About Me

 

Michelle Starr has worked with some of the most brilliant minds in the Consumer Goods industry and the Aerospace industry and now she advocates for women of color in the workplace by focusing her work on inclusion. Over her career, she’s worked in organizations with all levels, functions, and international teams on successful projects. She has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from The University of Cincinnati in Ohio. She speaks to all industries on how to better support women in the workplace. She is a published author of “Be Brown Brave (Guide to Supporting Women of ALL Color in the Workplace)”. She is certified as an Executive Coach showing Chief Functional Officers how to build cohesive teams, increase productivity, and build more revenue by showing inclusion in their organization for women of color. She trains teams to become aware of their own biases and learn how to manage them. She belongs to a multicultural (majority) women’s networking group called Parents Across Cultures. She sits on her HOA board. She assisted INROADS, a non-profit organization that creates pathways to careers for ethnically diverse high school and college students across the country. She fundraised for more than ten years supporting schools on being more diverse and inclusive. She has helped many women advocate for themselves. She has given a TED.com talk at the TEDxCherryCreek event. She has written a book on this needed support for women of color at work.

Michelle resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband of twenty-three years and son in college. She loves to spend time with family and read genres on self-help, wellbeing, mystery, romance, and classics. Her love of writing stemmed from years and years of reading books as a child and hopes to inspire many to capture their thoughts, suggestions, and ideas in writing to share with the world. She loves to participate in helping the world be fair to all.

INCLUDING AND ACCEPTING WOMEN OF COLOR IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS BENEFITS ALL AMERICANS

  • Having a WOMAN OF COLOR “and” man at the helm of every organization and every company is the ultimate goal.

    Our country has long relied on one individual making decisions in many organizations, typically the white male. Being brown brave not only focuses on the inclusion of women of color but has the world see value in both genders leading together.

  • Our corporate strategy is to concentrate on scaling empathy, having compassion, and providing inclusion for women of all colors to increase productivity for the business, and build revenue for the senior leaders. Our business strategy is to broaden this concept’s exposure to as many industries. Our organizational strategy will go in the direction of training teams, coaching executives, writing books, and speaking at engagements.

  • BE BROWN BRAVE

    “Being Brown Brave will scale empathy and compassion in the workplace, which will increase employees’ levels of positive experience, increase productivity, and show current business leaders how to capitalize on women of color’s hidden value.” - Owner, Michelle Starr

    When Women of Color’s value is genuinely accepted, this will automatically create an innate desire to include them in leadership roles. Our belief is not to replace men but join them. This is based on not either US or THEM but rather US AND THEM.

  • To educate and train graduate students, who are our next leaders, on the value of this inclusion and acceptance.

    To educate and train managers, who are the boots on the ground, how to get their teams to execute actions needed for this support.

    To coach executives, who are the leaders to see the benefit from this level of inclusion and acceptance.

    To eventually lobby support from our presidential administration to make this awareness for support a requirement for our American Employment Sector.