Hello! I’m Michelle

People fascinate me. The fact that all of us are completely individual and unique is remarkable.

All people have something to add, something to give, something to do that no one else can. I tend to use the phrase “what people bring to the table.” This proverbial “table” represents a place. A place where one can pull up a chair and contribute. Life is full of “tables.” We have tables at work, at school, in churches, in organizations, in families, and in so many other places.

When you know who you are, you can pull up a seat. You enter the conversation with confidence and communicate what you know and what you can contribute. It’s there that you see others’ strengths, and the magic of collaboration begins.

My job is to get you to the table. With self-knowledge and the language to communicate it, you can join in the many conversations that will happen along the way.

So let’s start a conversation. A discussion about the importance of knowing your strengths. I hope to discover ways we can bring these important conversations into schools and families. Because everyone should know what they “bring to the table.”

Background & Experience

I am a certified teacher with a degree in Speech Communications from Texas A&M University. My professional path has included work as a teacher, speaker, author, and consultant.

I work as a consultant with The Highlands Company, whose assessment tools are grounded in the science of Johnson O’Connor, developed in 1922. I also use the CliftonStrengths assessment, which I have found to be a strong complement to the Highlands Ability Battery. The clarity and shared language CliftonStrengths provides to individuals and groups is invaluable.

My experience includes decades of work with high school and college-aged students, including focused time in Young Life and within the Classical Christian movement. Over the past ten years, I have also worked with people of all ages and backgrounds through a nonprofit I founded called PONDER. It was during this season that I consistently saw the power of self-knowledge and the importance of having language people can actually use.