About me
Michelle Auerbach, Ph.D.
is a world-builder and community-maker who uses all her geeky skills to support and educate change shapers and storytellers. Michelle works as a consultant, educator, and writer focused on communications, change, creativity, and leadership for individuals, organizations, and communities. Michelle has been studying change and developing her change shaping practice for over 40 years. Her PhD research is in storytelling as a systemic change technology and she also holds an MFA in fiction writing. Michelle teaches at the University of Colorado. She is also a consulting scholar at Sterling College. Michelle has worked with institutions (the NY City Department of Health, Kaiser Permanente, and The National Institutes of Health), organizations (from Fortune 50 companies in the Pharma space to NGOs and nonprofits) start-ups, and communities (through activist movements, consulting, designing change processes and facilitating), and she creates communications and storytelling strategies for universities, legislative change groups, pro-social businesses, individuals, and media outlets. And if you want a book with your name on it, she ghostwrites books - especially for thinkers in the organization world. Her writing has been seen in the New York Time, the London Guardian, Sunset Magazine, various academic journals and in her six books including Resilience: The Life-Saving Skill of Story and her newest Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems through Relationship.
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