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My name is Michael R. Sleeter. I am fortunate to live in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment (but let’s talk about the politics later).
My Background.
My formal education includes a BBA in Management from New Mexico State University and a MBA in Human Resource Management from the University of New Mexico. Following the advice of Mark Twain, I have worked tirelessly ‘never to let my education get in the way of my learning’.
My work experience reflects the relative wild enthusiastic abandon with which I have ‘followed my heart and gut’ through a great many incredible experiences. I am grateful for them all:
- service station attendant when there actually were service stations
- grease-splattered chicken fryer after Jimmy Carter's brilliant energy policies cost me my first job
- retail manager in a home improvement chain from which I learned to repair just about everything
- I served with pride as a Landman with Atlantic Richfield Exploration Co., during that brief shining moment in time where we had a national energy policy that allowed us to 'drill baby drill'!
- Spent time as a a struggling songwriter with my brother and co-wrote memorable classics such as "Stay", now entombed along with numerous other unheralded and unappreciated works of creative un-genius; sure to be lost in the annals of time
- toiled in the meaningless abyss of a weapons lab recruiting new fellow technician toilers, and then later learning to cipher 'spaghetti computer code' (you've seen the pictures of an elephant put together by blind men, right). Nonetheless, a gratifying episode as I learned firsthand what NOT to do with my life
- Professed in a professorial manner to graduate students at the University of Webster on topics ranging from computering to organizational developing
- Ran my own computer consulting business (into the ground)
- Ran my own first business consulting company (out of gas), by ignoring the tentants of Communal Entrepreneurship™
- Settled on a long career financially advising a small but loyal (for whom I am ever-grateful) group of clients/friends over 10 years with Morgan Stanley and 6 years as president of my own successful (finally!) business
- Creator of several websites for myself and others, mastering along the way new technologies such as social marketing and ever thankful to Mr. Twain I am still 'learning'
- Writer/publisher; I even once had an article entitled "humor in the workplace" published in Working Woman magazine
.... and now, embarked upon another grand adventure spreading the 'gospel' of Communal Entrepreneurship™ through books, small business consulting, hand-held streetsigns
.... and on a PASSIONATE MISSION to spread the value of becoming a small business owner and solving this nagging unemployment CRISIS, one Communal Entrepreneurship™ at a time.
My Interests are as varied as my meandering work history. Fly-fishing, sustainable gardening, hiking, (I'll never be able to keep up with my fiancee, but its not so bad watching her from behind), motorcycling, yoga-ing, dog-lover, committed and loyal family guy and dad to the best daughter imaginable, endlessly telling others what I think as if it matters, brainwave entrainment (WHAT?), making weird 'water drop' noises with my mouth, anything I can do which encourages people to realize their own incredible power to self-heal and, and, and....
---- I hope you will contact me, converse with me about my ideas, and even put me to work helping you make your own dreams come true, or maybe we'll just grab a cold one at my favorite micro-brewery (and there are so many AWESOME ONES in Albuquerque).
------------ Namaste y'all
Michael
email me at mrsleeter@gmail.com
