Mike Kanazawa

Michael Kanazawa, chief executive officer of Dissero Partners, is a consultant and advisor to leaders who are involved in driving major strategic shifts and corporate transformations. With sleeves rolled up, his work blends strategy, corporate transformation, and leadership into a core disciplined approach to generating breakthroughs in corporate performance. With clients that include Anadigics, AT&T, CompUSA, Intel, Symantec and Verizon, Kanazawa has put these principles to work. Before joining Dissero, Kanazawa was one of three partners at Alliance Consulting Group, whose western U.S region he helped grow from a single-client operation to a national high-technology strategy practice. Earlier, Kanazawa was a Director of corporate strategy at Pacific Telesis Group, led a 140 person sales and services team and led product strategy for a $300 million product line. A graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, he holds an MBA from the University of Southern California. As a guest lecturer at the business schools of the University of California, Berkeley, Fordham University, and De Anza College, Kanazawa has spoken often on transformational strategy and leadership to seed these ideas early in our new crop of corporate executives. He is also a frequent speaker and panelist at strategic planning and innovation conferences.

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