Welcome
About Michael Skye & the Honor Window
Discover the path that transforms suffering relationships into opportunities for honor, trust, and authentic connection
A Mountain, a confrontation, a breakthrough
On a mountain outside Reno, Nevada, after leading a group of allies in a sunrise visioning ceremony, Michael's former girlfriend and co-facilitator Deborah confronted him: "Michael, I feel like you're judging me. And I want you to tell me to my face what your judgments are."
What happened next became the origin of the Honor Window.
As Michael spoke his judgments of Deborah too afraid, too small-minded, too emotional something profound occurred. When she asked him, "Can you see what I'm standing for?" a wall literally came down in his perception.
"It's like a veil dropping I see you," Michael said through tears. "Wow! It's like… a wall just came down literally like a wall came down!" In that moment, Michael realized he could create a repeatable process for others to break through the invisible walls that keep us suffering and separate.
He scrambled for a pen and drew out four quadrants. The Honor Window was born.
The work has spread across six continents, facilitated by Michael and by practitioners he's trained in the Honor Window Mastery program.
Personal breakthrough to global impact
What began as a personal breakthrough became a fundamental tool in Michael's intensive trainings, first at Wealth Warrior and Wealth Creator Boot Camps in 2003, then at Vision Force Boot Camps, iStands, and specialized programs for relationships, leadership, and crisis intervention.
Married couples meet each other "for the first time" after decades together
Parents and children heal lifelong wounds
Veterans find peace after moral injury and PTSD
Leaders under siege reclaim their authority
Conscious change-makers navigate crisis of conscience with honor
Business partners reconcile after years of not speaking
The team behind Honor Window
Meet the team hat makes the Honor Window projects a success
Our Values
Honor Window is more than just a tool or process, but a representation of core principals that we belive in to change improve the lives, empathy and judegment with a process that works
Human Dignity
We lead from the truth that dignity is not earned it's intrinsic to being human. When you see through judgment walls to the dignity within others, you access transformational leadership capacity that builds rather than destroys.
Courageous Self-Honesty
Honor Window provides safe structure for this self-discovery that unlocks your next-level leadership.
This isn't about shame it's about the courage to see yourself clearly and choose growth over comfort.
Honor
Honor is the moment-by-moment choice to uphold what's sacred in others and yourself. It's seeing beyond behavior to intention, beyond conflict to connection. This choice creates the foundation for trust, respect, and lasting relationship transformation.
The man behind the work
Michael Skye didn't set out to create a relationship technology that would transform leaders' lives around the world. He was simply trying to keep his family together.
In 1997, after his parents' divorce had fractured his family for a decade, Michael developed practices for facing fears, being radically honest, and standing as an ally practices that helped him unite his brothers and sisters after years of conflict.
For the next six years, he refined these tools, teaching them to small groups while working various jobs and figuring out what his life's work really was.
Michael's vision extends beyond individual transformation to cultural transformation, a world where honor is the foundation of how we relate to each other, lead each other, and build together.
Through HonorWindow.com, Vision Force, and the growing community of Honor Window practitioners, this vision continues to unfold.
