Michelle Cummings, M.S., is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer for Personify Leadership. Her diverse background in team development programs helped her engineer and create the experiential activities utilized in Personify Leadership programs. She been coaching, facilitating and leading teams and organizations for over two decades.  Her steadfast leadership at Personify has allowed her to develop thousands of leaders all over the world.

Michelle is also the Big Wheel and founder of Training Wheels, a known leader in the Team Development industry. She is an accomplished author and is a dynamic, sought-after speaker and consultant in the areas of leadership, teambuilding, and experiential learning. Michelle has created a wide variety of facilitation, debriefing and teambuilding activities that have collectively changed the way trainers and educators work.

Michelle works with professional associations, corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations throughout the world. She facilitates a wide variety of programs for corporate teams, therapeutic populations, and school groups, as well as train-the-trainer workshops for professionals. Her experiences with such diverse audiences over nearly two decades in the field have played a tremendous role in the development of Personify Leadership.

Michelle speaks at more than 15 local, national, and international conferences each year and authors a weekly teambuilding newsletter called The Spokesperson that has over 22,000 subscribers in over 100 countries. She has authored six books to date, with another one due for release later this year.

Michelle holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Kansas State University and a Master’s degree in Experiential Education from Minnesota State University at Mankato. She grew up on a farm in Norton, Kansas and currently lives in Littleton, Colorado.