Testimonials

VP, AI & Data Centers,Intel Corporation

“Michelle helped our leadership team focus on the organization we wanted to create. She designed a program that led us to determine the values we needed to grow and where we needed to focus to deliver results. Not only was it a pleasure working with her, it was productive!”

CEO,AI Edge Company (Acquired by Amazon)

“Michelle greatly helped my company by coaching not only me (CEO) but also several members of my team through some difficult, messy situations. She asks well-chosen, penetrating questions and listens carefully enough to see the unsurfaced dysfunction hidden beneath the replies. She is unafraid to explore challenging, serious issues, but does so with unwavering empathy as powerful as her insight. She creates a safe environment that enables the vulnerability necessary for meaningful changes to occur. I am grateful for Michelle’s guidance and wise counsel as my coach, and I am proud to call her my friend as well.”

Former CFO,The Honest Company

“Michelle showed me what it means to embrace vulnerability and how not only to recognize but also to optimize my strengths and indications of these strengths in overdrive. She was an amazing listener and truly coached me in a way that made me tangibly better every week!”

Controller/VP Finance, Health & Wellness Industry

“Working with Michelle has been transformative for my leadership and management journey. Her coaching played a pivotal role in helping me develop my leadership skills and ultimately secure a recent promotion to VP Finance. We began our coaching engagement during a particularly complex chapter of my life — navigating IPO readiness at work while adjusting to being a new mom. Michelle took the time to gather thoughtful feedback from within our organization, which allowed us to identify clear priorities and focus areas. Michelle’s insight, empathy, and actionable guidance continue to be invaluable in helping me evolve as a leader.”

CEO, FotoNation

“Michelle managed to ‘restart’ my middle and senior layer management, stuck somewhere between the migration from a small to a medium-sized company, and helped them deal with massive work environment changes from a private company to a public one.”

Dean & Distinguished Professor, University of San Diego, School of Business

“Michelle has a great inquisitive, and both analytic and synthetic way of thinking. Michelle always invites her peers and work mates to go to a higher level of reflection and action. She delivers what she promises and has very well developed and cosmopolitan interpersonal skills. I totally recommend Michelle as a consultant and/or business coach. Working and having conversations with Michelle is simply an intellectual delight.”

Former President, XPERI (formerly Invensas)

“I’ve worked with Michelle over many years – in addition to being a good person who deeply cares about people and the environment, she’s intelligent, insightful, and articulate. As a leadership coach, she strikes a perfect balance of actively listening, constructively challenging, and sharing objective, actionable feedback. With a wealth of knowledge and experiences, she’s able to quickly identify core issues and challenges and is willing and able to dig in to collaboratively define viable strategies and plans to suit the situation at hand. She’s helped make me, and others on my team, better leaders and managers. She’s a pleasure to work with and someone I will continue to engage for years to come.”

Former VP, Kaiser Permanente

“Michelle worked for me in creating a portfolio management function managing 8-10 different technology tracks. She helped me effectively manage multiple teams, multiple projects in a program. She coordinated with them to understand their status, current issues, risks, and escalations. She advised them on their executive presentations and played a key role, especially in the cross-team initiatives by bringing teams together to collaborate. Her best skills are fostering collaboration, working with multiple groups, providing service while dealing with difficult customers, and most importantly, seeing everyone as a person, not a resource, and building strong relationships.

I highly recommend Michelle if you are looking to increase collaboration, manage difficult initiatives or improving the work culture and team development in your organization. She is a pleasure to work with!”

Former Director of Partnerships, Salesforce

“Michelle and Iʻve known each other for several years. In the beginning, Michelle was my counterpart in a business partnership for a high profile cloud software company where she served as COO. Today, I work with her as an executive coach utilizing her thoughtful perspective as guidance towards an entrepreneurial endeavor. Michelleʻs coaching style brings a mindful attentiveness, engaging interactive query, and insightful viewpoint from our collaborative dialogue blended with her abundance of experiences both professionally and personally.”

VP, Medical Consulting Operations

“After working for a small, privately owned company, I found myself professionally displaced when a national organization acquired our business. Although I remained in operations and upper-level management, I was now part of a team composed of colleagues from five different entities. Integrating these highly successful models brought numerous challenges, and collaborating at such a large scale was entirely new to me. Michelle’s professional guidance and coaching were instrumental in strengthening my communication and leadership skills, enabling me to navigate and excel in this elevated environment.”

VP, Hardware Engineering

“Michelle had a very positive influence on our company, where she coached me (Engineering VP) and a number of other colleagues. She was able to bridge many difficult issues with communication and collaboration, working across the organization to help us self-modify into a better team. She was able to effectively work horizontally across peers and vertically between managers and employees, maintaining trust between the various actors as she went. She coaches in a way that helps bring you to a realization on your own. Many of these things I continue to carry with me through career and life in general.”

Mental Health Counselor, Active Community Health Center

“Michelle is an exceptional executive coach, highly adept in the areas of leadership and cultural relations. I learned so much from her during our coach training program and later had the pleasure to work along side her at ICFLA. She brought innovation, a strong work ethic and passion to every project.”

Senior Principal AI Engineer

“Michelle helped me enormously in dealing and coping with a very pressurised working environment. She guided me and asked questions of me that opened my mind to efficient ways of coping and handling my role. She recommended reading lists that transformed my way of thinking about work/leading/innovation and rest.”