About Mike Cline

Mike Cline is the VP of Operations for Venturist, Inc.  Mike spent 28 years in the United States Air Force retiring as a Lt Col in 1996.  For most of his career, Mike worked as a Special Agent in Special Investigations and Counterintelligence with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.  Highlights of his career include tours of duty in Vietnam, England, Republic of the Philippines, Germany and Turkey.  After the 1st Gulf War Mike joined the faculty of the US Air Force Command and Staff College where he met John Warden and helped John apply some of his ideas of strategy to the curriculum and re-organization of the college.  In 1996 when Mike retired from the Air Force, he joined John at Venturist, Inc. to pursue a job as a fulltime consultant teaching strategic planning methodology and facilitating strategy development with clients. Mike has been instrumental in helping John refine his strategic thinking and planning methodology–The Prometheus Process.  Mike also develops internal software tools to support strategic planning engagements with clients.

Mike earned his BS in Political Science (’74) and his MS in International Relations (’85) from Troy University, Alabama.  He currently resides in Slapout, Alabama