Michelle is a professional facilitator for programs in leadership development and coaching. She leverages on her strengths as a coach to facilitate team discussions and empower learners to learn in a safe and conducive workshop environment. She is a certified facilitator for ‘Manager Coach’, a workshop designed to equip managers to be coaches in their organizations.

With eleven years’ prior corporate HR experience at UBS AG, a global financial services institution, she is well-positioned to provide strategic HR advisory and people solutions to help businesses attain their goals. Michelle’s areas of expertise include Personal Effectiveness and Resourcefulness, Leadership Development, Leadership Branding, Talent Development, and Career Advisory.

A firm believer of values-based leadership, Michelle journeys with clients to uncover their personal values and brand of leadership. With insights to underlying motivations, she empowers them to lead from their values, and create the impact and results they wish to achieve. Michelle works with leaders to create compelling visions for themselves and their organisations that are closely aligned to both personal and corporate values.

Michelle is also a certified executive coach with over 1000 professional coaching hours. She coaches with a systemic view and considers clients’ growth and goals within the context of the systems they operate. Through systemic lenses, Michelle supports leaders and their teams in exploring their relationship to stakeholders and the wider organization, in addition to gaining clarity on their purpose and deliverables. There is both a focus on individual roles as well as team dynamics. Collectively, Michelle harnesses the power of the team and develops it to meet its purpose and objectives.

She leverages the potential of the team as a learning system by drawing them together to solve complex problems and develop their individual leadership edge. Through reflective listening and insightful questioning, Michelle holds the space for the team to synergistically solve problems, organically create their own learning, and apply these learnings to the organization.