Michelle Rushton presenting to a room of leaders
Michelle Rushton

Elevate your leadership impact

Inspiring keynote speaker

Described as having a unique mix of warmth, energy and gravitas, incredibly practical strategies and impact that is off the charts, Michelle creates leadership experiences that executives act on long after the room empties.

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Michelle Rushton works across a diverse array of industries throughout the Asia Pacific region, moving seamlessly between executive teams of 8 people to audiences of 1,300.

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With over 20 years of experience and tens of thousands of leaders, she spends most of her time with executive teams and senior leaders, helping them to elevate their leadership impact. Michelle (GAICD) also works with boards on organisational strategy and team development.

Michelle's effort, energy and enthusiasm for growing our extended leadership team was off the charts. I couldn't recommend Michelle more highly.

CEOWorkwear Group (Wesfarmers)

Michelle's engagement and facilitation skills are exceptional. I have evidenced a significant uplift in the performance of our executive leadership team.

General ManagerCamden Council

The feedback we received from our staff was phenomenal, with each and every person walking away inspired and empowered.

Group GM People & CultureProtech
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Michelle is co-founder and Director, along with Shaun Kenny, of the leadership consultancy People of Influence and the leadership measurement platform Leadership Engine.

Two ways to work with Michelle

People of Influence is the consultancy through which Michelle Rushton and Shaun Kenny deliver leadership programs, team offsites and impactful conferences.

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Leadership Engine is our proprietary platform for measuring leadership effectiveness with diagnostics, dashboards and roadmaps.

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