About

Naturally curious, honouring and non-judgemental, I craft my coaching style according to my clients and my client’s situation.  Sometimes, when appropriate, I coach by just asking questions.  At other times, I’m an equal conversation contributor with ideas, philosophies and input.To facilitate deeper, more articulate cognitive and experiential self-knowledge, I draw on tools from astrology (character and predictive analysis), yoga (exploring the mind-body-emotion relationship) and adult learning (KOLB, Hudson’s and CCL Leadership Competencies)        

At all times, I see my role as being here to facilitate your thinking and learning – encouraging and creating space to allow the emergence of those insights that provide clarity around issues that are important to you – and help you to move forward in the direction of your choice.

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Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Michelle Clarke is an executive and business coach who works with already-successful, high-achieving individuals, coaching her clients to increase their value proposition – not only professionally, but also holistically. Trained as an Integral Coach with The Coaching Centre in South Africa, Michelle also holds a Master Coach Certification with The Behavioral Coaching Institute of Europe.  She is also a certified Tele-Class Leader (USA) and trained in the Nancy Kline Time To Think™ Methodology and the Action Learning Methodology (AWOL).  Michelle also oversees the training of business coaches in South Africa through an alliance with the South African College of Applied Psychology and gives numerous public workshops and Master Classes on Personal Branding and Personal Marketing.  She currently holds the role of National Marketing Chairperson for COMENSA (Coaches & Mentors of South Africa).  

Corporate experience:

An entrepreneur by passion, Michelle started her career in the IT industry, as a sales engineer, later a brand manager, sales manager and branch executive.  In her late-twenties, she founded, grew, managed and later sold her own IT business before migrating into the corporate arena to head  up the entrepreneurial department of a multi-national, where she held a seat on the divisional board.  She founded Michelle Clarke Coaching in November 2005 and secured her first multi-national coaching contract in the same year.  Presently, the majority of her coaching work is a combination of corporate, government, and NGO clients.   

Differentiating:

Michelle has an affiliation for coaching people who are already performing to a high level.  The core content of her coaching satisfies the self-assured high-achievers developmental and feedback needs.  Her expertise lies in the positive reinforcement of skills, knowledge and competencies, while still focusing on integral personal growth.  Michelle brings her combined knowledge and experience in the Behavioral Sciences, Integral Coaching, and Psychological Astrology to her work, providing her clients with a unique perspective to explore the whole person.   

Offer

Geographical Reach:  Worldwide.        
Coaching Services: Face-to-face, Telephone, Remotely using internet tools. 

Custom tailored one-to-one or one-to-many coaching partnerships are designed to meet your needs, aspirations, business and career objectives. Intentional coaching conversations are designed to challenge and encourage high achieving individuals to use their skills, strenghts, authentic personality, emotions and thinking in new and innovative ways. New ways of thinking stimulate new ways of seeing, being, engaging with and impacting on our world.