Leveraging extensive corporate experience, Michelle specializes in co-creating highly customized engagements to meet the unique needs of clients and to serve as mechanisms to increase effectiveness, spark new possibilities, and generate optimal conditions for leaders, teams, and organizations to transform and thrive. With a foundation of trust and respect, Michelle supports leaders and teams to stretch and accelerate their development and impact by boosting overall leadership and team skills, identifying blind spots or obstacles that trip them up, noticing patterns of behavior and thinking, envisioning new paths and choices, and achieving bolder outcomes. She works with clients using a blend of coaching, training, and facilitation coupled with interactive platforms for video conferencing and collaboration to support leaders, teams, and virtual global events. Michelle is passionate about partnering with her clients to help them live, lead, and work more effectively, authentically, and collaboratively even amidst complexity, uncertainty and challenges.

As an ICF-certified coach, Michelle holds certificates from several world-renowned training programs, including specialties in team coaching and facilitation. Before coaching, Michelle was a research and people leader in a fast-paced, matrix team environment at Pfizer and brings to coaching 15 years of organizational and team experience along with a strategic, analytical and innovative mindset. Michelle now partners with leaders and teams across a range of industries with a niche in STEM and pharma-based organizations. Through her pro bono work with The Coaching Fellowship non-profit, she enjoys giving back by coaching women leaders throughout the world who are impacting environmental and social changes.

After graduate school in the California Bay Area, Michelle returned to Connecticut to enjoy a research career in large pharma while raising children close to family. She currently resides with her two teenage children, who appreciate growing up near 11 cousins, and Michelle loves her time with family and friends. In addition to reading, running, and playing tennis, she is energized by meeting new inspiring people through her coaching communities and travel adventures.

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