Marie Michael

Marie Michael (she/her) is an embodied coach, facilitator, and equity and inclusion practitioner with over 20 years of experience influencing individual and institutional change. She provides visioning, strategic planning, and concrete action steps, focusing on work that develops the intercultural capacity of educators, leaders, community activists, and others committed to social justice. Marie works collaboratively and passionately, modeling vulnerability, lifelong learning and a growth mindset.

Marie worked at The Blake School for 23 years, the last seven as the PK-12 Chair of Equity & Instruction. She designed and led all school professional development, coached faculty, staff, and administrators, facilitated affinity spaces, and worked to develop more inclusive practices in admissions, communications, recruitment, retention, and teacher evaluation.

Marie has been consulting for six years. As an embodied coach and facilitator, Marie uses strategies she’s learned from Somatic Experiencing and Generative Somatics to support clients in listening deeply to themselves in order to build capacity and resilience, to solve problems and resolve conflict and tension with others, and to better align their actions with their values.

As an equity and social justice trainer, Marie uses an embodied approach with organizational leaders to develop long term equity plans and design training geared to their organization’s particular needs. She’s a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), able to use the IDI to support individuals, groups and organizations in learning to work more effectively across cultures.