Michael Rudnick

Michael is a Principal Consultant and member of the Executive Team at Logical Design Solutions, the leading consultancy helping Fortune 200 companies envision and design digital business ecosystems.

Michael is a results-oriented, global executive with over 25 years of experience and a proven track record creating, growing and leading large global professional service practices, enterprise software and product strategy and start-ups.

An industry pioneer and innovator, Michael developed many "firsts":

• Intranet, for Xerox, in the mid 1990s, before the term was even coined.
• Cloud-based SharePoint HR portal product
• Windows 8 HR app
• Intranet-only consulting and development firm

Michael career includes leadership roles in consulting, sales and product strategy for intranets, enterprise and HR portals, social and collaboration solutions for complex global corporations. Highlights:

• Counseling Fortune-500 C-suite on collaboration and social media for employee productivity and communication in diverse, global employee populations.
• Leading global enterprise and HR portal projects including strategies, redesign, governance and operations and large-scale, multi-lingual SharePoint implementations.
• Developing portals and social strategies to support mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs.
• Responsibility for a global partner relationship with Microsoft.

Michael's clients have included many of global Fortune-500 corporations across a wide variety of industries.

Prior to joining LDS, Michael was the Global Practice Leader for portals and collaboration solutions for Towers Watson for 11 years, Managing Director for Groundswell, Senior Vice President of Global B2E/B2B Solutions for Xceed, and the Managing Partner of Cognitive Communications, an intranet services firm that provided intranet consulting and solutions since the birth of the browser.

Michael is an internationally recognized speaker - having chaired conferences and workshops around the world.

Michael earned his BA at Ithaca College and is actively involved in the industry including on the Advisory Boards of Communitelligence.com and InternalCommsHub.com, and previously on the Board of Directors for CCM (2000-2004), IABC (1996-2000).

He is currently the President of the LISOT Youth Sailing Foundation.