Hello! I’m Michelle.

I am a certified teacher with a degree in Speech Communications. I attended Baylor University and Texas A&M. My career has taken me down many roads including: teacher, speaker, author and consultant.

I am a consultant with the Highlands Company. Our software is based on the science of Johnson O’Connor which has been around since 1922. I use the Clifton Strengths assessment and have found it is a perfect compliment to the Highlands Ability Battery. The clarity and language Clifton Strengths brings to individuals and groups is invaluable.

I have worked with high school and college age people for decades. I have had concentrated time in Young Life and the Classical Christian movement. The last decade I have gotten to work with a wide variety of people of all stages of life and cultures through a non-profit I founded named PONDER. It was during these last ten years that I have seen the power that comes from self knowledge and the language that goes with it.

My philosophy

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 so many other places.

When you know who you are, you can pull up a seat. You are able to enter the conversation confidently and communicating what you know and what you can contribute. It’s there 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 into families. Because everyone should know what they “bring to the table”.