Organizations and Teams

Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Principal of Box of Crayons, a company that works with organizations and teams around the world to help them do less Good Work and more Great Work.

Their clients range from AstraZeneca to Xerox and are based in North America, Europe and Australia. They have particular expertise with blue chip organizations in the professional service, pharmaceutical and consumer goods market sectors. Box of Crayons uses the technologies of coaching, team effectiveness, organizational change and innovation to help clients meet their goals and do Great Work.

Canadian Coach of the Year

Michael was the 2006 Canadian Coach of the Year. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and holds a Masters of Philosophy from Oxford, and law and arts degrees with highest honors from the Australian National University.

He created Get Unstuck & Get Going on the stuff that matters, a multi-award-winning coaching program and tool that's being used in organizations around the world. Leading management thinker Peter Block says it has "a quiet political message in it that coaching is available to all of us and is not a profession but a way of being with each other."

He also created The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun a short internet movie that's been seen by well over half a million people in at least 150 countries around the world.

Popular speaker at business and coaching conferences

Michael is a popular speaker at business and coaching conferences. He has been a speaker at the last three International Coaching Federation conferences, and in the last twelve months has spoken to audiences in Mumbai, Montreal, Melbourne and Minneapolis (just to focus on the Ms).



He is a member of the Innovation Igniter Faculty, a program established to help organizations introduce and sustain innovation as a core competency.