Michelle is a professional Non Executive Director and has more than 30 years’ experience in the property industry as a listed Non-Executive Director, former Chief Operating Officer, senior corporate real estate and financial services executive and leader with ASX50-300 and NZX50 organisations with a background in funds management, real estate investment, property and asset management, general management, transformation, strategy development and execution.

Michelle currently serves on the boards of Stride Property Group (SPG:NZX), Growthpoint Properties Australia (GOZ:ASX), PEET Ltd (PPC:ASX), and the Cotton Research and Development Corporation. She is also a board member of Uniting NSW & ACT, Assemble (HESTA nominee director), which develops social and affordable housing, and two First Nations national not-for profit organisations; as Interim Co-chair of Message Stick Foundation Chair of CareerTrackers.

She actively contributes to social impact initiatives as a member of the NSW Domestic and Family and Sexual Violence Corporate Leadership Group, the Property Council of Australia’s Indigenous Advisory Group, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Chief Executive Women and Women on Boards.

Michelle is a proud Aboriginal woman, Wiradjuri descendant and member of the “Hidden Generations”, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people whose cultural heritage and identity have been obscured or disconnected due to various social, political and familial circumstances of assimilation policies encouraging or forcing them to assimilate into non-Indigenous communities.

Michelle is committed to Indigenous leadership, First Nations youth and corporate responsibility.