Speaker Series - Wellness & Leadership with Mikke Pierson of Focal Point Coaching

​Join in for our new Speaker Series presented by our Wellness and Leadership Committees.  We have combined our committees to create this special support series for the communities reeling from the wildfires during our recovery and rebuild.

This Week’s Featured Speaker:

Mikke Pierson of Focal Point Coaching
Mikke Pierson is the founder of Pierson Business Growth Solutions, which focuses on helping America’s small businesses define and achieve their goals. Mikke has been an entrepreneur since graduating UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Psychology. He is most known for founding ZJ Boarding House, an Internationally known surf, skate & snowboard business, which he owned for almost 30 years before selling to Billabong.  Mikke also helped co-found the Board Retailer Association (BRA), which supported action sports businesses nationwide and led to Mikke teaching other retails on how to run their businesses better.
 
Mikke also works with adults in or recently out of rehab in reestablishing their lives and careers.
 
The foundation of Mikke’s coaching is to focus on personal and business leadership and communication. Mikke’s teaching follows three core principles developed from his life in leadership roles. Those principles are:
 
• All challenges are opportunities.
• The practice of proactive and positive communication.
• Stress is a choice.
 
Mikke was also recently the Mayor of Malibu and served as Councilmember in the city of Malibu for several years.  He has been involved in local politics for over 12 years, also as a Planning Commissioner and Public Works Commissioner and is currently on the Board of Directors of the PaliBu Chamber of Commerce.
 
Mikke has been on the US and International Board of SurfAid International, which runs health and wellness programs in remote areas of Sumatra. He was also the co-chair of the Santa Monica Homeless Action Network and is on the board of The Volunteer Collective, which acts as a force multiplier for other local non-profits.
 
Mikke is an avid mountain biker, adventure motorcycle rider, surfer and lives in Malibu with his wife Maggie. They have three children: Colin,  Emmet and Gracie.

Co-Chairs - Diane Kale of Diane4Health, Erica Segel of Malibu Moves, and Denise Klein of Milestones Ranch