MICHELE LAFLEUR LEAVER, Ph.D.
MS, MBA, MA, MS 

Scholar │Educator │Performance Coach │Speaker

Supporting executives, therapists, coaches, and educators with a multi-dimensional, synergistic learning system that equips leaders, clients, and students with the skills and tools that accelerate human performance and optimal well-being.

For the last several years, I’ve been asking a set of questions that have shaped both my doctoral work and four decades of coaching, leadership, teaching, and building programs for others:

How do we translate important theories, scientific discoveries, and evidence-based practices into actions people can actually apply—and sustain over time? How do we integrate knowledge across disciplines to build meaningful whole-person capacity? How should our understanding of biological aging influence the way we help people grow, perform, and thrive? And how can we equip leaders and clients with the capacity to solve complex problems, tolerate risk, make sound decisions, and act with resilience and discernment—not only in the midst of uncertainty and increasing complexity, but before those capacities are needed?

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Throughout my career working with leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, therapists, educators, and coaches, I noticed something important: most of us naturally stay within the one or two disciplines we know best. Yet people do not live in isolated categories. We live and lead as integrated systems. Physical capacity influences cognition. Relationships influence resilience. Identity shapes behavior. Meaning influences persistence.

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That realization led me to spend the last several years developing a multidimensional, interconnected approach to human performance through doctoral research, coaching, applied research, and the practice of spiritual disciplines. I believe knowledge is 

incomplete until people can use it in everyday life, so I have focused on translating theory and evidence into practical application. My hope is to help build the capacities, skills, and practices that are often missing from institutions, schools, counseling, coaching, and leadership development programs—and to help equip people to meet future challenges. The complexity and pace of cultural and global change increasingly demand more of people—and more than fragmented or one-dimensional approaches can provide.

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My path has included graduate study across multiple disciplines, competitive sport, international leadership experiences, executive roles across industries, and four decades of helping people grow and perform at their best. Over time, I discovered that one of my strengths is helping people turn complex ideas into practical tools, assessments, conversations, and daily practices that create measurable change.

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If these ideas resonate with you, I’d love to connect—to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, explore what works, or simply start a conversation. Now in the second half of life, I’m still learning, still building, and more convinced than ever that strength, growth, and meaningful transformation can continue far longer than most people imagine.