Michael A. Rinaldi, PT, OCS.

While at Ohio U, I was fortunate to have been an assistant to a prominent physiology researcher for nearly five years. During that time I was responsible for a substantial number of tasks (from the menial to the ultra-important) that supported the ongoing research within the lab. I was tasked with activities such as lab upkeep, file upkeep, supply maintenance, to literature search review, subject testing, data collection, and statistical measuring.

Being part of that team was wonderful; I got an appreciation that research is fascinating, challenging, rewarding, intriguing, hard work, and a lot more that people don't realize, including high-pressure. In some ways, it is also a game, motivated by personal or career ambition and the thrust to get ahead by promoting an agenda.

While the latter is not necessarily true in every lab, it nonetheless is true. I would assume it exists in nearly every profession as research itself is dependent on human interaction with the scientific method; and human interactivity with anything creates experience and outcome, extraordinary and spurious alike.

While at OU I got bit by the research bug and managed a couple of studies with a small team that (to my knowledge) never made it to publication, though did win a top award amongst the graduate school programs at the time.

Currently, I have been contacted to be part of a clinical research project that aims to compare different cohorts in the treatment of cervical radiculopathy in a mulit-center randomized trial.

All this while recently becoming a father and presenting to you.

From a business perspective, I found Michael Gerber, who's viewpoint resonated with me from the first chapter of his seminal work, The E-myth.  Along the way I've discovered Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, Tony Alessandro, Robert Kiyosaki, Ram Charan, Larry Bossidy, Jeffrey Gitomer, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Goldner, Robert Chaldini, Martin Lindstrom, Martin Armstrong, and many others. 

I've been a client of at least five different consulting companies through my career; I'm lucky to still have an appendage left for the money spent. 

Nonetheless, I do feel that most entrepreneurs do best when they work with a coach/mentor or consultant.  It's been proven in research studies and empirically verified by most consultants.  This is true for clinicians as well.

The most exciting areas of business for me are the use of profiling to place executives, sales-persons, leaders, & managers within an organization, and strategic planning.

I love working with PTs/PTAs and people in small business who want to get better at what they do and want to get ahead. 

I'm cut from the same stock. 

My personal "purpose" (for now) is to help improve the 'beingness', 'doingness' and 'havingness' of others. 

I hope to affect that with all of our clients.