SocraticExperience.com, a secondary school for parents seeking a warm, motivating, high performance virtual educational experience for their children, specializing in creative, intellectual, and entrepreneurial students whose needs are not being met by conventional schools.

Founder of the Academy of Thought and Industry, an innovative Montessori-aligned high school with campuses in SF, NYC, Austin, and St. Louis.  They are managed by Higher Ground Education, the leading Montessori network in the U.S.

Twenty-eight years creating innovative K-12 programs and schools, based on Montessori, Socratic, and entrepreneurial principles, including an inner city school at which minority females gained four years of critical thinking skills in four months (on a test that correlates with SAT and IQ); a Montessori middle school in Palo Alto where the average 8th grade SAT for students was higher than the average private school senior; a school for gifted children where middle schoolers passed AP science courses; MVHS, a rural New Mexican school ranked the 36th best public high school in the U.S.; and KoSchool in Austin.  My book, The Habit of Thought:  From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice summarizes my approach.  All of my schools are based on the cultivation of respectful, civil, authentic intellectual dialogue.

This led to FLOW, a non-profit devoted to promoting entrepreneurial solutions to world problems, co-founded with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market.  My second book, Be the Solution:  How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems, co-authored with Mackey, Mohammad Yunus, Hernando de Soto, and others summarizes our approach.

Because global poverty is the biggest of all problems, FLOW led me to focus on bringing better law and governance to the global poor.  As a consequence, I began working to create Special Development Regions and e-government in  Honduras, Senegal, and other regions around the world.

I'm passionate about entrepreneurial solutions to world problems, with personal interest and experience in education and law/governance.  I write on these issues at Medium.

Michael Strong

General Motors

Internal Financial Auditor - Global Supplier Recovery - Global Business Solutions

Financial Analyst - Global Supplier Recovery Auditor

FBH Architectural Security

Cost Estimator

- Achieved 100% launch expectations by employing proactive supplier management and relationship building.
- Timely execution of hundreds of initial order RFQs, sending RFQ’s, reviewing returned quotes to ensure pricing adhered to GM T/C’s by performing BOM and PKG analysis for engines, transmissions, and their components.
- Identified and initiated over $2.5 million cost savings opportunities as the IO buyer by consistently presenting data and escalating until implementation.
- Cross functional problem resolution – with engineering, supply chain, supplier quality, etc.
- Ensured customer satisfaction by effectively managing workload in a manner that ensured part availability, especially in cases of SPAC and backorder.
- From September 2016 - April 2017 - took a short leave to complete my BBA degree.

Launch I/O Buyer - Propulsion

- Took on additional opportunity as service buyer for the exterior lighting office.
- Managed the service buyer - exterior lighting office for Q4 2017 while a buyer was on leave.
- Facilitated large international business transfer, working cross-functionally with the supplier, risk analysts, engineering, supplier quality, tooling analyst, finance, and logistics teams.
- Mitigated 65% of requested price increase by analyzing contract data and communicating findings during negotiations.

Service Buyer – Exterior Lighting

McLaren Health Care

Supply Chain Assistant

I have a passion for thinking outside of the box to identify and execute cost savings opportunities that seem impossible. My experience in automotive purchasing gives me a unique perspective to see complex data as more than just numbers on paper. 

I am a Financial Auditor that specializes in in root-cause analysis and end-to-end process improvements to mitigate risk for global purchasing contracts. I proactively identify supplier over-payments, complex errors, and mutually beneficial cost savings opportunities for global purchasing.

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