Michael Feiner, Executive Consultant with The Advisory Alliance, brings over 30 years of experience as a leadership and talent management expert. The former Chief People Officer of Pepsi-Cola Company, he is internationally recognized for his intellectual integrity, broad-gauge leadership skills and expertise on people and organizational issues. His principal focus is working with and advising CEOs on how to build the talent of their organizations and upgrade the quality of their companies’ leadership.

Michael is also Professor of Management at Columbia Graduate School of Business where the course he created, High Performance Leadership, is consistently ranked by students as one of the school’s best courses. He is also winner of the Singhvi Prize, awarded to the business school’s “Best Teacher” by the graduating class. He is considered by students in both Columbia’s M.B.A. and Executive Programs, as well as by audiences at conferences, to be a passionate and engaging speaker.

From 1975 to 1995, he worked for Pepsi-Cola Company. In 1989 he was named Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer for Pepsi’s beverage operations worldwide. Beyond building and leading an organization of 400 human resource professionals that gained a reputation as one of the most distinctive, innovative and prestigious in the world, he devoted much of his time to growing and developing high-potential leaders. At a time when Pepsi’s operations comprised 70,000 employees in 150 countries, he advised, coached and counseled executives on how to enhance their leadership effectiveness. He is credited with upgrading Pepsi’s performance standards and organizational excellence and is acknowledged as one of the key architects of Pepsi’s distinctive culture, known for its openness, results orientation and assertive, “David vs. Goliath” style.

In 1993, he went on to become Chief People Officer for PepsiCo Europe. Based in London, he was responsible for building the management and organizational capability of all of PepsiCo’s businesses across continental Europe.

Prior to PepsiCo, from 1966 to 1975, he was an executive at Trans World Airlines, becoming one of the youngest vice presidents in TWA history. As Vice President of Employee Relations & Training, he was responsible for all management and flight attendant training.

Michael Feiner holds a B.S. degree from Boston University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. He is the author of “The Feiner Points of Leadership: The 50 Basic Laws That Will Make People Want to Perform Better for You”, published by Warner Books.