Michael Wade is a management consultant with Execupundit Consulting, LLC in Phoenix, Arizona. His practice specializes in leadership, ethics, and equal opportunity issues.

Prior to beginning his consulting practice in 1984, he served as the Command Equal Opportunity Officer for the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command in Washington D.C. and as the Equal Employment Opportunity Administrator for the City of Phoenix. He holds degrees in government and law from the University of Arizona. He has written six books: The Bitter Issue: The Right to Work Law in Arizona; Leadership’s Adversary: Winning the War Between Leadership and Management; How to Make Presentations to Councils and Boards; All I Said Was: What Every Supervisor, Employee, and Team Should Know to Avoid Insults, Lawsuits, and the Six O’clock News; EEO Management: How to Advance Equal Opportunity without Using Quotas or Singing Kumbaya; and Random Thoughts: Brief Reflections and Moments of Clarity. He also wrote an online career advice column for U.S. News & World Report.

Wade has advised executives, Army generals, professional athletes, police and fire chiefs, HR professionals, city managers, and first-line supervisors on sensitive management issues and has trained leaders and managers in 48 states and Puerto Rico.