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An Uncommon Team which celebrates and utilizes the unique gifts each person brings

Upgrade the most powerful part of your tech stack:
YOU

Helping tech leaders unlock resilience, adaptability, and ease—without burnout or risk

  • If you or your team feels burnt out...
  • If you or your leaders are stretched thin...
  • If your culture feel likes a liability instead of a strength...
You're not broken.

Nor are you alone.

You're encountering invisible dynamics that block quality, stall change, and quietly drain energy from you and your teams.

These aren’t process problems. They’re culture puzzles—subtle, systemic, and deeply human.

I partner with engineering and people leaders to co-create simple, safe, and sustainable solutions to their quality culture puzzles.

We don't just solve these puzzles. We unlock the heroic leadership within you and your team—and often recover parts of yourselves that may have gotten a little lost along the way.

For thirty-five years across six continents, I have helped top tech leaders at companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Tableau  to:

  • Retain and elevate top talent
  • Build resilient, human-centered leadership
  • Create cultures that support velocity and joy

And I can help you. 

I’m Michael Hunter, The Uncommon Hero.

Not the kind who swoops in with flashy fixes—but the kind who journeys beside you, guiding you in unlocking your own heroic leadership.

Not with a cape.

(Well, maybe with a cape. Capes are cool :)

With clarity. And compassion.

Helping you make minuscule tweaks with massive impact.

Guiding you and your people into your own heroic identities—ones rooted in resilience, adaptability, and ease.

If you're after a quick-fix cookie-cutter solution, you're in the wrong place

Your journey is unique. Why settle for anything that isn't?

Traveling my unique path, and guiding leaders like you on theirs, led to the Uncommon Teams System, a three-phase progression designed to help you craft your own leadership legacy:

A graphical depiction of the Uncommon Teams System, showing the progression from your Change Map to your Foundational Framework to your Uncommon Expansion Ecosystem and then back to a new Change Map
  1. Change Map – clarity on where you are, where you want to be, and what’s in the way
  2. Foundational Framework – your custom system for resilient, adaptable, easeful leadership
  3. Uncommon Expansion Ecosystem – scaling that Framework across your team and culture

If you want:

  • Systems that retain, empower, and elevate everyone
  • Leadership that adapts without chaos
  • Culture that supports velocity, not burnout, and scales without losing its soul

Testimonials

Tamara: The CTO Buried in Busywork

From bottleneck to strategic leader

“You gave me back my life—and my team."

Burnout 🔽
Leadership Capacity 🔼
Team Performance 🔼

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Marion – The Manager with No Map

Built clarity and trust in the midst of chaos

“You helped me not just survive but thrive.”

Burnout 🔽

Leadership Capacity 🔼

Team Performance 🔼

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Margaret – The Engineer on the Edge

Rediscovered purpose without leaving the company

“I was ready to burn all my bridges. You helped me understand what I was searching for—and that’s the only reason I found a perfect match.”

Engagement 🔼

Retention 🔼

Role Fit 🔼

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