Michael Ayalon

Michael Ayalon

TN, US
Motivational speaker with expertise in Hazing Prevention, Sexual Assault Prevention, and Alcohol Abuse Prevention in Fraternities and Sororities to create safer college campuses.

Michael Ayalon is a successful business owner and seasoned executive with a proven track record of growing companies. He's an award winning speaker that is passionate about entrepreneurship and greek life. In October of 2015, he founded Greek University. In July of 2012, Michael became the 7th Executive Director of Sigma Pi Fraternity International, which was founded in 1897. Michael was responsible for the effective administration of the International Fraternity with over 125 chapters and 78,000 living members from its headquarters in Lebanon, TN. Sigma Pi initiated their 100,000th member in March of 2014. Michael's focus was to provide training, guidance and innovative opportunities for leadership, social, academic, and personal development. From 2012 – 2015, Sigma Pi experienced record growth in membership, highest average chapter size and highest number of initiates in the history of the Fraternity. Sigma Pi experienced all-time high performance in GPA and community service hours as well. In November of 2013, Sigma Pi Fraternity purchased the historic Mitchell House in Lebanon, TN as their new headquarters, which was the former Cracker Barrel headquarters location.

Prior to joining Sigma Pi, Michael was the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of an industry leading website design and search engine optimization company in New York with employees all over the world. Prior to that, he was the Director of Finance for a $25M global Cisco Premier Partner with offices in New York City, Amsterdam, and Bangalore. Michael's key accomplishments include identifying and implementing cutting edge technologies to produce better reporting, greater transparency, and more efficiency to these organizations.

Michael has presented over 300 engaging presentations on over 100 college campuses and companies to empower, motivate, and create safer/bigger communities. Michael is a TIPS certified trainer, and he lives in Franklin, TN with his wife Jennifer and their two children.

Michael Ayalon is a successful business owner and seasoned executive with a proven track record of growing companies. He's an award winning speaker that is passionate about entrepreneurship and greek life. In October of 2015, he founded Greek University. In July of 2012, Michael became the 7th Executive Director of Sigma Pi Fraternity International, which was founded in 1897. Michael was responsible for the effective administration of the International Fraternity with over 125 chapters and 78,000 living members from its headquarters in Lebanon, TN. Sigma Pi initiated their 100,000th member in March of 2014. Michael's focus was to provide training, guidance and innovative opportunities for leadership, social, academic, and personal development. From 2012 – 2015, Sigma Pi experienced record growth in membership, highest average chapter size and highest number of initiates in the history of the Fraternity. Sigma Pi experienced all-time high performance in GPA and community service hours as well. In November of 2013, Sigma Pi Fraternity purchased the historic Mitchell House in Lebanon, TN as their new headquarters, which was the former Cracker Barrel headquarters location.

Prior to joining Sigma Pi, Michael was the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of an industry leading website design and search engine optimization company in New York with employees all over the world. Prior to that, he was the Director of Finance for a $25M global Cisco Premier Partner with offices in New York City, Amsterdam, and Bangalore. Michael's key accomplishments include identifying and implementing cutting edge technologies to produce better reporting, greater transparency, and more efficiency to these organizations.

Michael has presented over 300 engaging presentations on over 100 college campuses and companies to empower, motivate, and create safer/bigger communities. Michael is a TIPS certified trainer, and he lives in Franklin, TN with his wife Jennifer and their two children.

Sexual Assault Prevention on College Campuses: Definitions, Consent, Bystander Intervention

Sexual violence is a serious and complex public health problem. We focus on preventing sexual violence perpetration before it happens to achieve the greatest impact. Our prevention strategies are consistent with best practices and are theory-based. From the individual perspective, we will build consent, bystander intervention, and healthy relationship skills with an evidence-informed interactive session. Attendees will be able to vote (live) using their cell phone on myths about sexual...
Audience ActivityEducational / Informative

Hazing Prevention. How Did We Get Here? How Do We Stop It?

By reading any newspaper across the country, you'll see that hazing has affected Greek organizations, sports teams, even the band. 55% of college students have been hazed, and 47% were hazed BEFORE they came to college. The unfortunate part is that 9 out of 10 students didn't consider themselves hazed. We often read about the hazing incidents that cause physical injury (or even death). What about the mental aspects of hazing? What are the ramifications over a lifetime to students?
Audience ActivityEducational / Informative

TIPS for the University™

TIPS for the University is a 2.5 hour program that helps students make sound choices when faced with difficult decisions about alcohol use. Working together and with administration, students address drinking behaviors specific to their schools and develop intervention techniques appropriate to their campuses.

TIPS for the University provides students with the knowledge and confidence necessary to reduce high-risk drinking behavior among their peers. More than 1,200 campuses...
Audience ActivityEducational / Informative

Strategies for Managerial Excellence

Were you thrown into your position in your Fraternity, Sorority or company with little training or knowledge of the position? One of the biggest problems we face is that we are constantly reinventing the wheel, and we are repeating the same mistakes we made in the past because of a lack of officer transition and training in your organization. All of our effective recruitment techniques, fundraising programs, scholarship initiatives, risk management procedures, and other organizational memory...
Educational / Informative

Networking 101: Getting the Job or Customer That You Want

Is there a dream position that you want to have, or a dream customer that you want to serve? We'll show you how with the Contacts Count Networking System, and then develop all the principles behind it: Access Your Skills, Set Your Strategy, Sharpen Your Skills, and Select Your Settings.

We'll look at several incredible examples of how networking opportunities turned into huge personal and corporate success. We'll also review the 10 biggest misconceptions about networking, and...
Educational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Don't Get a Job, Be an Entrepreneur!

Do you want to be an Entrepreneur but don't know how to bring your business idea to life? While Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is just one example of a millennial uber-entrepreneur, this generation is saddled with large student debt that forces many aspiring college entrepreneurs away from nurturing their great business ideas. It also has been increasingly difficult for this generation to access business capital with that debt on the books. The percentage of new entrepreneurs (ages 20 - 34) was...
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