Great Content Matters. Great Delivery Changes People.
Bring Michelle to Your Organization
Keynotes, workshops, trainings, retreats, facilitation, and consulting designed around your people, your needs, and the change you want to create.
Whether you know exactly what you need or simply know that something needs to change, we can start there.
25+ yrs
Professional Development
-524+
Years in Professional Development
-419,411+
Hours Speaking and Facilitating
-168
Countries
2 to -104,805
Audiences
IACET
Accredited Provider
More Than a Canned Presentation
Michelle brings decades of experience in coaching, education, leadership, professional development, research, and facilitation into every engagement. But she does not arrive with a scripted talk and simply hope it fits. She starts with curiosity.
What is happening with your people?
What are you trying to accomplish?
Where are you getting stuck?
What would make this investment truly worthwhile?
From there, we design an experience around you.
What Can We Create Together?
Every organization, audience, and event is different. Your experience should be too. Michelle is available for:
Engagements can range from a single keynote or workshop to full day and multiday experiences, customized training series, retreats, or longer term consulting relationships.
The question is not simply, what does Michelle speak about. A better question is, what do your people need, and what can we create together to help them get there?
Michelle's Signature Body of Work
The Five Levels of Coaching
Moving Coaching From Something We Do to a Capacity We Develop
One of Michelle's primary bodies of work is the Five Levels of Coaching, a developmental framework for understanding how coaches grow in their capacity to create meaningful and transformational change. It helps individuals and organizations move beyond asking, are we coaching, toward far more powerful questions: How effectively are we coaching? What kind of coaching is happening? What capacity have our coaches developed? What is needed to move from structured or relational coaching into skillful, transformational, and ultimately integrated coaching? And what happens when an entire organization builds a true culture of coaching?
Potential areas of focus
The Five Levels of Coaching can be introduced through a keynote or workshop, or become the foundation for a deeper training or consulting engagement.
Experience Matters. So Does Knowing What to Do With It.
Michelle brings an unusual combination of research, real world leadership experience, coaching expertise, professional development, and thousands of hours actually standing in front of people and helping them learn. She understands the research. She also understands what happens when real people walk into a real room carrying real problems. Her job is to connect the two.
More Than a Presentation
Michelle has spent more than two decades customizing professional development, training, coaching, and facilitation. She does not simply show up and talk for an hour. Every engagement begins with understanding your needs. That may include conversations with organizers or leadership, a needs analysis, learning about the participants, identifying existing challenges, and determining what success should actually look like.
And sometimes the need you first identify is not the only need we discover. That is okay. Michelle is known for being deeply present to what is happening before, during, and after an engagement. If another need emerges, she has the depth of experience to respond, adapt, and help your people move forward.
Because the goal is not to deliver a presentation. The goal is to create an experience that makes a difference.
We Are Not Here Just to Have a Great Day
We absolutely want your people to have a great time. We want them laughing, talking, thinking, participating, connecting, and occasionally looking at the clock wondering how the time went so quickly. But that is not enough. If everyone leaves saying that was a great speaker, and nothing changes afterward, we have missed an enormous opportunity. Michelle believes meaningful professional development should lead to action.
Your participants should leave knowing:
Have a really good time. Do really serious work. Create change that continues long after we leave the room.
The Experience Can Begin Before Michelle Arrives
Sometimes the most powerful event experiences do not begin when the microphone turns on. Depending on your needs, Michelle and the Grow By 1 team shape the entire journey, before, during, and after your event. The goal is not simply a memorable day. It is momentum that continues long after we leave the room.
By the time Michelle enters the room, your participants may already be thinking, questioning, reflecting, and ready to go deeper.
What People Experience
"[TESTIMONIAL 1 — engaging, enjoyable learning]"
"[TESTIMONIAL 2 — simplified a complex idea, made it actionable]"
"[TESTIMONIAL 3 — created change that lasted beyond the event]"
Your Event. Your People. Your Needs.
There is no standard Michelle Burkhard speaking package, because there is no standard audience. A 60 minute keynote for 2,000 people is different from a retreat with 20 leaders. A virtual workshop is different from an on site training. Introducing the Five Levels of Coaching is different from helping an organization build an entire culture of coaching. Audience size, format, location, desired outcomes, preparation, resources, follow up, and the complexity of the engagement all matter.
That is why we do not begin with a price list. We begin with a conversation. Tell us what you are planning, what you know, what you are still figuring out, and what you would love to accomplish. We will take it from there.
Speaking and Consulting Inquiry
Tell us a little about your event or organization. You do not need to have everything figured out yet. Give us what you know, and we will help you determine the next step.
What Happens Next?
Once you submit your inquiry, Amy and the Grow By 1 team will review the information you provided, including your proposed date, audience, needs, and type of engagement. You can expect a response within 2 to 3 business days. If it looks like Michelle may be a good fit, we will help you determine the next step, which may include scheduling a conversation with Michelle to learn about your organization, your people, and what you are hoping to accomplish.
Not sure whether your event fits? Reach out anyway. Sometimes the best engagements begin with, we know we need something, we are just not sure what. That is a perfectly good place to start.