Michèle speaks to two distinct audiences navigating the same essential challenge: stepping into their full authority with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
For Women and Organizations
The turning point is the beginning, not the end.
Michèle's keynotes and workshops for women meet participants at the moment of transition, the pause between who they were and who they are becoming. Drawing on her own journey and nearly two decades of storytelling experience at the highest levels of media, she creates rooms where self-doubt dissolves and self-respect becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
Women don't leave her sessions feeling motivated. They leave feeling recalibrated.
These Sessions Are Ideal For
Women's conferences and leadership summits
Corporate women's initiatives and employee resource groups
School and university communities
Nonprofit staff and volunteer gatherings
Signature Talks
The Recalibration For high-achieving women at a crossroads. Whether returning to work, reinventing a career, or simply ready for something more, this keynote gives women a powerful framework for coming back 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 women tell themselves about why they are not ready, not qualified, or not enough, and replaces them with the tools to lead from exactly where they stand. Women leave this session with a new relationship to their own authority.
From Invisible to Unstoppable For women who have set themselves aside for others and are ready to come back fully. This is not a talk about getting back on track. It is a talk about realizing you never left.
For Nonprofit Boards and Philanthropic Leaders
The best board members don't just show up. They lead.
Michèle brings something to this conversation that most governance speakers simply cannot: she has lived it. As Board Chair of the Fiver Children's Foundation, a leader of the Central Park Conservancy's Women's Committee, Grant Committee Co-Chair of Impact 100 NYC, and a practitioner across five nonprofit organizations over more than 20 years, she speaks from inside the work, not above it.
Her sessions for boards and philanthropic leaders are practical, candid, and immediately applicable. No theory. No generic frameworks. Just honest insight earned at the table.
These Sessions Are Ideal For
Nonprofit board retreats and governance training
Philanthropic leadership conferences
Women's giving circles and foundations
BoardSource and sector convening
Corporate civic and community leadership programs
Signature Talks
The Steward Leader: From Board Member to Mission Champion What separates board members who attend from those who truly advance a mission, and how to make that shift. This talk gives board leaders the language, the mindset, and the framework to move from obligation to genuine ownership. For board chairs, executive directors, and governance teams ready to lead at a higher level.
Building Board Culture That Actually Works How to cultivate a board where members feel genuinely invested, give generously, and hold themselves accountable to the mission. Practical, candid, and drawn from real experience in the chair. For executive directors and board leaders who are ready to stop managing their board and start leading with it.
The Philanthropist's Identity: Women, Voice and the Boardroom How women find their authority and their purpose through philanthropic leadership, and why that transformation matters for the organizations fortunate enough to have them at the table. This talk sits at the intersection of confidence, identity, and civic leadership, and works powerfully for both women's giving circles and mixed leadership audiences.
How Nonprofits Can Inspire Donors to Give with Excitement and Generosity Donor relationships should never feel transactional. This talk gives development teams and nonprofit leaders the tools to communicate their mission in a way that genuinely moves people to give, and to give again. Built on the principle that generosity follows trust, and trust follows authentic connection.
Whether you are planning a conference, a board retreat, a leadership summit, or a community gathering, Michèle brings the same thing to every room: honest insight, earned authority, and the kind of presence that stays with people long after they leave.