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Kimberly Huth, Associate Curator and Community Relations Officer
A retired Air Force Senior Enlisted member with 24 years of experience leading military and civilian personnel from various nations during high-risk situations around the globe, Kimberly is a true servant leader. She is well known for her interpersonal skills, ability to communicate and her team-building talents have been commended by some of today’s top military leaders. Read More…
Interns
Zach Stricklin is a Sophomore at Cornell University. He is majoring in Industrial and Labor Relations with aspirations of Law School. Read more…
Taylor Fritz is a Junior at V. Sue Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho, NM. She aspires to attend a Service Academy and pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering. Read more…
Nikolas Sanginiti is a Senior at Maryville University in St. Louis majoring in Business Administration. An emotionally intelligent leader, Nik has taken on leadership roles and demonstrated tremendous initiative throughout his college career motivating his peers to achieve their goals and objectives. Read more…
