Michael Forrester

“First of all, you must know that Michael is an extremely high-skilled technical educator and, as such, means that he is an expert in converting complex technical and business matters in a way that can be understood and experimented with by anyone. Additionally, Michael ALWAYS does it constructively: no concept - business or technical - is presented without amazing demonstrations. As he is a real builder, he has been creating unique tools to support amazing presentations (ask him to run a presentation using a video-game control). Now, add to these teaching skills an in-depth technical knowledge and a strong business acúmen. What do you get? You get an incredibly versatile I.T. professional, capable of covering topics ranging from networking and security to end-user computing. Michael is capable of supporting rookie-level technicians as they start their journey to the Cloud, and at the other extreme, highly skilled in guiding C-level executives to the right path when making the most appropriate decisions about thriving in the Cloud. Michael is extremely sincere, customer-obsessed, and ethical. He focuses on results - real results. Once you ask Michael to "strategize" on a topic, whether it is your training in technology, the cloud-strategy for a fortune 500 company, or how to create a culture of collaboration and delivery effectively, he will tell you exactly the path to follow to iterate towards that goal. I recommend you listen to him. If you are a C-level focused on results - or a company looking for one - Michael is the professional that you want to have by your side.”

“Michael Forrester is a great technology leader cum expert technologist cum Agile expert cum DevOps evangelist and the list goes on. I honestly don't know how Michael keeps himself so up to date on such a broad spectrum of things. Unlike many other top IT leaders, Michael is very knowledgeable about many things to a level where he could talk, demo and troubleshoot any aspect of AWS/Azure to anything related to Docker-Kubernetes to Go scripts & again the list of technologies & tools goes on. Michael is a champion in putting together teams, processes, technology and everything else to spearhead technology operations in a velocity that many modern IT organizations would envy. He does it effortlessly since he is a natural leader who can easily rally around people to work for a common goal. He always supports & empowers his teams, care for his people and stand up as a true leader. He has a strong yet very humane personality. His ways are unorthodox & unique (Forrester style), but highly effective, result oriented and practical. The amount of respect he has for his people and vice versa is unbelievable. The amount of passion, positive energy & charisma he can bring to an organization is immeasurable. He is a strong shield who will block & absorb all the business chaos, organizational politics and all the business pressure. If your organization is working with bleeding edge technology, have global cross functional teams, work with Millions of dollars of capex/opex budget - Look no further, his name is Michael Forrester.”