Barb is an international Author, Consultant, and Trainer.  Her professional career started in Human Resources, culminating in the role of International Staffing Manager position at a Fortune 50 corporation.  In managing this organization’s first field and headquarters layoff Barb discovered that her experience could be employed to support the struggling “employee survivors” of organizational change and guide organization and personal transition journeys.

Barb has coached hundreds of displaced and derailed workers through employment and career changes. She has helped business leaders deal with the change consequences that always follow significant organization disruptions. Utilizing the change management best practices of Prosci, Conner and others, Barb has directed large-scale organization change initiatives to proactively mitigate the negative impacts of those significant transitions. And recognizing that "organizations don't change, people do" (Hiatt, Prosci) she has trained many associates to build personal resilience and change hardiness.

Most recently, Barb took her change expertise and expanded it into a broad organization development initiative that included competency framework development, leadership coaching, and the design/delivery of a global program to produce professional consultants empowered to address their clients’ needs in the changing workplace.

Barb and her partners are ready to lend their expertise to businesses and individuals seeking to build resilience, create high-trust relationships, and navigate change effectively.

Michelle’s focus is on the development of professional, competency-based behaviors in the areas of communication, negotiation, presentation and leadership.
Her work reflects her belief that each individual is unique and, in that uniqueness, has the potential to go farther than many believe to be possible. Her goal is to empower that growth and realization of personal potential.

Her career has spanned a every size organization, from running her own businesses as well and working in start-up companies to international companies of 45,000+ employees and a broad range of functional areas.

Three distinct careers are evident in her professional journey: (1) operations management and client support at the senior director level; (2) private higher education in Central European region, leading, managing and owning multiple organizations; and (3) most recently, with Teradata, as a Senior Learning Consultant and Project Manager for the global organization.

She’s lived and worked in 21 cities in 8 countries, residing been in Prague, Czech Republic for the past 18 years.