Biography
Michelle K. Rios, MA, PCC
Michelle brings more than 17 years of combined experience in the art of Human and Organizational Effectiveness through coaching, consulting, training, and leadership development. She has accumulated over 1,200 hours of Executive Coaching with individual, team and organizational clients, and coached corporate clients throughout the United States as well as Australia, China, England, India and Ireland. She has held a variety of management and leadership positions in the corporate, non-profit, and government sectors that has allowed her to leverage perspectives from internal and external vantage points.
Education
- Post-Graduate Certificate: Executive Development —
Capella University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology - MA Human Resource Development – Webster University
- MA Counseling – Webster University
- Professional Coach Certification (PCC) International Coach Federation
- Certified Life Coach (CLC) – Institute for Life Coach
Training
Certifications
- NLP Practitioner
- Emotional Intelligence EQi Assessment Series EQi and
EQi 360 - Hogan Assessment Series
- PeopleMap™ System
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Professional Organizations
- PDX Executive Coaches Circle (co-founder)
- International Coach Federation
- International Association of Coaches
- Society of Consulting Psychology
- Society for Human Resource Management
- American Society for Training & Development
- Organization Development Network
Coaching Specialties
Transformational leadership, women leaders, observational coaching, translating feedback into sustainable behavior change, personalities and emotions in the workplace, strengths-based management practices, career transition, change management strategies, effective communication skills, conflict management, relationship management, team-building, body/mind awareness, and work/life harmony.
Michelle’s authenticity quickly establishes a trusting relationship. She develops a protected space for dialogue that allows her to partner with the client to explore new ideas, discover opportunities, transform paradigms and create sustainable change.
She supports individuals as they learn to wield their innate power and overcome limitations to successfully attain peak levels of performance and satisfaction in all areas of their personal and professional lives.
Michelle has assisted numerous executives and leaders to fully ignite their potential by transforming their inner world first; In turn, their outer world moves naturally into place.
