Michelle’s expertise lies in executive coaching and individual assessment work, all areas of talent management, leadership development programs, helping leaders build high performing teams, and organizational capability building and design.  Michelle has worked with a variety of different industries and has worked both independently as a consultant as well in large Fortune 500 organizations across a variety of industries.  She now specializes in working with physicians and others working in medicine and works across academia and industry.  

Michelle received both her master’s and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron.   She has a BA in Psychology from Boston College.  

Areas of Coaching Expertise: My key focus as a coach is to help leaders think differently about their challenges and how they approach situations.  I tend to work with high potentials to help them realize their full potential, women who are working in male-dominated groups, and new managers, at all levels of the organization, who need to build upon and enhance their leadership skills.  Having worked extensively in the Pharmaceutical and Biopharma sector, as well as in academic medicine, I have expertise in coaching physician leaders that have developed problematic behaviors, PIs who need to learn how to manage their labs, or high potential physician leaders that have recently taken on new leadership roles or who are looking to determine their career trajectory. 

Coaching Philosophy: When working with my clients, it is important that the client is willing and open to change, they have been given feedback on what needs to change, they are in a supportive environment and they can visualize a desired future state that is different than the current state.  I take a very inquisitive and direct approach to engaging each individual and tend to take a “meet them where they are approach” which allows me to engage without judgment.  My goal is to have people realize, for themselves, how they can do things differently and to help them build a new set of skills that will allow them to be successful not only in the current environment but in the future as well.  In addition, I often ask my clients to reframe their way of thinking so that they can approach challenging scenarios differently and more productively.  

Selected Coaching Clients:  Interim Division Chief, Pharmacoepidemiology; Interim Chief Medical Officer; Division Chief, Geriatrics; Division Chief, Rheumatology; Researcher, Gastroenterology; and Division Chief, Leukemia and Lymphoma.