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Michelle Redfern is a global powerhouse, she has chaired events and led our personal development programmes for women across the world within our membership. We love working with Michelle, she always pitches it right by challenging, engaging and enabling our diverse audience

My first introduction to Michelle was in one of her courses. I was immediately struck by her unique blend of sincerity, empathy, practicality, passion and corporate professionalism. It is this mix that resounds so well with our organisation she is able to engage with and relate to people at all levels. She has been a great ally as we navigate our strategy. Central to Michelle's ethos is that she is well prepared and professional and her word is her bond. You can rely on Michelle to get to the heart of an issue and propose workable, savvy solutions.

Michelle worked with us to understand our culture, our leaders and our business. She developed with us our Women’s Mentoring Program that was much more targeted towards our participants needs and our business environment, that focuses on The Missing 33% - the critical piece missing in so many women's mentoring programs out there. She does this because she genuinely wants to drive results, impact and change.

This was the first personal development workshop I have participated in since starting my business in 2016. The content and delivery of the program was brilliant. Michelle is a master in her field and clearly passionate about inspiring the attendees. This allowed us to be engaged, to communicate honestly without judgement. I gained a comprehensive understanding of how I can improve personally and professionally, and how to drive this growth across all levels of the organisation. Michelle inspired many of our leaders to take action within their own business and achieve great result.

Michelle is a trailblazer who helped me to unleash my inner trailblazer! Her 'no bones about it' approach, combined with her care and witty humour made it a pleasure to work together. I'd recommend Michelle to any professional woman who is looking to increase their impact and influence, as well as hone the art of networking.

I highly recommend Michelle's Advancing Women Leadership Program. The program's content and process are accessible, insightful and challenging, delivered with Michelle's refreshingly affable and ever-supportive manner. Thank you, Michelle, - this program has and will continue to impact on my leadership and networking in positive ways.

I am a proud graduate of Michelle’s Mentoring 2 Advance course! The combination of Michelle’s industry insight, confident facilitating and expert program content made this experience relevant and useful for me as an already skilled leader. The group support model was effective in challenging constant personal and professional growth. This program, and any other opportunity to work with Michelle, comes highly recommended.

The Advancing Women program was one of the best investments of my time in 2017. It has provided me clarity and confidence on what I stand for, what I offer and what I want to be known for. Thought provoking content, very well facilitated and overall a great bunch of women. Highly recommend for anyone to help them reflect on their career journey and define a meaningful career path for the future. Thank you again Michelle.

I learned so much about leadership, in my own life as well as in my career, from Michelle's mentoring workshop. Because of her generous spirit in sharing her knowledge and expertise, I'm confident that I have what it takes to be a leader and I understand what differences make an effective leader. All topics covered were extremely helpful and delivered in a supportive and safe environment. By the end of the workshop, I was a different person and I genuinely felt I was in a better position to transition into leadership roles. She knew the right questions to ask to draw out how we felt about where we were in our careers, where we wanted to be and the self-awareness, we needed to turn those ambitions into actions and results.

Just wanted to say a big thank you for the incredible sessions and insights over the last few months. I was really inspired and particularly loved how you demonstrated that it is possible to achieve concrete business outcomes while also having passion and a commitment to values. Some my key takeaways are remembering to amplify the voices of women and their achievements in all contexts and making sure women (including me) are ‘in the know’ and own their expertise and are positioned to contribute more effectively. It has been amazing going on this journey with the broader group and hearing their experiences and learnings. So yes, while you might be planting seeds for trees you may never see, rest assured, the growth of those plants into trees is definitely underway.

Michelle has been pivotal in accelerating Visy's journey in the diversity space.  Michelle's expertise in this area, combined with her commercial background in senior operational roles and boards meant she 'spoke our language' so was able to help design and deliver a program that engaged our most senior leaders to make purposeful and impactful change.

Michelle's workshop facilitation was a huge success. The team left the workshop feeling refreshed and inspired...and also knowing a whole lot more about each other! Michelle's approach was exactly what was needed - warm and approachable, yet firm enough to keep the workshop moving to achieve outcomes. Thanks for your help Michelle.

Michelle truly partnered with us to understand where we were at on our diversity journey. Using her operational and business experience, combined with her results orientated approach, she gets buy in from senior leaders and resonates with leaders and teams across all levels of the organisation. Michelle inspired many of our leaders to take action within their own business and achieve great results.

Michelle is a consummate professional and a leading expert in diversity, inclusion and advancement of women sport. She is a thought leader, a captivating keynote speaker, an engaging facilitator brings the best out of people and a well-researched panel moderator who holds enlivens panels helping contributors deliver thought provoking content. Above all Michelle’s warmth, passion and good humour helps her meaningfully connect with audiences and women she mentors and develops. Needless to say, I highly recommend her!

Michelle recently spoke at our Women in Franchising event on how to “Be Your Own CEO”. Her energy, insights and thought-provoking presentation were fantastic, and feedback after the event was overwhelmingly positive. I highly recommend Michelle for any speaking engagements especially around diversity and women in business. Thanks Michelle!

Michelle Redfern was a guest speaker at the SEDA College International Women's Day event. From the moment she began speaking she captured the attention of our students with her honest and down to earth manner. Her initial activity had them locked in on their competitive nature and ensured they remained invested in the whole presentation. Michelle was able to engage them with real life examples that resonated with the students and helped them to understand the challenges faced by women today in our society. Michelle’s presentation was really tailored to her audience and provided some great insight to the challenges of Women in sport and the massive potential for sport to grow with inclusive practices. We would recommend Michelle to anyone who is looking to move the conversation about gender diversity to the next level.

Michelle Redfern is a global powerhouse, she has chaired events and led our personal development programmes for women across the world within our membership. We love working with Michelle, she always pitches it right by challenging, engaging and enabling our diverse audience.

Global Women Fresh is proud to be partnering with Michelle Redfern on achieving gender equality in the global fresh industry. Over the last two years In conjunction with Michelle, we have inspired, connected and empowered more than 500 women all over the world. Both organizations share a common vision of the world, in where women can not wait 200 years to achieve gender equality. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done, nonetheless we are confident this kind of partnerships are critical to close the gap around the world

Michelle is a self-motivated, customer oriented and results driven and ethical professional. Michelle exhibits the highest level of professionalism, integrity, reliability , commitment to excellence and fairness and is easy to work with. Michelle has a unique ability to create both a supportive, enjoyable, challenging and stimulating learning environment for those that work with her. Michelle designed and delivered a highly successful State wide industry professional development program in an extraordinary COVID-19 pandemic affected year. One of its critical elements of success was Michelle’s adaptable and engaging style enabling a flexible program management approach to this highly valued program. I would highly recommend working with Michelle.