Experts & Advisors
Michael Martin
Senior Managing Director

Michael advises organizations on how to achieve their objectives through the lens of people and culture. He specializes in talent strategy, organizational design and effectiveness, change management, and human resources (HR) function transformation, including operating model, process, and technology optimization.
Experience
Michael’s career covers more than 20 years of working with clients across all major sectors, including manufacturing, retail, financial services, healthcare, and professional services. His experience also includes serving as the chief people officer for Ankura in parallel with his client work. Michael has also served in practice leader roles at leading human capital consultancies and has led multiple complex HR and human capital consulting initiatives.
Michael’s professional experience includes:
- Aligning talent and HR strategies with business objectives for large and mid-sized organizations to ensure profitable growth and return on investment in people programs.
- Redesigning and implementing global HR operating models for numerous domestic and multinational organizations across industries.
- Successfully managing change resulting from complex organizational transformations.
- Leading research focused on global trends in talent and HR practices.
- In addition to his consulting and corporate HR roles, Michael has been a frequent speaker on a broad range of HR topics in various commercial and higher education forums.
- Education
- MA, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, New York University
- BA, Psychology, The George Washington University