Michael Filan’s clients have included senior executives at IBM, Cognizant, Monsanto, Bayer, the Boston Consulting Group, Elsevier, UBS, and the IMD Business School.

In addition, he has conducted career-related workshops for employees of Verizon, Legal Aid Society, the ICL Group, Rabobank International; Unicredit; Metropolitan Transit Authority, Marsh & McLennan Companies; TP ICAP Group; Credit Suisse , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP;  the County of San Diego; Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas ; the Mental Health Association of Nassau County, Baruch College; Brooklyn Hospital Center; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; and the US Tennis Association;

Workshop topics have included: Interviewing for a job; Stress Management; Negative to Positive You; From Campus to Career; Fostering an LGBT Inclusive Workplace; Interviewing for a Job ; Art Therapy & Stress Management; Maximizing Your Brain’s Potential; Stress Reduction Tool Bag; Welcoming Change into your Life; Managing Strong Emotions: Embracing Happiness; Lightening Your Life With Laughter; and Putting the Pieces Together: The Art of Collage as a Creative Process.

For more than 25 years he was a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts’ Art Education Department.