Michelle Tillis Lederman
Connected Leadership Author and Speaker, People Expert and CEO, Executive Essentials
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Michelle Tillis Lederman, CSP is known for her energetic, engaging, and authentic presentations. An expert on workplace communications and relationships, Michelle’s mission is to help people work better together and advance their individual impact. Named by Forbes as one of the Top 25 Networking Experts, Michelle is a speaker, trainer, coach, and author of four books including The Connectors Advantage and the internationally recognized, The 11 Laws of Likability.
An executive coach and people expert, Michelle inspires organizations and individuals to build real relationships and get real results. Having worked with organizations large and small, she’s identified the common struggle… it’s people challenges. When asked by her young son what she does, she simply replied, “I help people work better together.”
Michelle began her journey to training and speaking when she became disheartened by the lack of leadership and communication she experienced in corporate America. She is a recovering CPA who spent over a decade in finance with positions in audit, M&A, financial consulting, VC, and hedge fund investing.
Michelle’s shift began when she wanted to teach hedge fund advisers how to convince her to invest. Michelle realized she was a teacher at heart. It was this change that led her to found Executive Essentials a training company that provides customized communications and leadership programs for Fortune 500, non-profit, university and government clients all over the world.
A regular media contributor, she has appeared on CBS, NBC, Fox, NPR, CNBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Working Mother, US News & World Report, MSNBC, Forbes and USA Today among others.
Passionate about education, Michelle served as a Communications Professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, on the faculty of the American Management Association, Lehigh Executive Education, and Rutgers Executive Education. She received her BS from Lehigh University, her MBA from Columbia Business School, holds the PCC designation from the International Coaching Federation, and is certified in Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching method.
Michelle lives in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, and two rescued dogs.