Meet Michelle

Since publishing The Orange Line: A Woman’s Guide to Integrating Career, Family & Life, Michelle has coached individuals, led workshops, and continued exploring the self-limiting beliefs, behaviors, and archetypes that can prevent women and men from living and leading from their integrated, authentic selves.

A lifelong builder and change agent, Michelle co-founded Beaconhills College in her twenties, later developed a children's service for her local municipality following a devastating house fire and community tragedy, founded and managed successful early learning centres, and served as Head of the Family Advisory Service, Monash University.

Her research into policies supporting working parents in higher education led to an award-winning business initiative and ultimately brought her from Australia to the United States for a corporate leadership role and global project. Over more than 25 years, she has held management, executive, consulting, and project leadership positions, including VP and SVP roles. Colleagues describe her as an intra/entrepreneur and organizational change agent.

Her work is holistic, transformational, and deeply relational—grounded in the courage to go deeper, question inherited assumptions, and embrace change. Her curiosity about the relationship between money, behavior, career, and life integration led her to become a Certified Money Coach (CMC)®.

Michelle is co-author of The Orange Line, a U.S. study exploring women's self-limiting career beliefs and the skills needed to integrate career, family, and purpose. Her peer-reviewed research on organizational culture, Work Friendly Policies: Useful or Symbolic, is published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources..

Michelle holds:

M. Mgt. and B.Ed. Studies, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

Joint Diploma, Women & Church, Athaneum Pontifical Regina Apostolerium, Rome

Certified Money Coach (CMC)®

Master of Bohmian Dialogue

Program on Negotiation for Executives and Dealing with Difficult People, Harvard Law School, MIT. MA

Certificate of Welfare Studies (Counselling), Institute of Social Welfare, Victoria, Australia

When she is not coaching, she is VP, and Board Member of Peace Through Commerce Inc. a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, 2025,

Her joy includes her husband, children, grandchildren, friends, community, hiking, and leading Contemplative Prayer at St Mel' Woodland Hills, CA, where Michelle and her husband reside.

"One of my goals is to raise the collective consciousness about the 'financial filter' and 'feminine filter' that can serve to limit personal growth.

"There is enough; I am enough."

Michelle