Mike Tenbusch

Mike Tenbusch is the CEO of Uncommon Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm helping urban schools, churches and impact organizations create strategies to improve conditions and outcomes for kids. Born and raised in Detroit, he has had a lifelong calling to make Detroit a better place to be a kid and to raise a family. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he co-founded an organization that now serves fourteen thousand children each year, served on the board for Detroit Public Schools, helped a charter school district graduate more than 90 percent of its first high school class, created a plan and led the effort to turn around the city's most challenged high schools, and launched a training center for young people in partnership with best-selling author Mitch Albom. He and his wife, Maritza live with their three teen-aged children, Grace, Julia, and Jacob, outside Ann Arbor, Michigan.