As a Senior Advisor to Brettschneider Executive Search, Michael Bzdak brings more than three decades of corporate leadership experience at Johnson & Johnson, where he most recently served as Global Director of Employee Engagement in the Office of Global Community Impact. In that role, he led the company’s global employee engagement strategy in social impact, overseeing volunteer initiatives, philanthropic partnerships, K–12 education investments, and global STEM programming. Michael retired in 2024 after a 30+ year career at Johnson & Johnson, where he helped shape enterprise-wide approaches to corporate citizenship, community investment, and business-society engagement.

 

Michael has served on numerous nonprofit and public advisory boards, including the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University, the New Jersey Governor’s Advisory Council on Volunteerism and Community Service, the New Jersey AIDS Partnership Advisory Committee, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, where he served as Chair of the Board. He currently serves on the Raritan Valley Community College Foundation Board and the Board of the Hunterdon Art Museum.

 

Recognized for his leadership in advancing social impact, Michael was named an Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow and received The Society of Women Engineers’ Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award for his long-standing support of women in STEM. He is the author of a book on corporate cultural responsibility and has published scholarly and practitioner-oriented articles examining corporate citizenship, global partnerships, and the evolving relationship between business and society.

 

Michael holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MA and Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University. He currently serves as a visiting part-time lecturer at Rutgers University and has previously taught at New York University.

 

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