Michael King is the Director and Creator of The Communities Project, an initiative aimed at expanding the leadership capacity of individuals and organizations to effectively tackle issues critical to the communities they serve. He is also the Managing Principal of Impact Leadership Training & Coaching, LLC. Michael is the former Director of Outreach & Engagement for Facing Addiction with NCADD. He spent over a decade in the political arena, working on Presidential, Gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and local campaigns, from county to state legislative efforts. He is a past Campaign Director, Field Director, and Communications Director for the Washington State Democratic Party, and the former Executive Director of the Washington State Senate Democratic Campaign Committee.

Throughout his career, Michael has worked to organize numerous constituencies, including organized labor, veterans and young people. He is a co-founder of a Washington state based not for profit organization aimed at empowering young people to become engaged in the political process, and a past Public Policy Committee Co-Chair for Faces & Voices of Recovery. Michael is also a 2018 alumni of JustLeadershipUSA’s Leading with Conviction program, and a graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Institute’s Virtual Art of Leadership program. Michael has studied solution focused coaching, and has served on the Steering Committee of the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence.