Michael Salmon

Michael Salmon has more than two decades of experience in sales, marketing, and management, working for both privately held and Fortune 500 companies. Throughout his career he has focused on helping people find the work that they most want to do. He refers to himself as a special kind of "PHD"- passionate, hardworking, and dedicated.

He served as the director of sales and marketing for Unicco Service Company, one of the largest privately-held facility management firms in the country, with revenues of $750 million. He was also the vice president of marketing for First Security, the nation's third largest privately-held security company, which was recently sold to Pinkerton's. Coincidentally, Salmon started his career at Pinkerton's, where he was the top salesperson for many years.

Salmon ultimately founded his own search company, Berkshire Staffing, in which he combined the best practices that he had identified with the "blue chip service delivery model" that he had developed over his business career. 'His clients included Liberty Mutual, John Hancock Financial Services, Hewlett Packard Company, State Street Bank, and J.P. Morgan Chase. Salmon eventually sold Berkshire to a major national staffing organization, in order to focus exclusively on the networking program that he had been developing. The mission of his organization, M. Salmon & Associates, Inc., is to deliver 'his unique networking methodology to the greatest number of people so that they can learn to build their own lifelong networks. Salmon's networking programs are being used by many corporations, including Viacom, Fidelity Capital, New York Life, United Technologies, Uniroyal, CDrive Corporation, Metratech, and Wildfire Communications.

Salmon is an industry leader on networking and career counseling. He has a book published by Career Press coming out in the fall 2003 titled SuperNetworking: Reach The Right People, Build Your Career Network, and Land Your Dream Job-Now! He has been interviewed on national radio shows, including the USA Radio Network, the KYW-AM "News," and WBNW-AM's "Business Sense: The Power Lunch." He has also been quoted in national publications, including USA Today, featured in Investor's Business Daily Leaders and Entrepreneur Magazine, and in a September, 2002 syndicated column titled "Expert Develops Step-By-Step Approach to Networking." Salmon has also written an article "Harnessing the Power of Networking," which was published on the Web site and in the annual magazine of the Northeast Human Resource Association'. Salmon is also a much sought-after speaker on networking and related subjects.

Salmon is an active member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and the Northeast Human Resource Association (NEHRA).