Michelle Sorrensen

My Story

Sometimes to achieve a different result, you need to think and act a little differently.

Little kids go through the phase of asking “WHY” all the time. It’s a normal part of human development and it drives everyone mad in the process. Apart from the incessant repetition driving us mad, its also challenging because most of us never stop to question why we do or don’t do something. Most of us never analyse something unless its broken. Preferring to take a well trodden path rather than carve out our own on unfamiliar territory.

For me, I guess I never grew out of challenging things when they don’t make sense to me and over time “why not” became one of my mantras.

I never understood people that let others decide which box you can and cannot fit into because their view of the world mean’t you didn’t fit their “acceptable criteria”. I never understood people that gave up at the first hurdle. Some might call that stubborn, I prefer to call it determined and that determination has taken me to many wonderful places.  

In my corporate leadership roles, I approached problems differently. I challenged others to take off the filters how they think. To think outside the square, to tackle problems and approach things in a different way.

Both personally and as a leader, I believe obstacles are simply something that don’t have a solution yet.

I immersed myself in the dynamics of psychology,  NLP and emotional intelligence to understand how the mind and body can be optimised for success.

In a nutshell, I learnt how to quickly cut-through the crap that was getting in the way of results.

I gained a reputation for taking silo’d, dysfunctional teams and transforming them into cohesive, high performing teams that achieved amazing results in crazy timeframes. For accelerating the careers of direct reports who learnt how to adapt their mindset and communications for personal wellbeing and productivity as well as becoming an influential communicator and strong relationship builder. 

Now, I work with others to help them cut-through complexity to attain inspirational results in a truly productive, sustainable way. I coach, train and speak on all aspects of communications for influence, stress management, team and relationship building to improve individual and team performance whilst maintaining resilience under pressure.