Mike Spivey (law school administration)

Mike Spivey is a former senior level administrator at Vanderbilt, Washington University and Colorado law schools, respectively. He is the founder of The Spivey Consulting Group[1] and motivational speaker,[2] and he has been featured as an expert on law schools and law school admissions in many national media outlets, including The New York Times,[3] Reuters,[4] The Economist,[5] the ABA Journal,[6][7] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[8] U.S. News & World Report,[9] CNN/Fortune,[10] Above the Law,[11][12] and Law.com.[13] He was among the first higher education experts to write publicly about the possibility of university campuses remaining closed through fall 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic[14] and has been featured in the media in respect to how higher education should respond.[15]

Mike Spivey
Born	1972 (age 49–50) New Canaan, CT
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Vanderbilt University (B.A.) University of Alabama (M.B.A.)
Known for	Higher Education Leadership

He has published hundreds of articles on how to improve law schools, on law school admissions, on legal employment[16] and on motivation and goal-setting[17] and has been featured as a motivational speaker at colleges and universities, including presenting with Civil Rights Leader Representative John Lewis and Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.[18][2] He hosts a podcast, "Status Check with Spivey,"[19] in which he speaks about legal education and admissions and has interviewed a number of psychologists and researchers, including Judson A. Brewer,[20] Guy Winch,[21] Gabor Maté,[22] Anna Lembke,[23] and Kristin Neff.[24] Spivey currently serves on the board of directors for two legal education entities — a non-profit[25] and a tech startup — and is a former advisory board member for LexisNexis.[26] He is from New Canaan, Connecticut and resides in Boulder, Colorado.