Mike McCarthy has trained and consulted with teams, supervisors and managers at BMW, 3M, Ford Motor Company, Black & Decker, Eaton Electric, Georgia Power Company, the State of Tennessee, SkyChefs and many others. He has been a manager with Accenture, assisting clients with change management, and senior consultant with Aubrey Daniels International and Tarkenton & Co.

For three years, Mr. McCarthy was the editor of Performance Management Magazine, researching and writing about leadership, quality, and process improvement concepts and applications. He is the author of Sustain Your Gains: The People Side of Lean-Sigma and co-author of You Made My Day, a book about coworker recognition.