About Michelle Ndely
Michelle is an educator, consultant and executive coach. Her work is informed by anti-racist principles, rooted in intercultural competency development, adult learning theory, and conflict resolution. She coaches people out of unconscious biases and makes them aware of predispositions that impede the actualization of their visions.
With a professional background in urban educational leadership, Michelle has now fully transitioned to consulting and coaching on intercultural exchanges across lines of identity. She helps leaders discover and adopt innovative strategies that align their core values with their organizational structures, practices, procedures, and programming.
Michelle is a partner in a Black/Woman led consulting collective with Dorcas Davis, Founder of the March for Racial Justice in Brooklyn, New York. Together they bring a nuanced lens to leaders and companies looking to apply anti-racist principles and practices to their business models and organizations.
Experience
Michelle has 20 years of experience learning and collaboratively leading within diasporic Black and Latinx communities, both in the USA in the Caribbean. While working as an educational leader, Michelle began consulting for groups and organizations looking to serve her students, their communities, and eventually the education industry at large, through an equity lens. Critical of the outcomes she was seeing, Michelle began to problem solve with leaders, and share ideas for how they could begin to do the work that she herself was engaged in, as she cultivated anti-racist practices in her own life and work.
These practices go beyond a training or a workshop, and have broad applications. The tools are germane to any person and any program that is looking to deepen their efficacy in working with others.
Additionally, Michelle has had the opportunity to support a number of BIPOC-led organizations and clients, both those that serve primarily communities of color, and those looking to reach a racially diverse audience. She enjoys supporting leaders and entrepreneurs who approach their work from a perspective of servant leadership, values-based decision-making, and measure their success by their impact.
Advisory Board Member for the March for Racial Justice since its inception in 2017
Co-founded and co-led TFOA: Professional Prep, the founding educational firm of the Black-led charter network Ember Charter Schools in Brooklyn, New York, an Echoing Green Fellowship project.
Lead Teacher/Dean of Students/Director of Student Achievement Data at KIPP Stand Academy, Minneapolis, MN
Middle School Teacher/Leader in West Philadelphia public schools, then under the direction of Sharif El-Mekki, CEO of The Center for Black Educator Development
Middle School Director of Basil Middle School, of Chicago International Charter Schools in Chicago, IL
Michelle’s lived experience informs and shapes her practice as a consultant and coach.
Throughout her young life, Michelle was driven by a passion to understand and resolve an internal discomfort and questions within herself at the intersections of culture, race, peace and conflict, and has since followed that path quite literally around the world.
Michelle is also a daughter, sister, auntie, wife, and happy mother of three young children.