Michael Schoettle

Michael Schoettle was a partner of a leading global executive search firm and then a career coach for Executive MBAs at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In addition, he taught "Job Prep" to felons recently out of prison at the not-for-profit Chrysalis. Earlier in his career, he worked in sales and marketing in five different business units of Xerox. He learned how people get jobs and the importance of relating well to the people in organizations where they work.

He began sailing at an early age and crewed on a 5.5 meter that won its class in the Helsinki Olympics. He was active in the Olympic sailing for the next 40 years and was the Team Leader of the team that won medals in 9 out of 10 events in Barcelona..

Schoettle has a B.A. from Yale and an MBA Harvard and was a U.S. Naval Officer for three years.