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Michelle’s core mission is to help people feel inspired to try things differently. She puts this mission to work on the JDI operations team, helping lead recruitment, training, and professional development.

Michelle discovered her passion for helping people thrive when she spontaneously moved to South Korea to teach English. There, she reveled in the challenge of finding inventive ways for her young students to practice a new language. There wasn’t anything she wouldn’t do to make learning just a little more special – from designing elaborate games, hunting down ingredients for a taco making lesson, and even teaching the Cha Cha Slide (despite her own atrocious sense of rhythm.)

After that, she was hooked on empowering others to grow their potential. In her career, she has trained Starbucks baristas on customer service, taught teenagers psychology in Shakespearean plays, and connected educators to local chefs and hoteliers for unconventional curriculum development.

Now, at JDI she continues that work by helping the team become world-class in marketing and design, and experts in helping precedent-setting science companies become well-known and understood.