Michelle Raymond

Michelle is an HR Specialist, Visibility Strategist, Certified Master NLP Practitioner, and award-winning International Speaker and trainer on a mission to make the inVisible Visible!

Michelle is also a highly acclaimed TEDx speaker, visionary speaker brand strategist for professional speakers and Founder of The People’s Partner (TPP). TPP is a specialist HR and Coaching consultancy for small and medium businesses, designing and delivering effective people management strategies, contract compliance, policy implementation and employee productivity with expertise in change management.
As a sought-after media personality, Michelle has leveraged her research on the work and leadership paradigms of women in business and leadership – highlighting the psychological barriers that seem to hold them back and shines a light on strategies and insight that deal with the imposter syndrome.
Michelle has also become a respected and in-demand business coach, keynote speaker and authority on how to use strategic networking in an impactful way. Her most talked-about speech ‘How to Elevate your Circle of influence with Key People of Influence’ is both controversial and persuasive leaving listeners with easy to implement actionable takeaways to create powerful relationships that last!

Although Michelle wears various hats such as entrepreneur and speaker, back in 2009, Michelle wore a very different title. Michelle shares her TEDx story of the time she spent married to a man accused of some of the most heinous crimes imaginable against children, and how she became the indirect victim of his crimes through publicity and stigma. She was harassed by her community, her home was attacked, and she fell into a deep depression all the while trying to mitigate the emotional impact this had on her young daughter. She became Visible for the wrong reasons.

More than a decade has passed since then and Michelle has moved past the shame she felt for so long to become a successful entrepreneur with a supportive family, and no longer wears the label of "wife of a paedophile". Instead, Michelle, who has been featured in People management, HR Grapevine, The Guardian, The BBC and Sky TV and is now best known for her people empowerment slogan #AskForMore and is fulfilling her purpose of making the InVisible Visible.