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A speaker who tells the truth your audience has been waiting to hear.
Michelle brings business coaching, financial clarity, and leadership transformation to every stage. She does not do surface level. She gives your audience the honest conversation, the framework, and the clarity to actually move forward.
Michelle Mitchell
Business and Financial Coach | Speaker | Trainer
Michelle does not just talk about leadership. She has lived the financial and operational reality of building a business from the inside out. She brings the truth others avoid and frameworks audiences can use the same week they hear them.
Live Podcast Co-Host
The Real Money Coach
Michelle co-hosted this weekly live show for four years on YouTube, Facebook, and Radio One Praise Charlotte 100.9, bringing honest money conversations to founders, accountants, and service-based business owners every week.
Watch an episode →Speaking Topics
Leadership · Growth
CEO Leadership and Sustainable Growth
Most founders are running their business without fully stepping into the CEO role. This talk unpacks what it actually means to lead from the front, not just manage from the middle, and how that shift changes everything from decisions and team culture to profit and peace of mind.
Audience leaves with: A clear picture of what CEO-level leadership looks like in practice and one shift to make immediately.
Team · Delegation · Bottlenecks
Delegation, Team Trust, and Getting Out of the Bottleneck Role
If everything keeps coming back to you, the problem is not your team. It is the system. This talk walks founders through why delegation breaks down, what trust actually requires, and how to build a team that runs without them in the middle of everything.
Audience leaves with: A bottleneck diagnostic and a delegation framework they can apply the same week.
Operations · Confidence · Small Teams
Operational Confidence for Women Founders Leading Small Teams
Leading a small team requires a different kind of confidence, one built on clear systems, honest communication, and knowing your role as the leader versus the doer. This talk gives women founders the mindset shift and the practical tools to lead with less friction and more results.
Audience leaves with: A clearer picture of their leadership role and a practical approach to running a small team with more confidence and less chaos.
Finance · Mindset · Business Impact
Your Money Story and How It Runs Your Business
The beliefs you carry about money do not stay in your personal life. They show up in how you price, hire, invest, and lead. This talk helps founders and financial professionals name the money story running in the background and start replacing it with one that supports growth and long-term stability.
Audience leaves with: Awareness of the money story shaping their decisions and a starting framework for rewriting the beliefs that are quietly limiting their business.
What Audiences Say
Net Promoter Score
Scaling New Heights, 2024
Learning Objectives Met
Scaling New Heights, 2024
Instructor Effectiveness
Scaling New Heights, 2024
"Can not say enough good things. Michelle was confident, engaging, kind, funny, and amazing at presenting boundaries and ways to think of delegation that made it much less intimidating and much more approachable."
Scaling New Heights 2024 attendee
"This session easily could have been a 2-hour session. Would love this in a workshop format."
Scaling New Heights 2024 attendee
"What a great session! Thank you for sharing your journey and giving us some really practical things to incorporate in our own firms so that we can step away."
Scaling New Heights 2024 attendee
"This session was very actionable and engaging. Especially appreciated on the afternoon of the last day!"
Scaling New Heights 2025 attendee
GrowCon, Keynote Speaker, 2025
Scaling New Heights, Featured Speaker, 2024
Event Organizer Testimonial
Toni Harris Taylor
Host, Viral Networking Conference
Topic presented: Make Money Flow Before You Go Viral
"Michelle took a topic that most entrepreneurs do not want to talk about — accounting and running a profitable business — and she made it fun. She made it light. She has a real passion for helping entrepreneurs build profitable businesses. If you are looking for an engaging speaker who can bring your audience up around their bookkeeping, accounting, and profitability, bring Michelle Mitchell to your next event."
Toni Harris Taylor, Host, Viral Networking Conference
Format and Availability
- Format
- Keynote, Workshop, or Panel
- Delivery
- In-person or Virtual
- Talk Length
- 30 / 60 / 90 minutes
- Lead Time
- Please inquire 6 to 8 weeks in advance for best availability.
- Travel
- Available for travel nationwide. Virtual available for any location.
Who She Speaks To
Michelle speaks at women's business events, accounting and finance conferences, and leadership gatherings for service-based founders. Her audiences are experienced, high-achieving, and ready for something real.
"I really enjoyed the exercises and discussions with others. The real life examples and resources provided were very helpful."
Scaling New Heights 2025 attendee
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