About

Michelle Edelen

The Excellence Engineer

Highly sought-after keynote speaker, leadership expert, author, and coach Michelle Edelen is one of the most compelling, captivating, and charismatic voices in motivational speaking today. She empowers audiences with her transformational principles, so they learn to embrace greatness and F.L.O.W. in excellence.

Fondly revered as “The Excellence Engineer,” Michelle works with individuals and organizations to amplify their communication, connection, and confidence so they can make an influential impact on the world. She mentors passionately, guiding her clients to reach their highest potential personally and professionally. She facilitates robust workshop training and brings a unique perspective of diversity, equity, and inclusion to high-level corporate leaders and their employees.
Leveraging over 30 years of leadership experience in the public and private sectors, Michelle has a unique talent for making meaningful connections with audiences and a remarkable ability to help others maximize their strengths. Her down-to-earth humor compels audiences to laugh while learning and leaves them with empowering tools and focused mindsets. Michelle has a deep-rooted passion for people, leadership, and excellence, which qualifies her to help people take their careers – and themselves – to unprecedented levels.

Michelle’s extensive leadership expertise has landed her on major corporate stages across the United States. Her exceptional skills have allowed her to deliver keynotes to some of the most prominent corporate organizations in the industry. She is an inspirational figure who has given high-energy keynote speeches on live and virtual international stages for large audiences, including Shawn Fair’s Leadership Experience Tour, Cardinal Innovations DE&I Conference, Women of Standard Conference, and T.E.A.C.H. Ministries Conference, to name a few.

In line with her unrelenting passion for helping individuals succeed, Michelle founded Excellence In All, which provides strategies to own and activate excellence by overcoming self-limiting thoughts, doubt, and fear. As an influential figure, she has authored two bestsellers, Getting to Your Place of Excellence: A 10 Day Devotional and F.L.O.W. In Excellence.

Michele is a visionary who is often recognized for her leadership, commitment, and contributions to her community and the next generation. Her work has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and in leading magazines and newspapers, including Black Enterprise, Ebony, Voyage New York, Entertainment Monthly, and San Francisco Post, among others.