Michele Chaisson

Michele began her profession career in accounting and audit. After receiving a BS in Accounting in 1991, she worked in various capacities in government, restaurants, non-profit, technology, and oil and gas. During those years, she obtained certifications in internal audit (CIA) and risk management assessments (CRMA).

After a corporate layoff in 2015, Michele decided to pursue a long held interest in coaching. She received her training from The Coaches Institute (CTI), and in 2016, she obtained the designation of Certified Profession CoActive Coach (CPCC).

During coach training, Michele also began exploring improvisational theater. This was not something that she thought she ever would or could do. She started it mainly as a way to get “out of her head” and “think more quickly on her feet”. This quickly turned into a love of the art of improv, and a realization that improv skills, such as collaboration, support, and listening, are also highly useful relationship skills.

Both coach training and improv are right-brain activities, calling for creativity, listening to your intuition, and expression. Michele developed an appreciation and fascination for how integrating more right brain activities affected her left-brained work and how that integration created new perspectives and the ability to see new ways of approaching problems.

She continues to work in the audit profession, but is passionate about helping other women do things that they never thought they could do by helping them integrate right and left brain activities into a new path.

Michele is managing GWiB’s Table Talks together with Deb Starkey and can be reached by clicking here.