A successful standing ovation motivational speaker for more than 10 years, he has addressed small interactive audiences, providing hands-on guidance, as well as large energetic audiences consisting of thousands of people. He is the author of the upcoming book release "Break Free" which focuses specifically on identifying the internal and external influences from our past and present lives, and then breaking free from the stress, fear, and chaos that encompasses many of our lives.

After University, he founded a successful B2B (business-to-business) international consulting firm. Servicing a new "niche" market, in uncharted territory, while at the same time offering an intangible benefit to clients (a service rather than a product), he ran into what seemed like far more than his fair share of hurdles and obstacles.

He learned through the school of hard knocks what it is like to ride the proverbial roller coaster of "Ups" and "Downs" in business (and in life). As if business challenges weren’t enough, he also suffered from poor health, relationship problems, and financial stress.

When his passion later shifted towards new initiatives and ambitions, Michael embarked on a new career as a Real Estate Investor. Realizing that real estate is a common factor in the creation of vast wealth for many millionaires and billionaires, he invested a lot of time and money in his formal education (to become a real estate investor). In times of a downward economy, pending recessions, and turmoil within the lending industry, most real estate investors ultimately gave up their passion to pursue other opportunities. Michael once again faced the turmoil head-on, and sought to develop a structured system to ensure safe and successful investing for himself, as well as the many other investors who invested in real estate deals with Michael as joint-venture partners.

It became obvious to Michael, that clearly defined goals, passion, and facing fears and obstacles head-on, were all equally paramount to success. In addition to those qualities, he discovered that developing a clearly defined and well structure plan of execution, which was measurable, was equally key to success for anybody in any endeavour.

The common factors in both companies that led Michael to discover his true passion and purpose for launching Ultimate Happiness & Success, was his keen understanding of people's: