Michael Leckie

Meet Michael

Michael Leckie is a Senior Advisor at McChrystal Group. He brings over 25 years of leadership and consulting experience to his role in driving learning and transformation in a digital world. Michael has led and advised on transformations and cultural change from startup and private equity through to Fortune 50 companies across a very broad variety of industries, private and public. For the past 20 years, he has focused on the emergence of the increased need for change demanded by our digital world.

Michael’s book The Heart of Transformation: Build the Human Capabilities that Change Organizations for Good is a highly regarded and ground-breaking approach to understanding where change and transformation falls short and how to overcome this persistent problem. Michael spends most of his time partnering, catalyzing, shepherding, and accelerating change working directly with senior leaders and their teams. Michael designs bespoke leadership and learning programs across the globe for organizations that embrace work as learning.

Michael is the former Chief Learning Officer for Digital Transformation at GE where he was responsible for accelerating the transformation of GE to the Digital Industrial leader. He has also held the role of Chief Learning Officer and Global Head of Organization Development for Bloomberg, LP. Previously, Michael spent over a decade at Gartner, Inc., where he most recently held the position of Managing Vice President in Gartner’s Executive Programs business unit. Michael was responsible for managing teams that provided executive coaching, strategic guidance, and research-based advisory services to Gartner’s C-suite clients. Michael also had global responsibility for learning and talent development for the Executive Programs associates.  

Prior to this role, Michael was the global head of human resources for several Gartner business units including Gartner Consulting and The Research Board. Michael has held consulting roles with both Arthur Andersen and boutique firms and internal OD/L&D/HR roles with other global industry-leading firms. He speaks internationally on the art and science of leadership, digital leadership, culture change, influencing and communication skills, and the changing role of the CXO leader in a sociotechnical world.  

Michael earned his Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA and his BA in Psychology from Vanguard University in Southern California.