Michael C. Shindler is President of Four Corners Advisors, Inc. (FCA), a hospitality transactions consultancy and advisory firm he established in July 2007 and relaunched in May 2014.  FCA provides strategic, transactional and asset management services to developers in the conception, programming, planning and negotiation of hospitality transactions, advisory services in brand entry to the hospitality marketplace and restructuring and workout services to lenders and borrowers for hotel loans. In 2022, Mr. Shindler was elected to membership in the prestigious International Society of Hospitality Consultants.

Mr. Shindler’s career arc has involved positions of increasing responsibility in the hospitality transactions industry over the last 35 years, working with a major brand in a development capacity, hospitality brokerage and consulting boutique, an international luxury brand, a destination resort company, and a lifestyle brand. In addition, prior to his entry into the hospitality industry, Mr. Shindler held senior development positions with a major real estate syndication firm and practiced law in Chicago from 1976 to 1984.

Mr. Shindler has spoken and written extensively on the relationship among hotel owners and hotel managers and the impact of the legal system on that relationship and is a regular speaker at hospitality investment conferences.  Since 2014, Mr. Shindler has been a regular faculty member for the Hotel & Tourism Law Program at the Washington College of Law of American University in Washington, DC, where he served as an Adjunct Associate Professor from 2017 to 2020. In addition, Mr. Shindler has lectured to both graduate and undergraduate hospitality classes at University of Denver, The Ohio State University, Roosevelt University (Chicago), University of Delaware, University of Central Florida and Ferrandi, The French School of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management, in Paris.

Mr. Shindler is a former member (having stepped down in 2020 after eight years of service) of the International Advisory Board of Carolina Performing Arts, the organization on the campus of the University of North Carolina.  During his tenure, Mr. Shindler served as chair of the Strategic Initiatives Committee for CPA (2013-2017), Vice Chair (2015-2017), Chair (2017-2018) and Chair Emeritus (2018-2020) of the IAB.

Mr. Shindler received his AB in Political Science from the University of North Carolina in 1973 and his JD from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1976.  Mr. Shindler and his wife, Andrea Gellin Shindler, have two adult children (Adam and Carey) and a son-in-law (Matthew Warren), all professionals in the hospitality industry.  They live in Chicago and maintain a residence in Phoenix.