Leveraging her natural curiosity, Michelle "Mickie" DeVeau, Psy.D. strives to develop and deliver innovative and customized solutions for her clients, always adapting to their needs, but never sacrificing excellence.

An experienced, resilient professional with demonstrated success across multiple industries, including health care, health insurance, telecommunications, sales, financial services, energy, pharmaceutical, higher education, government, and non-profit, Mickie has over 20 years of coaching and consulting experience. Throughout her career, she has led and supported organization-wide change efforts and designed and delivered enterprise-wide initiatives and training in the areas of coaching, mentoring, performance management, process improvement, organizational change management, conflict management, emotional intelligence, and communication.

As a director of the Leadership Institute within MD Anderson Cancer Center, Mickie also provides oversight to personalized development (i.e., numerous leadership development, mentoring and coaching programs), team science and change enablement programs within the institution. The success and impact of the coaching programs at MD Anderson achieved a “gold” designation with the MEECO Institute (Measuring Employee Experience, Executive Coaching and Culture in Organizations), signifying that MD Anderson’s coaching programs represent best-in-class standards and execution.

Mickie is a certified coach with the International Coach Federation, a Gallup certified strengths coach, and a certified facilitator for various leadership development and training programs, including CoreClarity (strengths-based facilitation), Emotional Intelligence, Situational Leadership and Courageous Conversations.

Prior to joining MD Anderson, she worked for the Philadelphia region’s largest health insurer, Independence Blue Cross. She earned her doctorate and masters degrees in Organizational Psychology from the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University. Her bachelor degree in Psychology and Business is from the University of Scranton.