Michael Boyd OBE is a leadership, management, and organisational change specialist with over two decades of experience in sport, charity, and community development across Ireland and internationally. He is the founder of MB Consulting and Coaching and has held senior roles including sixteen years at the Irish Football Association, where he set up and led the IFA Foundation, creating and leading the award-winning “Football for All” and “Let Them Play” community engagement and youth strategies. Michael is a UEFA DFLM award recipient and a European A-Licence Coach. He currently serves as a consultant director with the Rio Ferdinand Foundation, Team Fee Pay, and Street NI, and is the former chair of Belfast Healthy Cities. Michael is a non-executive director at the prestigious Institute of Public Health, and he is also a volunteer board member of the Glentoran Social Partnership and the Northern Ireland Youth FA. In 2024, he was awarded an OBE for services to football, charity, and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.