Professional Profile:

Michelle Sugerman has 20+ years of worldwide coaching experience. Her results-driven style was forged through consulting in project management, technology, and franchise operations, including a start-up that sold for $2.7 billion. Michelle partners with executive leaders to build high-performing teams, align culture, and scale growth through strategic planning, disciplined accountability, and service excellence. Known for genuine warmth and grounded presence, she moves executives and their organizations faster toward ambitious goals.

Key Executive Coaching Expertise:

• Reports tangible and intangible returns through productivity gains, organizational strength, cost reduction, quality of work products, and retention totaling a $331M+ ROI
• Enhances leadership presence resulting in more organizational visibility and influence, improved confidence and decision-making, and increased organizational capacity.
• Specializes in technology, financial services, legal services, and healthcare industries while improving stakeholder relationships, cross-functional alignment, and strategic execution.
• Coaches with cascading organizational impact by strengthening team dynamics, improving engagement scores, resolving conflict, developing collaborations, and empowering teams.
• Empowers international and online teams through events inspired by Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Chamine’s Positive Intelligence, and Stanier’s The Coaching Habit

Education and Credentials:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• Certified Executive Coach, Center for Executive Coaching
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)
• B.B.A., Organizational Management & Personnel / Human Resource Management (B.S. Psychology), University of Colorado

Coaching Approach:

Michelle is driven to help leaders convert insight into action through a direct, no-nonsense coaching style that balances humor with a proven framework. She relentlessly blends encouragement and challenge to inspire the ‘whole leader’ toward complete authenticity.