Book Summary - Activating Your Ambition: A Guide to Coaching the Best Out of Yourself and Others

MIKE HAWKINS is an executive coach and expert in helping people reach their goals. He is president of Alpine Link Corporation, where he is a respected practitioner, speaker and thought-leader on leadership, self-improvement and business improvement. He has a reputation for consistently leading organizations and individuals to higher levels of achievement.

Prior to founding Alpine Link Corp., he developed his practical perspectives on behavioral change through his own personal victories in self-improvement together with his unique combination of experience in engineering, sales and senior management. He has worked in many industries including management consulting, information technology, financial services, manufacturing, construction, energy, telecommunications, utilities, and non-profits.

Throughout Mike’s career, he has excelled in overcoming challenging issues. He truly understands not just what to do and why to do it, but how to do it. In his executive coaching experience and in turning around under-performing businesses, he has uncovered recurring root cause issues that limit performance. As a result, Mike has refined several frameworks including Activating Your Ambition™, The SCOPE of Leadership™, and Peak Potential Selling™ to help organizations and individuals break through their limitations and achieve new levels of success.

Mike put himself through college earning a bachelor’s degree in science and while working for IBM he attended a one year advanced management program at the Harvard Business School.