Michael Stenson, B.S.,
Business Development Consultant

Michael Stenson's career began as an Organization Development Consultant in the early seventies. His love of horses came much later in life, however, when he met Sara. The joke between them was that she could have a horse when he could have an airplane. Never one to play fair, or give up easily, Sara brought home a starving appaloosa colt knowing that Sage would quickly capture Michael's heart.

At first he agreed to learn to handle Sage well enough to be able to feed and care for him but was quickly intrigued by the playful colt and soon found himself looking for a riding teacher. One thing led to another and now many, many happy hours and clinics later he lives with Sara, horses, dogs, chickens, and countless native critters on forty acres, studies horsemanship and riding and finds himself in awe of the wonder of it all.

Michael's professional career has included working as a Business Coach, a Staff Development Trainer, an Operations Manager, a Senior Software Engineer, a Senior Systems Analyst, an Engineering Project and Product Development Manager, an Information Technology Manager, and Information Technology consultant to Fortune 500 firms.

Michael's avocation is T'ai Chi Ch'uan. He has studied and taught Yang Style Short Form, sword, animal forms, pushes hands, and Ta Lu since the early 70s. He has taught T'ai Chi at Naropa Institute, and co-founded Rocky Mountain T'ai Chi at Fort Collins. Michael created a video, "Fall Prevention Through T'ai Chi Principles".