Coaching with Michelle

I work with leaders at a specific inflection point: the move from technical excellence into strategic responsibility.

That transition is not a competence problem. It is structural. The skills that built your career to this point are not the same skills the new level requires. Most leaders feel that gap as self-doubt. I see it as a transition that has not yet been named, and naming it is where the work begins.

My background is in qualitative and mixed methods research methodology. That training shapes how I coach. I read what is missing as carefully as what is present. The pattern you cannot see in yourself, the language you reach for when uncertainty rises, the pathway you keep returning to even when it is not working: those are the places where the real work lives.

I anchor my coaching in Hope Theory, which treats motivation, pathways, and agency not as personality traits but as structures you can examine, name, and rebuild. Wellbeing is not separate from strategic effectiveness. Leaders who are depleted make different decisions than leaders who are not.

My Approach:

I focus on substance over style and capability that lasts. I value authenticity, direct feedback, and developmental interactions: the kind that create real, lasting change.

I hold an ICF ACC credential and am working toward PCC, and board certification in health and wellness coaching through the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC). I am the author of four scholarly books on qualitative and mixed methods research methodology and writing, with twenty-five years of experience developing leaders across the United States, Australia, and internationally.

If you have stepped into a role, or place, that does not yet feel like yours, that is where we start