Mike is a “visiting scientist” at PraxisFlow, where he uses his instructional design skills to continuously improve and adapt trainings to effectively meet current clients’ needs and contexts by engaging participants in the active construction of knowledge of lean/agile/strategy deployment/etc in socially interactive and cooperative settings. He is a former science teacher and current college debt slave, holding a BS in Environmental and Organismal Biology and MAT in Science Education. Mike embraces the research-backed theories of education in which learners take an active role in the construction of knowledge through inquiry and experimentation as the teacher acts as guide and facilitator; approaches which correspond with many of the core principles of the improvement and coaching kata of TPS and A3 problem solving.