Coaching, Masterclasses & Advisory Sessions

Michelle is the trusted advisor to some of the world’s leading companies

“Always backed with tremendous expertise and experience as well as profound research”

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Dr Michelle King works with the world's leading organisations in three ways: coaching the leaders who shape culture, running masterclasses that equip teams to perform, and advising boards and executive committees on the strategic challenges that matter most. Every engagement is grounded in two decades of original research and leading practice. All are built around your organisation's specific needs.

Executive Coaching

Great leaders are not born. They are built through the right combination of insight, challenge and support. Dr King’s executive coaching gives senior leaders the psychological framework and practical tools to lead with greater clarity, confidence and impact, in a world that is changing faster than any leadership manual can keep pace with. Coaching with Dr King is not generic leadership development. It is a bespoke, evidence-based engagement built around who you are, where you are, and where you need to go.

Coaching topics include:

Leading in the Age of AI: Understanding what AI is doing to your people, your culture and your own leadership, and how to stay ahead of it.

Building a High-Performance Culture: Creating the conditions where your people’s three fundamental needs, competence, connection and autonomy, are met every day, and performance follows naturally.

Navigating Career Transitions: Whether stepping into a new role, taking on a broader remit, or leading through organisational change, Dr King gives leaders the clarity and confidence to transition successfully.

Managing Workplace Relationships: From difficult colleagues to challenging boards, Dr King gives leaders the psychological tools to manage complex relationships with skill, authority and integrity.

Future-Proofing Your Leadership: Building the metacognitive skills, learning agility and human capabilities that make leaders irreplaceable in an AI-accelerated world.

Masterclasses

Dr King’s masterclasses go deeper than a keynote. They give your leaders and teams the research, the frameworks and the hands-on tools to create real, lasting change inside your organisation. Every masterclass is tailored to your industry, your people and your strategic priorities.

Delivered in person or virtually, each session combines the latest organisational psychology research with practical application, giving participants tools they can use from the moment they leave the room.

:Masterclass topics include:

The Science of Thriving at Work: What every employee needs to understand about their own psychological needs and how to get them met, even inside an imperfect system.

What AI Is Really Doing to Your People: An introduction to Positive Capability Drift and a practical framework for protecting human capability, motivation and wellbeing in an AI-accelerated workplace.

Your Career Is Dead: Four Ways to Build One That Lasts: The four strategies every professional needs to stay relevant

Building Workplaces Where Everyone Can Thrive: The structural and cultural changes that move organisations from good intentions to workplaces where every person can contribute fully. Based on Dr King’s award-winning book The Fix.

Board and Executive Advisory Sessions

The most important conversations in any organisation happen at the top. Dr King works directly with boards and executive committees, bringing the latest research on workplace culture, human performance and AI’s impact on people into the room where strategy is made.

These are not presentations. They are bespoke, in-depth strategy sessions designed to give your leadership team the evidence, the challenge and the clarity to make decisions that put your people at the centre of your organisation’s future.

Organisations that work with Dr King at board level leave with a shared language, a clearer picture of where their culture is today, and a practical roadmap for where it needs to go.

Advisory sessions cover:

AI and the Future of Your People Strategy: What Positive Capability Drift means for your organisation, and how to build an AI strategy that enhances rather than erodes human performance.

Culture as a Business Imperative: The research evidence for why culture drives performance, and what your organisation’s data is telling you about where the gaps are.

The Manager Gap: Why your middle management layer is your biggest culture risk, and what your executive team can do about it.

Building an Inclusive Organisation That Actually Works: Moving beyond policy-level DEI to the structural and cultural change that creates genuine competitive advantage.

Ready to work together?

Dr King works with a small number of organisations at any one time, ensuring every engagement gets the depth, rigour and personal attention it deserves. Whether you are looking for a single session or an ongoing strategic partnership, the first conversation is always about understanding what your organisation needs.

The organisations that work with Dr King don’t just get better programmes. They get a different way of thinking about their people, and that changes everything.