Michelle Gilchrist

CCHL Leadership Faculty

Michelle brings authentic presence to her role as a long tenured and experienced leader, LEADS coach and facilitator, creating environments for others to learn, grow, and lead with courage, competence and creativity.

Michelle’s engagement style has been coined “energy in motion” and demonstrates respect for people and their deeply held values, intense curiosity, cultural responsiveness and spontaneity. Her coach approach offers a pathway for leaders to develop relationships, partnerships and teams that have the courage and capacity to reach beyond traditional ways of thinking and doing, to achieve more. Michelle is a strategic partner and organizational development consultant who understands the complexities that leaders face. She has first-hand experience leading large-scale organizational development strategies

Whether she is working with Boards, C-Suite leaders, Senior, Mid-Level or Front-Line, her diverse volume of knowledge and workplace exposures is paired with uncanny intuition and humor that bring relatable scenarios to life. These attributes anchor Michelle’s ability to connect with people at every position within an organization to move situations and relationships beyond theory and into the workplace in a hands-on, practical way.

Michelle is the founder and principal leader of a people development and strategy partner consulting firm. In this arena she brings together the knowledge and lived experiences of a 35+ year career inventory that spans public and private sector, media, entrepreneurial sole proprietorship and non-profit community-based organizations. Specialty strengths and services are supported by professional coaching and facilitation credentials earned through International Coach Federation, Canadian College of Health Leaders, Crucial Learning, Government of Saskatchewan (Certified Lean Practitioner and Coach), Conscious Dying Institute (Workplace Grief, End of Life Doula and Grief Support).