Dr. Michelle King: Corporate Culture
Dr. Michelle King is a workplace culture and gender equality expert who helps leaders build inclusive organizations where belonging, performance, and equity drive measurable business success.
- Highlights:
- Global authority on workplace culture and gender equality
- Author of The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers that Are Holding Women Back at Work
- Founder, The Culture Practice
- Former Director of Inclusion, Netflix
- Formats:
Keynote Speaker and Inclusion Strategy Advisor
- Audiences:
C suite executives, HR and DEI leaders, global organizations, policymakers, and institutions committed to building cultures of belonging and equality.
- Outcomes:
- Clear understanding of systemic barriers impacting workplace equality
- Practical roadmap to redesign culture for inclusion and belonging
- Leadership strategies that align equity with performance and growth
- Travels from: Weybridge, UK
- **Fee range: On Request
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Dr. Michelle King is a globally recognized expert on organizational culture and gender equality at work. With more than two decades of international experience, she partners with leaders and companies to build inclusive workplaces where everyone can thrive. Her research shows that solving inequality requires redesigning workplace cultures so they work for all employees, not just a few.
She is the author of the bestselling, award winning book The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers that Are Holding Women Back at Work and host of the popular podcast The Fix. Her insights have been featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, CNN Business, Fortune, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Time, Business Insider, The Times, Daily Mail, and LinkedIn Editors.
Dr. King is the founder of The Culture Practice, a global consultancy providing assessment, leadership development, and inclusion coaching. She is a Senior Advisor to the UN Foundation’s Girl Up campaign, leading the NextGen Leadership Development Program, and heads a global Leadership Inclusion Academy with Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.
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Dr. Michelle King is a global expert on culture and equality at work. She is an author, podcast host, writer, TEDX speaker and thought leader who helps companies and leaders build belonging at work.
Michelle King is a globally recognised expert on gender equality and organisational culture. Based on over a decade’s worth of research Michelle believes that to tackle inequality we need to fix workplace cultures so that they work for everyone.
She is the host of a popular podcast called The Fix. Michelle is the author of the bestselling, award-winning book: The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers that are Holding Women Back at Work. Michelle has been featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, CNN Business, Fortune, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Time, Business Insider, The Times, Daily Mail and LinkedIn Editors.
Dr. Michelle King is the founder of The Culture Practice, a global consultancy that provides leaders with the assessment, development, and inclusion coaching needed to build cultures of equality at work.
In addition, Michelle is a Senior Advisor to the UN Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign, where she leads the NextGen Leadership Development Program, which enables young women to navigate and overcome the barriers to their success. She also heads up a global Leadership Inclusion Academy with Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.
Prior to this Dr. Michelle King was the Director of Inclusion at Netflix, and before that she was the head of UN Women’s Global Innovation Coalition for Change, which includes managing over 30 private sector partnerships as well to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Michelle has two decades of international experience working in the private sector.
Michelle is a published award-winning academic with a Masters in Industrial-Organisational Psychology, an MBA, a Postgraduate Degree in Journalism and she is due to complete her Ph.D. in 2021.
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