She combines real-world leadership experience with evidence-based insights from her MSc (Hons) in Work & Organisational Behaviour from DCU, where her research focused on how tech leaders build and maintain trust in remote and hybrid environments. This work informs her distinctive perspective on the future of work, sustainable leadership, and designing flexibility that works for both people and organisations.
Through The Leading Place, Michelle supports organisations with leadership development, communication, strategy, and culture change. She designs and delivers workshops, programmes, and one-to-one coaching on inclusive leadership, psychological safety, trust, gender equity and allyship, workplace dynamics, resilience, and sustainable careers – grounded in positive psychology and evidence-based frameworks, and tailored to the real challenges people face at work.
Michelle is a qualified and accredited coach and mentor (Advanced Diploma in Personal, Leadership and Executive Coaching, Kingstown College; EMCC Global EIA Practitioner accreditation – coaching and mentoring) and is a Chartered Member of CIPD. Her approach is grounded in trust, psychological safety, positive psychology, and authentic connection. She is particularly passionate about inclusive and sustainable leadership, with a long-standing focus on gender equity and women in technology, and a deep commitment to intersectional inclusion.
Through her senior roles, Michelle has championed Employee Resource Groups and led initiatives that delivered tangible,measurable impact. She currently volunteers as a mentor with Growth Guild EU/UK (supporting women and gender-diverse people in tech leadership) and has mentored on the STEM Passport for Inclusion programme (NUI Maynooth) and the TU Dublin Saer Mentorship Programme. She completed the 30% Club Ireland/Deloitte Board Ready programme (2022-2023) and serves as a board member of North Dublin Citizens Information Service.
Michelle has been recognised as a finalist in the 2026 Newstalk Changemaker Awards (Inclusive Workplace and Workplace Wellbeing categories) and shortlisted for the DITA 2026 Startup Visionary Award; shortlisted for Women in STEM Awards 2026; a finalist in the Everywoman in Tech Awards (Leaders category, 2022) and Women in Tech Awards (Trailblazer category, 2019); listed in Diversein’s 133 Women Who Change the World (2023); included in CTO Craft 100; and featured in Focus on Diversity’s Irish female-founded companies who empower females in Ireland and abroad (IWD 2025 and 2026).
Her thought leadership has been featured by CTO Craft, Electronic Specifier, Irish Examiner, Business Post, and Silicon
Republic. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, podcasts, and panels.