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Mike Panowyk

RBL Principal

Michael Panowyk has a proven track record as a general manager and organization design consultant behind initiatives that transform organizational performance.  

He brings a strategic perspective to organization effectiveness initiatives by ensuring that the scope, approach, and expected outcomes are clearly aligned to the business goals and strategic requirements of the client organization.  The scope of his work includes strategy development, organization, and process design and metrics.

Mike has 30 years of experience in consulting and business leadership.  His consulting roles span that of lead consultant, engagement manager, and contributing to intellectual property development. Mike has also enjoyed multi-functional, North American management experience in product development, process engineering, sales and marketing, quality management, and general management across a variety of markets.  

Mike has had profit and loss accountability in several industries including the successful launch of a new business start-up, integration of acquisitions, and management of mature, cost-driven SBUs.  He enjoys the challenge of any situation that requires a radical break from the status quo and believes that high-performing organizations develop the capability to repeatedly innovate in the face of change.

 Mike has an MBA majoring in Operations Management from the Schulich Business School, York University, Toronto, and a B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

He currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his three children Sasha, Mykaela, and Coleton.