Business Leaders Podcast

Mike Walker, CEO Opterre The early influences Why did I decide to train consultants? It is a rags-to-riches-type story where I grew up in a fairly poor background. My mom was divorced. She was a single mom with three kids. We basically have to live on food stamps to augment our living. And my mom was not the type of person that really was all that keen about that, so what she wanted to do is give me the food stamps and I’d go into the grocery store, buy the groceries, come back out and go back home. Well, there was one event that occurred where I was buying the groceries and I’m walking out the door. And as I’m walking out, as I was paying for ’em at the food stamps, the clerk was talking to somebody else, because [SP] I know he probably stole ’em. And, you know, like, some people have these catalyzing events, well, for me, that was one of them. Why Opterre Another catalyzing event occurred, which is I was quite responsible for outsourcing a lot of jobs from the U.S. to other co