Michelle is a speaker, author, coach, entrepreneur, and an ever-evolving Badass Leader. The people-part can be the most challenging for many leaders. It certainly was for her. Her wake-up call came in the form of a cataclysmic leadership failure. She very quickly learned to appreciate the profound impact an unconscious leader has on people, teams, and organizational health and performance. The significance and value of a team became abundantly clear, as did the critical importance and necessity for her to immediately begin evolving as a leader. This painfully humbling experience set the course correction for what would become a lifelong hunger for leadership growth and contribution—a self-prescribed reparation in many ways, shared through her 12 Leadership Lessons. Michelle looks forward to sharing her thrills of victory and agonies of defeat, with a goal of supporting you in unlocking the art of leading like a Badass!

Michelle Reines is the founder of MDR Coaching & Consulting, Inc., and creator of the unconventional Badass Leader brand. She’s innovative, results-oriented and has a coveted reputation of helping teams exceed expectations in highly competitive, distressed, or volatile business climates. Her history of strengths encompasses extensive people aptitudes from leading and developing large, dynamic, and varied teams across multiple marketplaces. She possesses over 34 years of business acumen running assets in excess of .5 billion; high-volume and velocity sales management expertise, customer experience prowess, facilities management oversight and operational expertise.

Michelle is both excited and grateful to be at a point in her career where she can focus her 9th start-up "Badass Leader" on supporting the industries that feed her soul - bringing friends and families together through ADVENTURE, FOOD & PLAY!