Michelle P. King

Dr Michelle Penelope King is a globally recognized expert on inequality and organizational culture. Based on over a decade’s worth of research, Michelle believes that we need to learn how workplaces work, so we can make them work for everyone.
She is the host of a popular podcast called The Fix. Michelle is the author of the bestselling, award-winning book: The Fix: How to Overcome the Invisible Barriers that are Holding Women Back at Work. Her second book How Work Works, will be published internationally on the 10th October 2023.

Michelle is the founder of The Culture Practice, a global consultancy that provides leaders with the assessment, development, and inclusion coaching needed to build cultures that value difference. In addition, Michelle is a Senior Advisor to the UN Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign, where she leads the NextGen Leadership Development Program, which enables young women to navigate and overcome the barriers to their success. Before this, Michelle was the Director of Inclusion at Netflix.

Before that, she was the head of UN Women’s Global Innovation Coalition for Change, which includes managing over 30 private sector partnerships to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Michelle has two decades of international experience working in the private sector.
In each of her roles, Michelle lends her expertise to advance gender equality and enhance global opportunity and achievement for women. In 2022 Michelle was named LinkedIn’s Top Voice for workplace equity and was recognized as the Top 100 Women at Davos by Global Women’s Leadership Experts.

Michelle is a published, award-winning academic with five degrees including a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Organizational Psychology, a Master of Arts in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, a Master of Business Administration, a Post Graduate Degree in Journalism and a PhD in Management.
Michelle is pursuing a post-doctoral research fellowship with Cranfield University in the United Kingdom.
She has been featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, CNN Business, Fortune, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Time, Business Insider, The Times and LinkedIn Editors.

TOPICS:

How to future proof your career: Discover how to develop the skills you need to survive the new world of work

• Unlocking trust: Discover why building trust is the key to creating high performing teams and effective leaders
• What you really need to get ahead: Hacking the four informal systems that determine your career advancement
• How informal networks work: Learn how to build and maintain connections to advance your career and find meaning at work
• How to build self, other, and organizational awareness at work: Discover what your co-workers really think about you!
• How to manage your informal development at work: Discover why you need to manage your development and how to do this
• How to manage your career and find meaning at work: Learn what you need to do to navigate and advance in this new world of work
• How inequality works at work
• Paying It Forward: How to find meaning at work
• Why DEI efforts are failing (and what we can do about it)
• Why DEI is an invitation for leaders to lead
• Why inequality costs men, and what they can do about it
• Overcoming The Greatest Barrier To Women’s Advancement At Work: Gender Denial
• Are Robots Going To Take Your Job? Three ways to future-proof your career
• Understanding how workplaces work: The four ways to advance at work without losing yourself
• How to make your workplace work for everyone (including you!)

“A visionary leader – changing the inclusion landscape.”
Billy Jean King Institute