YOUR AUDIENCE DESERVES A MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE

Connecting hearts, minds, and action

To create a thriving future we have to reconnect – with ourselves, each other, and the living world. I love talking about this emerging future because it is hopeful, powerful, and personal.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND MODERATOR

What You Get

  • People will walk away motivated to:

    • Reconnect with themselves and others.

    • Find joy and meaning in their daily lives and actions.

    • Create community and make change where they are.

    • Use the power of collaboration to protect our future.

    • Tap into our collective energy to lift each other up.

  • Michelle’s topics speak to how we meet today’s challenges:

    • Reconnecting with ourselves, each other, and the living world to create the climate future we need.

    • Cultivating leadership built on connection, trust, and collaboration.

    • The building blocks of our future are our neighborhoods and communities.

SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

· USGBC California Conference – Berkeley, CA, 2026

· Electrify Alameda (SF Climate Week) – Alameda, CA, 2026

· USGBC Greenbuild Healthy Spaces Summit – Los Angeles, CA, 2025

· Denmark Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Unlocking Sustainable Urban Development – San Francisco, CA, 2025

· Women in Climate (SF Climate Week) – San Francisco, CA, 2025

· Beyond the Buzzwords (SF Climate Week) – San Francisco, CA, 2025

· ULI San Francisco: Powering the Urban Future – San Francisco, CA, 2025

· Clean Energy For Harris: Let’s Do This – Alameda, CA, 2024

· Buildings Electrification US – San Francisco, CA, 2023

· ULI Sacramento: Clean Power Cities – Sacramento, CA, 2023

· Urban Land Institute Spring Meeting – San Diego, CA, 2022

· ULI San Francisco: Why Electrify: The Call for All-Electric Buildings ­– virtual, 2022

· UC Berkeley Center for the Built Environment – Berkeley, CA, 2021

· ULI San Francisco: Housing the Bay Summit – San Francisco, CA, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

· Carbon Smart Buildings (Global Climate Action Summit side event) – San Francisco, CA, 2018

· UC Berkeley Sustainability Colloquium – Berkeley, CA, 2018, 2021

· Center for Creative Land Recycling 20th Anniversary – San Francisco, CA, 2016

· World Resources Forum – San Jose, Costa Rica, 2016

· Building Lasting Change – Vancouver, Canada, 2015

· Sustainable Cities International Conference – San Jose, Costa Rica, 2015

· World Green Building Council Congress – various countries, 2010 – 2014

· Greenbuild – United States, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

· Green Building Council of South Africa Conference – Cape Town, South Africa, 2008, 2010, 2013

· Green Building Council of Colombia Annual Forum – Bogota, Colombia, 2012

· Colombia Ministry of Env. and Sustainable Dev. Green Economy Congress – Bogota, Colombia, 2012