Themes

Taking Time For You

Taking Time for Your Most Important Client: YOU

Respectful Feedback: Giving & Receiving For Mutual Benefit

The Power of Words - Communicating Without Judgment

Unexpected Leadership - Maximizing Your Team's Performance

About

Ms. Porchia is a dynamic, interactive, down-to-earth trainer, coach and keynote speaker who provides innovative and unexpected solutions to life and business challenges. For more than 20 years Michelle Porchia has been conducting seminars, workshops and keynotes for the profit and not-for-profit sector. She has an extensive background in human resources and training and development and has worked with all business levels. Michelle shares her expertise with her clients on communicating effectively, giving and receiving feedback, conflict resolution and taking time for you. Her goal is to enable her clients to discover and develop their full potential, paving the road to well-being and personal and professional success. She is founder of Innergize Day and author of Innergize Day: Taking Time for Yourself and co-author of Getting Things Done: Successful Women Speak.

Michelle taps into the inner dimensions of each person, providing innovative, unexpected solutions to life's challenges. Michelle also works with companies and corporations in achieving their business goals and in the process, fostering a dynamic work environment that supports productivity by bringing out the best in every employee. She uses unique business techniques designed to teach managers and employees to develop their communication skills, interpersonal skills and leadership potential, enabling them to work together more effectively as a team and, as a result, fostering greater enhanced productivity.

Assets

Michelle believes when people enjoy learning, they remember more. Her workshops, seminars and speeches are interactive, fun and applicable for every day life, both personally and professionally. Her goal is when people walk out the door; they can put into use immediately something they have learned from the session. Michelle encourages thinking differently. She doesn’t believe in “thinking out of the box.” Her saying is, “don’t be in the box in the first place.” Michelle challenges people’s thinking through connecting with them at a deeper level.

Besides working with individuals, she has worked extensively with teams who have undergone organizational and/or leadership changes.

Michelle’s speeches, trainings and seminars include but are not limited to:

• The Power of Words – Communicating
Without Judgment
• Respectful Feedback: Giving and
Receiving for Mutual Benefit
• Safe Conflict Management – Moving
Towards Resolution
• Unexpected Solutions to Business
Diplomacy
• Unexpected Leadership – Maximizing
Your Team’s Performance

If you want change, improvement or want to go to the next level, you want Michelle to work with you.

Rave Reviews

“Michelle has the rare ability to distinguish and account for a person’s communication style and specific needs--effectively engaging any participant in her seminars. I felt motivated to learn, and even 2 years after the seminar, still utilize and incorporate the tools in my everyday interpersonal relationships, garnering much commendation from my coworkers and supervisor.”
R.T.
Payroll Administrator

“Michelle is an extraordinary speaker. Her soft-spoken, powerful way of presenting is highly engaging. I learned a great deal from both her effective communications and conflict resolution programs. So much so, that it was a life-changing experience. Her concepts and style inspired me to change my behavior both at work and at home...Her sense of humor and real approach makes learning fun. I highly recommend her both as a speaker and coach.”
D.R.
IT Client Liaison


“Ms. Porchia provides a fresh and inclusive approach to training that I have not seen before. Training is well planned and designed to meet the needs of both employee and the organization. I attended a training session with Ms. Porchia and the results have provided me with invaluable tools that have helped me along in my personal and professional growth.
R.M.Compensation Manager

"Michelle has an exuberant personality and exceptional talent for making her seminars fun, fostering a warm and comfortable environment to discuss matters she has a deep and knowledgeable passion for: communication skills, work ethics, career and self-development. They are a joy to attend and I have always come away with new insights and a desire for to return for more."
Alan D.
Senior Business Anaylyst

Michelle's professional and open interpersonal style, coupled with her extensive training development experience, fosters a trusting, energizing training environment. She has provided me with life-altering knowledge that I will treasure for a lifetime!
L.L.
Lead Business Analyst