Michael and Katie Stallard are partners of E Pluribus Partners and the Connection Culture Group, leadership training and consulting firms based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Their clients have included Costco, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, Qualcomm, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Treasury Department, Turner Construction and Yale-New Haven Health. Texas Christian University founded the TCU Center for Connection Culture based their work.

Michael and Katie are coauthors of Connection Culture and Michael is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out.