Meet Executive Coach Michelle
Your excellence starts with the right coach.
Professional Coaching
Michelle is an organizational consultant, executive coach, conflict navigator, and relationship expert with over 20 years of experience helping leaders and organizations excel. She partners with businesses to elevate professional and organizational effectiveness, bringing a unique ability to identify the small shifts that create outsized impact.
Michelle leads with authentic enthusiasm and grounded insight. She draws on deep expertise in behavioral psychology, motivation, and achievement to help leaders bring their best selves forward every day. Her coaching uncovers natural strengths, restores clarity, and reveals untapped potential – leaving clients inspired, energized, and equipped with tools that create real momentum.
Known for her ease in connecting with others, Michelle blends experience from both municipal government and private-sector leadership. This breadth allows her to navigate complex systems with confidence and translate nuanced human behavior into practical strategies leaders can use immediately. She believes that job fulfillment, human connection, and appropriately placed laughter are essential ingredients in any culture that aims for excellence.
Michelle is an accredited ICF Executive Coach, holds a Master’s degree in Psychology, and is certified in several of the most effective organizational assessment tools used in small and large professional environments. Her work helps identify strengths, drivers, and motivators across teams – building cultures where people feel valued, connected, and positioned to succeed.
Specialty
Michelle brings a strong executive presence paired with an approachable, positive energy to her coaching work. For more than 20 years, she has helped leaders and teams uncover possibility, strengthen motivation, and achieve meaningful results. Her approach is grounded in psychology-informed strategies and a deep understanding of stakeholder relationships – the human engine behind every successful organization.
Michelle’s area of expertise is business relationships. Whether navigating conflict, mediating between competing priorities, or breaking down silos to restore alignment, she helps leaders understand that conflict isn’t a problem – it’s information. With the right tools, differences become opportunities to build trust, collaboration, and clarity. Supporting staff at all levels is her passion, and she equips people to connect easily and effectively with colleagues, stakeholders, and leadership.
Michelle also brings a balanced, forward-looking perspective on the integration of AI in the workplace. She helps organizations leverage technology while elevating the essential human-centered qualities that drive connection, resilience, and culture. Her coaching offers grounded discussions about the coexistence of AI and human strengths – and how both can shape a future where organizations thrive.
Experience
With executive experience in the public and private sectors, including non-profit organizations, Michelle brings a comprehensive insight to her coaching. Michelle is an accredited ICF Executive Coach, holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, and is certified to administer and teach the most requested assessment tools used in organizational settings.
A few of Michelle’s clients include County of Marin, County of Santa Barbara, County of San Luis Obispo, County of Napa, City of Stockton, City of San Rafael, City of Oxnard, JFCS Holocaust Center, IKEA, UCSF Medical Center, Alberta Children’s Hospital, The Principal Group and Stryker.
Commitment
Recognized for her executive presence, Michelle’s commitment to a strong working partnership and her unique insights and tools drive leadership excellence, collaboration, and organizational success across a broad spectrum of sectors. She advocates for continuous learning, holds herself to the same high standards and values that she holds for others and believes that any goal is possible.
