Michelle affiliates to the challenge of strategy development as a balance between the utility of data and research, human analytical ability, and tacit intuition. She finds the human condition fascinating and is passionate about understanding what motivates us. Michelle cares about professional upliftment and empowerment of others. Witnessing others succeed, provides her deep satisfaction. Her value system of continuous learning means that her academic foundation and its role as a touchstone, bolsters knowledge application in her professional environment. Her need to continuously learn, decipher and solve mean that she is unlikely to give up until a particular scenario is comprehensively framed.

Qualifications and Achievements:

• MBCHB (UCT)

• MBA (WBS)

• Research Distinction: The factors that support and impede academic entrepreneurship in biotechnology in South African education institutions.

• International Strategy Electives (Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada).

• MPHIL International Business (GIBS).

• Research Distinction: The influence of religion on strategic decision making in internationalisation of South African women owned enterprises.

• Top subject award: States and markets in the global political economy.

• Top subject award: Managing the multinational corporation.