Michelle Rios is a Master Certified Coach, one of fewer than 2,100 in the world to earn this designation, and she has extensive experience as an Executive Leadership & Team Coach. She specializes in leader and team development, with a specific focus on cultural and emotional intelligence. Her passion is supporting leaders and teams as they learn to function at their best while navigating the competing priorities, ambiguities, and ever-shifting landscape of life in today's organizations. Michelle’s executive coaching sweet spots include guiding newly promoted leaders to replace the behaviors that made them successful in the past with those needed for their new role, and supporting leaders in a career crisis to transform it into an opportunity to thrive.
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Michelle’s signature Blue Tiger Leadership® Executive Coaching program helps leaders develop self-awareness, enrich relationships, and amplify team effectiveness. Her methodology is successful in part because she shadows executives while they work, observing nuances of body language, tone of voice, and word choice. She then shows the executives how their behaviors create powerful undercurrents that influence the building or damaging of relationships. Leaders learn to replace ineffective behaviors with proactive, consciously chosen ones to significantly change the outcomes of their actions both inside and outside the organization
Michelle has led and executed organizational development and effectiveness strategies in her leadership roles in several government agencies and multinational corporations. She created a leadership development program that was implemented worldwide after graduates experienced an 86% promotion rate. She drove productivity, performance, and morale improvements by creating a learning culture that included 360-degree performance reviews and bi-monthly Management Coaching Circles for professional development.
One of her career highlights was spending 3 years in Asia as an expat Director of HR for the Mid Pacific Division of DFS, an LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Company. In collaboration with the Managing Director and Director of Finance & Operations, she led all aspects of a $350M division and over 700 employees, including a management operations team of 25 in a multi-site, multi-national, multilingual organization. In addition, she was responsible for developing and implementing a worldwide Learning & Development program that trained employees in management, leadership and team effectiveness.
Michelle has clients that span the globe; however, she calls Portland, Oregon home and frequently travels to California and Washington to see other West Coast clients.
I believe the heart of leadership lies in the actionable courage of self-awareness and intentional growth. When leaders slow down to truly see themselves and others, they create space for trust, compassionate connection, and meaningful change that ripples through their teams and organizations.