Speaker · Leadership Strategist · Philanthropy Advocate
The most powerful leaders aren't the loudest ones in the room. They're the ones who know exactly who they are.
Michèle Lallemand Brazil has spent two decades in the rooms where leadership is built. On stages, in boardrooms, and at the tables where philanthropic decisions get made. As Board Chair of the Fiver Children's Foundation, Co-Chair of the Grant Committee at Impact 100 NYC, and a leader of the Central Park Conservancy's Women's Committee, she doesn't just talk about leadership. She lives it.
Before that, she spent 13 years telling stories that moved the world. For The Oprah Winfrey Show, HBO, and The Sundance Channel. She knows how to command a room. She also knows what it feels like to walk away from a title and wonder who you are without it.
That's what makes her different. And that's why women trust her with the hard stuff.
Her keynotes don't just inspire. They shift something.
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The Recalibration You didn't lose yourself. You outgrew the version everyone else knew. This keynote gives high-achieving women a powerful framework for returning to themselves, not as they were, but as who they are becoming. Raw, honest, and grounded in lived experience.
Voice Beyond Titles Your value was never in the title. This talk dismantles the stories leaders tell themselves about why they're not ready, not qualified, or not enough. It replaces them with the tools to lead from exactly where they stand.
The Steward Leader Showing up to meetings isn't leadership. This talk is for nonprofit boards and philanthropic leaders who are ready to stop attending and start advancing the mission. Drawn from real governance experience at the highest levels.