The Coach

Michele Parrish is a passionate executive coach with a talent for enabling clients to achieve breakthroughs in their business and personal lives. As a leader and manager with 20 years of business experience, Michele speaks her clients’ language and understands their challenging work environments. She has helped hundreds of individuals and teams overcome barriers and achieve their goals. She has been highlighted as a success story in both the Arizona Republic and the Scottsdale Tribune newspapers.

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Michele holds two masters degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one in management and one in materials science engineering. She received her undergraduate degree in industrial engineering at the University of Michigan. Michele has graduated from several advanced leadership programs, including MIT Leaders for Manufacturing, Intel Leadership Development Forum, Arizona Leadership 2000, and Chandler Leadership Institute. She received her coach training from Corporate Coach University, a leading global provider of business and corporate coach training programs and services. Michele is certified in coaching by the International Coaching Federation and is a member of the Relationship Coaching Institute.

Clients describe Michele’s coaching style as positive, energizing, and holistic. He customizes her coaching style for each client and integrates coaching methodologies to ensure the fastest time to results. Michele leverages the latest in brain science research to give her clients “the edge.” Michele is very flexible for her clients and often supports busy executives with heavy travel schedules. She enables each client to define and achieve success for themselves in both business and personal life.

Her areas of expertise include:

• effective leadership and management of global teams
• achieving world-class operations
• effective change management
• setting culture and building high performance teams
• leveraging diversity and embracing gender differences
• building a strong leadership core
• navigating the political landscape
• discovering your purpose and defining your personal vision
• improving relationships at work and at home
• achieving executive work-life balance