About Mike

Mike Mears retired as the CIA’s Chief of Human Capital and founded and headed the CIA Leadership Academy.

Prior to CIA, Mike was a senior vice president at GE Investments and a Six Sigma Black Belt. And before that, he launched multiple small business start-ups.

He earned his undergraduate degree at West Point and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mike has lectured on leadership at the Department of Defense, Georgetown University, the University of Salzburg, the University of Maryland, and the National Intelligence University.

He has delivered keynote speeches at a wide variety of business, government and academic conferences.