Diagnosing what's costing your organization — and prescribing what actually works to boost revenue, rebuild trust, and build stronger, more inclusive teams.

MICHELLE COURTNEY BERRY, BIOGRAPHY

Michelle Courtney Berry, named a Top 20 Most Empowering Woman in America by Womenpreneur Magazine— alongside Michelle Obama and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — is one of the most distinctive voices in organizational leadership today. She is a researcher who speaks from data, a storyteller who speaks from experience, and a global strategist who speaks from decades of results.

As Founder and CEO of Courtney Consulting Enterprises, LLC and creator of The Workplace Doc™, Michelle has spent over 25 years helping organizations understand what's driving burnout, disengagement, and turnover — and what actually moves the needle. Her work sits at the rare intersection of doctoral-level scholarship, C-suite consulting experience, and the kind of lived credibility that makes audiences lean forward and stay there.

Michelle has delivered over 5,000 keynotes across the U.S., U.K., Canada, Africa, and Mexico. She has spoken at SHRM, Virgin Pulse's national Thrive Summit, Mindvalley, LegalZoom, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and dozens of HR leadership gatherings, executive retreats, and women's leadership conferences. She co-moderated Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot Summit. She has shared stages with Maya Angelou, the Dalai Lama, and Howard Zinn. She has been featured on Good Morning America, in O Magazine, and across 200+ media outlets.

Her research is original and actionable. As a doctoral candidate in Leadership Studies at LSU Shreveport — building on a Master's in Organizational and Risk Communication from Cornell University — Michelle studies the specific leadership conditions that either grow or diminish the people inside an organization. Her findings reframe the conversation entirely: what organizations label a "people problem" is often a leadership conditions problem. And that reframe changes everything about how leaders intervene.

Michelle is the bestselling author of Keeping Calm in Chaos: How to Work Well, Live Well, and Love Abundantly — No Matter What, a certified NLP Master Coach, Reiki Master Teacher, trauma reduction expert, former elected official, and former Tompkins County Poet Laureate. She was a Presidential Scholar and Commencement Speaker at Binghamton University.

Clients describe her as the speaker who held a room of executives in rapt attention — and delivered, in the words of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a presentation the team was still talking about long after it ended.