Michael P. Balzano
Bio of Michael P. Balzano Dr. Michael P. Balzano is President of Balzano Associates, a national firm specializing in workforce communications. Balzano has provided advice on working class issues to six US Presidents, Cabinet Secretaries, Members of Congress, and CEOs of Fortune 100 companies. Balzano was born in 1935 in New Haven, CT, of Italian working-class immigrants. A learning-disabled child, he dropped out of school and worked as a garbage collector. He entered an optical apprenticeship...See more
Bio of Michael P. Balzano Dr. Michael P. Balzano is President of Balzano Associates, a national firm specializing in workforce communications. Balzano has provided advice on working class issues to six US Presidents, Cabinet Secretaries, Members of Congress, and CEOs of Fortune 100 companies. Balzano was born in 1935 in New Haven, CT, of Italian working-class immigrants. A learning-disabled child, he dropped out of school and worked as a garbage collector. He entered an optical apprenticeship and attend high school at night. At 25 he became a licensed optician and managed an optical company in Stanford, CT. He studied history at the University of Bridgeport where he graduated magna cum laude and received a PhD in political theory with distinction from Georgetown University. President Nixon appointed him to the White House staff as liaison with labor, blue collar and ethnic groups. In 1973 Balzano was appointed Director ACTION, the federal agency housing domestic volunteer programs, and the international Peace Corps. In 1979, Balzano was a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and published monographs "Reorganizing the Federal Bureaucracy: The Rhetoric and Reality" and "The Peace Corps: Myths and Prospects." He was a contributing author to the Hofstra University symposium on Nixon's presidency and the 1972 election. See less
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