Michelle Hoover is a leadership strategist, facilitator, consultant, and ICF-certified coach. She and her teams have designed, delivered, and facilitated learning programs for more than 15,000 participants across five continents in her 17 years in executive development. Michelle has worked with Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries, including technology, energy, consumer goods, beauty, luxury and professional and financial services, among others, on their leadership and diversity, equity, and inclusion needs.  She also served as a leader in a venture-backed educational startup, serving as General Assembly’s first product leader for the company’s corporate training division, developing the core strategic asset on which The Adecco Group’s $400M acquisition of the company was based.

Prior to founding Baem, Michelle established the Leadership and Learning function at Audible, an Amazon company, launching the company’s first suite of management-development learning initiatives and led two years of 100 percent year-over-year growth ($6M to $26M) at General Assembly overseeing four global functions responsible for product and service quality in the delivery of online and in-person learning programs on leading and operating in the digital age.

Michelle also served as Director of Executive Education for the Beijing-based Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and spent eight years in several roles at Duke Corporate Education, at the time the No. 1 provider of custom executive education as ranked by The Financial Times and BusinessWeek.

A former newspaper reporter and editor, Michelle earned her B.A. in journalism from Penn State University and her Ed.M. from Harvard University in higher education, where she focused on organizational and leadership theory.

Michelle lives in New York, where she enjoys Hamilton, Central Park, people-watching, and the creativity and energy that emanate from the city.

Coaching Certifications: CPC, ICF ACC