Michelle Randall Biography

A management consultant, speaker, and author, Michelle Randall is a leading expert on culturally agile leadership. Michelle’s clients include executives and their teams at Global Fortune 500, high-potential companies, and non-profits, as well as members of the U.S. House of Representatives and other legislative leaders throughout the United States.

Go-to Expert

Michelle is regularly quoted in major business publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report and is one of the most-read expert bloggers for Fast Company Magazine. She is the co-author of two books, Visionary Women Inspiring the World: 12 Paths to Personal Power and Leading Without Compromising Yourself: Unleashing Personal and Professional Mastery in the Political Arena.

Her next book is Cultural Profit: Leveraging cultural agility for profitable growth.

International experience

Michelle’s global approach comes from a lifetime of international experience. In her early twenties she drank black market vodka with young leaders of change in the Soviet Union and backpacked through Southeast Asia. In her professional career she has led global teams spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. She has also hosted C-level delegations from around the world while working at the Bonn headquarters of Deutsche Telekom, the third largest telecommunications company in the world.

Currently based in Silicon Valley, California, Michelle spends several months each year speaking, training, and consulting in Germany and China.

Executive experience

Organizational leaders rely on Michelle as an ally because she understands their world. She has worked at a senior level in the high-tech, telecommunications, and construction industries. In these roles, she was personally responsible for multimillion-dollar revenues, pioneered green business practices, and launched a tablet device ten years before Apple introduced the iPad.

Education

Michelle graduated with academic and leadership honors from the University of California at San Diego. She received her Master of Business Administration, with honors, from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school of Middlebury College. Michelle also pursued business classes at Georg August Universität in Germany and has the highest possible business German-language certification from the Goethe Institute.

Service

Michelle serves on the board of the Community Health Education Training Center. Since 2007 she has been an adviser to the Global Social Venture Competition at the Haas School of Business. The team she mentored in 2010 won first place out of over 100 competitors from around the world.