Operations
Michele’s operational expertise comes from her 15 years in industry, including managing engineering and manufacturing functions at Intel, a company known for its operational excellence as a core competency. She also draws from her formal education in manufacturing from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The University of Michigan. Whether you need help streamlining your processes, eliminating waste, improving capacity, downsizing, or any other operations challenge, Michele can help you achieve operational excellence.
Leadership
Leadership is one of Michele’s key passions. She was well regarded as an effective, results and people-oriented leader in her corporate career and has successfully completed a number of leadership training programs. Consequently, Michele has developed her own unique leadership style and has a passion for developing leadership in others. She delivers customized leadership training seminars and coaches leaders one on one to develop their leadership skills. She also offers leadership assessments, hiring assistance, and coaching/consulting for leaders with skill gaps.
Culture
Culture is the personality of an organization. Culture can either contribute to the success or the failure of the organization. Winning cultures are well articulated, understood by all employees, and consciously developed by the leaders. Let Michele help you assess your company culture, design it, or revive it.
Teamwork/High Performance Teams
Teamwork may be the ultimate competitive advantage. Companies that inspire, train, and reward teamwork inevitably improve their profit margins. Michele has managed and coached dozens of technical and non-technical teams. In working directly with your teams, she can quickly identify key teamwork problems and address them, and she can develop the team as well as individual teamwork skills. Michele is trained and experienced in building High Performance Teams, self-sustaining, high results teams that self-correct and self-generate. Seminars and coaching in High Performance Team are also available.
Organizational Change and Transitions
It has been said that there are only two things for sure in this life, one is death and the other is change. Managing change is a necessary and important part of business. From downsizing to reorganizing, Michele can help you manage your company change with excellence.
Diversity/Multiculturalism and Retention
Diversity and multiculturalism have become the buzz word for the companies trying to attract and retain top talent. Managing diversity is about enabling each person to bring their personal best to the business. As a manager and leader well known for her ability to lead large, diverse organizations, Michele excels at making the concept of levering diversity a reality in organizations. She specializes in gender issues. If your company is suffering from diversity issues, retention or is striving to become diversity leader, you will benefit from Michele's comprehensive approach to building and leading a diverse workforce.
Parrish Partners
Coaching & Consulting
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gahndi
"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act but a habit."
Excellence then is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle
"Change is inevitable, growth is optional"
Mac Anderson