For Event Organizers & Program Directors
Keynotes and workshops on conflict, negotiation, and the conversations your audience has been avoiding.
Inquire About BookingMost leadership speakers validate what the audience already believes — treating conflict as a "communication breakdown" to be solved with better empathy. Michelle's work starts where that thinking ends. She builds conflict competence: the practical capacity to engage tension without losing clarity, trust, or momentum. Because leaders who can do that don't just run better organizations — they help close the divides the rest of the world is struggling to name.
Drawing on two decades inside prisons, disaster zones, and C-suites, she brings a depth of field that makes her talks feel less like keynotes and more like reckonings.
The Talks
How Leaders Turn Their Biggest Friction Points Into Their Fastest Path Forward
Lessons on Human Behavior from Lebanese Prisons to the International C-Suite
What They Never Taught You About Power, Conflict, and Getting What You Want
How Senior Leaders Use Conflict to Move Faster
Why Partnership Tension is Your #1 Execution Risk
Organizations Michelle has worked with
From disaster operations to boardrooms, the environments change.
The pattern she addresses doesn't.
Why Michelle
Most conflict speakers come from academia or HR. Michelle's path runs through a Lebanese prison, federal disaster operations, and executive suites at some of the world's largest organizations. That range is not incidental — it's the source of her credibility.
Michelle doesn't lecture. She performs, provokes, and earns the room's trust before she asks anything of it. Audiences leave not just with frameworks but with a felt shift in how they think about conflict.
Her methodology is trauma-informed and neuroscience-grounded. That means audiences don't just get inspiration — they get durable tools they can use the next day. The hidden tax of friction is always paid. Michelle's work makes leaders aware they're paying it — and shows them how to stop.
Whether you're planning a keynote, a leadership workshop, or a multi-session program, the first step is a conversation. Use the form below to tell Michelle about your event and a member of her team will be in touch within 48 hours.