Michele is a keynote speaker at meetings and conferences around the world for businesses, nonprofit organizations, and communities. Her presentations are founded in her belief that people are extraordinary and have the capacity to create far better futures than we have dared to dream. She comes to these beliefs through her personal life and professional experiences. Her beliefs have been validated through her research for her books and documentary about people who have dared to dreamed big and turned their dreams into reality and contributed to making the world a better place. Her public speaking topics include:
Visionary Leadership: Innovating for the Greater Good
The Secret to Cultural Transformation
The Power and Beauty of Diversity and Inclusion
The Power of DreamMakers: Personal stories of people, organizations, and communities that transformed their positive vision and values into reality
Her presentations are founded on her belief that people have the capacity to create far better futures than we have dared to dream. She comes to these beliefs through her personal and professional experiences and by researching and writing about people, organizations, and communities that transformed their compelling visions into reality, against tremendous obstacles.
Michele has engaged audiences around the world including:
→ Companies → Associations → Development Institutions → Gov. Community, Non Profits
Companies
IBM – Senior Leaders
Hewlett Packard – Executive and Professional Women’s Conference
Motorola’s Radio Products Group
Swiss Reinsurance Company – Leadership Conference, Zurich Switzerland
Banco Popular North America
Banco Popular Administrative Committee – Puerto Rico
EVERTEC – Leadership conferences – Puerto Rico
Banco do Brasil – Rio de Janeiro
LIGHT – Brazil’s Electrical Company, Rio de Janeiro
SulAmerica Segura – Rio de Janeiro
Benedictine Health Systems – Leadership Conference
St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital – Martin Luther King Celebration
Associations
The Peter Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management – Annual Conference
The Conference Board – CEO Leadership Conference
Association of Training and Development professionals (ASTD) International Conference, closing keynote speaker
Young Presidents Club – Rio de Janeiro
Executive Club Of Chicago – Senior Women’s Dinner
The Kellogg Foundation – Fellows Program
The National Association of Fund Raisers – Annual Conference
National School Board Association – Administrators Conference
Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM) – Annual Conference
Association of Human Resources (ABRH) Amazon Chapter – Manaus, Brazil
Association of Human Resources (ABRH), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Junior Enterprise World Conference, Paraty, Brazil
The Association of Girl Scouts Executive Staff
Academic and Executive Development Institutions
The Aspen Institute – Tomorrows Corporation (24 participants, 3 day dialogue sessions), The Young Managers Program and the Writer’s Lecture Series
The Society for Organizational Learning (Peter Senge’s Systems Thinking), Sloan School of Management, MIT Annual Conferences
Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University – Executive Masters in Leadership Program
TEDx San Francisco VIP Dinner
Episcopal Divinity School at Harvard, Shared Vision Conference
Government, Community, Non Profits
The United Nations – Vision for a Better World Global Dialogue
NASA – Senior Leadership Meeting
US Secretary of Defense – Strategic Human Resource Leadership Forum
The National Park Service – Leadership Conference
The Veterans Administration – Annual Leadership Conference
The US Department of Labor – Human Resources Leadership Forum
US Department of Education – Leadership Team Retreat