Career Center

Location: Le Sueur, Minnesota

• Gain clarity and fresh perspective to move forward.

• Create a compelling personal vision.

• Develop a focus plan congruent with your unique strengths and values.

• Have sacred space just to be.

• Work with a committed, compassionate coach who holds you as infinitely resourceful.

• Regaining and renewing clarity, focus and confidence.

• Feeling inspired and energized by honoring and building on natural strengths.

• Overcoming analysis paralysis and taking inspired action to move forward.

• Having a vision to work smarter, with measurable benchmarks to achieve your goals.

• Aligning with highest values.

• "I am so happy to have had the opportunity and I believe I will look back at the very positive experience of working with Michelle as an important milestone in my personal life and professional career. --R.H., Information Technology Systems Director

• "It is very valuable and beneficial to work with Michelle. She’s helped me to uncover my priorities and I now feel in control of my destiny and am able to balance a professional career and a rewarding family life. --L.P., Small Business Owner

• "Michelle’s style is one of sincerity, grace and wisdom all lined with accountability for success. I cannot say enough about the high level and quality of coaching Michelle brings into the picture. I have never been so effected nor have I ever experienced this caliber of coaching. --J.F., National Training and Development Manager

• Learner - I am committed to ongoing learning for the sake of mastery as a coaching professional. I also partner with my clients as learners to move from ignorance to competence, expanding the way they see, move and act to get the results they want.

• Grounded - My earthy, nature-loving style provides value in aiding clients to become centered and slow down the frenetic pace of their lives. I am committed to being present so that they may also be conscious and present.

• Maximizer - I am naturally inclined as coach to help clients play bigger, to stretch toward excellence and achieve results on their terms.

• Lightness and humor - Gentle irreverence and a laugh now and then helps to lighten the load.

• Compassion - I hold huge, compassionate heart’s space for clients to be authentic and explore who they can become.

We all have unique, innate strengths and gifts that we bring to the world. I partner with my clients to maximize those strengths, to focus and better manage their energy, to make alive choices and take inspired actions for a rich and rewarding personal and professional life.

• Leaders in the midst of career transition or considering it.

• Business Owners and Executives wanting to enhance productivity, fulfillment or life balance.

• Sales and Direct Sales professionals desiring greater results.

• Coaching experience and education: Certified by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach and by Coaches Training Institute as a Certified Professional Co-Active™ Coach; Graduate of Newfield Network: Foundations of Ontological Learning; Graduate of The Arbinger Institute “The Choice in Coaching: Arbinger Mastery Training for Coaches”; Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst in DISC Style Analysis.

• Professional background: 3 years Leadership and Business Development Coach for INC. 500 organization; Founded Design Your Destiny professional coaching services in 1999; 14 years in sales and key account management in international business.

• Education: B.S. in Business Administration and Spanish