Michelle Edwards

Michelle Edwards is an award-winning leadership advisor, speaker, and author with nearly thirty years of experience leading people and transforming culture from the inside.

She spent sixteen years inside one of the world's largest advertising holding companies, and she built something most people in her industry thought was impossible. One of the most awarded, most diverse, highest-retention workplace cultures in healthcare advertising. Not by following the traditional playbook, but by rejecting it altogether.

Michelle has been named MM+M Woman to Watch, a PM360 Elite 100 honoree, a Diversity Journal Black Leader Worth Watching, and an Official 40 Over Forty. She has spoken at the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame, the 4As, Women Who Create, COOP, and many other industry conferences and gatherings.

Using her GAS Strategy (Give a Shit), Michelle helps organizations turn leadership into equity, engagement, and real business results. Her first book, *DEI Died. Leadership Lives.: 10 Commandments for Creating Workplace Equity Through Leading with Heart*, is the working manual for leaders who actually want their people to thrive — every person, not just the comfortable ones.

Michelle lives in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, and her dog.