Michelle is a member of the AIS HP Coach Development Team and is leading a national project to shift the dial on the underrepresentation and experiences of women in high performance coaching.
She is a high-performance coach with extensive experience designing and implementing strategy, coaching, developing, monitoring, and managing athletes, coaches, and key stakeholders at the international level.
Coaching at both the development and World Championships level has enabled Michelle to understand both the athlete and coach development pathway from grassroots to international success. With over 35 years’ experience coaching, she is also a qualified teacher, an international coach developer, certified by the International Coaching Council of Excellence and holds a Master of Sport from the University of Queensland.
Michelle has worked and volunteered in educational, club, state, national and international sport settings. She has led the collaborative design and implementation of blended learning programs for high performance coach learning and development.
The last decade has been dedicated to researching, building networks and relationships to design, lead and deliver frameworks, strategies, and programs to impact upon sustainable learning for high performance coaches; particularly in enhancing experiences, motivations. and retention of women in high performance coaching.
