Dr. Michael T. Blue

Dr. Michael T. Blue is a leadership strategist, author, educator, and executive coach focused on identity, purpose, and character-based leadership. He holds a doctorate in Strategic Leadership from Regent University and is a John Maxwell Certified Coach. With nearly two decades of experience across education, business, and community contexts, his work centers on developing leaders from the inside out. His background spans technology, hospitality, entertainment, and facilities management, where he has led leadership development initiatives and coached executives and emerging leaders. He serves as an adjunct professor, mentors young adults in the collegiate transition space, and teaches leadership to men in correctional facilities. He is also a poet and spoken-word communicator. Dr. Blue is the author of Rise Up With Purpose: Transformational Leadership From the Inside Out, the foundational text behind the R.I.S.E. framework, and co-founder with his wife Stephanie of The Blues Print Co., a family-owned leadership formation house.