Mike Panowyk - U.S.A.

Areas of Expertise
Mike Panowyk is a Consulting Partner with The RBL Group, with expertise in strategy development, organization design & alignment, and leadership development practices, tools and programs. Mike offers a proven track record as business leader, strategic architect, and change agent behind initiatives that transform organizational performance.  He brings a strategic perspective to all 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. 

Background
Mike has had profit and loss accountability in the chemical, specialty chemicals, and plastics industries with Eastman Chemical and Hoechst Celanese Corp. As a line manager he has successfully launched new business start ups, integrated multiple business units across Canada, the USA, and Mexico to leverage the NAFTA trade region and managed both growth and mature businesses. He has worked with numerous clients, including Kellogg, Rockwell Automation, Grainger, Texas Health Resources, Arcelor Mittal, Dofasco, Merck, BP, American Signature Furniture, Koch Industries, Citigroup, Metlife, UBS, and IBM.

He prefers to work on assignments that require 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 a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from University of Toronto and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.