Michael Cinquino is the creator of The Actor’s Approach to Compelling Communication™, a teachable system that applies the actor’s craft to business and everyday communication, developing confident, clear, and compelling communicators.

Michael has built a career at the intersection of performance, psychology, and leadership. He began his professional journey as a United States Navy Rescue Swimmer, where he learned to stay calm and decisive under extreme pressure. After being his military service, Michael earned his BA in Acting and Directing from DeSales University and went on to train at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts with William Esper, a protégé of Sanford Meisner. The program has produced actors such as Academy Award nominee Sebastian Stan, Emmy Award winner Tom Pelphrey, and Emmy nominees Kristin Davis and Calista Flockhart, carrying forward the Meisner lineage of authentic, presence-driven performance.

Michael then spent nearly a decade working directly with the founders of the CIO Strategy Exchange, an elite forum that brought together 25 Fortune 70 Chief Information Officers from organizations including Boeing, Goldman Sachs, the Department of Defense, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Behind closed doors, he witnessed how the world’s most powerful leaders navigate communication, trust, and influence at the highest levels.

Michael combines these experiences as a professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Paul College of Business and Economics, where he teaches The Work-Ready Communicator to emerging leaders. He is also founder of SoHo Creative Studio, where he helps executives, founders, and thought leaders translate their expertise into compelling video, podcasts, and keynote presence.

Pursuing a second master’s in Applied Psychology at Northwestern University, Michael deepens how he connects communication science and the psychology of presence.

He lives and works between Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Brooklyn, New York.