Member since December 2025
Michelle Egbert has worked with business owners to create their Framework for Success by helping them establish a solid purpose, setting their priorities, and creating processes that save them time and money.
With two decades of experience in business consulting, Michelle has held pivotal roles that have driven organizational growth and efficiency, earning recognition as a thought leader in strategic planning. She is passionate about empowering entrepreneurs and small business owners by providing them with the tools and
guidance needed to transform their visions into sustainable success stories. Seeing her clients achieve their dreams and experiencing the profound ripple effect of their success on their communities is what makes her work incredibly rewarding.
When she is not crafting strategies, you can find her hiking with her family, exploring new camping adventures, or savoring a good book, always in pursuit of life's next adventure.
My passion is helping purpose-driven leaders and entrepreneurs uncover their “why,” align their priorities, and take action in a way that feels authentic, empowering, and sustainable. I thrive on translating clarity into impact by helping people reclaim their time, protect their energy, and lead with confidence.
Seeing someone have that “aha” moment when they finally connect who they are with where they are going. It puts a smile on my face watching small breakthroughs turn into real-life change, whether it’s a leader confidently setting boundaries, an entrepreneur prioritizing what matters most, or someone embracing a life and business that feels aligned with their true self. I love celebrating progress, clarity, and momentum, especially when it lights up someone else’s life.
Defining my purpose felt like crossing a finish line. I finally had clarity. I knew my values, my direction and the legacy I wanted to build. But what I didn’t realize then is something many purpose-driven leaders learn the hard way: you can have a beautifully articulated Why and still drift completely away from it. I learned purpose is not a one-time declaration. It’s a daily alignment. And in that season of my life alignment was the very thing I had lost.
Once my purpose was clear, opportunities began pouring in. Doors swung open so fast I could barely catch my breath. At first it felt like affirmation, as if the universe was saying, “Yes, you’re on the right track.” But slowly, almost imperceptibly, I stopped evaluating those opportunities through the lens of my values and my purpose. I got swept up in the excitement of being seen, being needed and being wanted. Invitations felt like validation. Requests felt like proof that I was doing something right.
Before long, “yes” became my automatic response….No wasn’t even in my vocabulary. I was a mother of two small children at that time. I was running two businesses. I was serving on the boards of two women’s organizations. My calendar was packed, my energy was thin, and my identity was stretched across commitments that looked impressive from the outside but slowly eroded my alignment on the inside. Everything seemed good. But “seemed” turned out to be a dangerous word for me.
One evening, the night before an annual women’s conference, our board worked late into the night finalizing details. By the time we wrapped up it was almost midnight. I was exhausted and ready to collapse into bed completely unaware that the moment that would change my direction was still minutes away....It was waiting for me inside an elevator.
As I stepped in and watched the doors close a heavy, overwhelming pressure settled onto my shoulders. I caught my reflection in the mirrored doors: tired eyes, a forced smile, a woman running on fumes.
And in the silent elevator I heard myself ask,
“Why am I here? What am I doing?”
It hit me with a force I wasn’t ready for. I wasn’t just a little off track. I had taken the exit ramp entirely. I wasn’t living my purpose. I was taking a full blown detour from my purpose.
Yes, I was learning … Yes, I was meeting wonderful people.
But I was no longer aligned with who I was or where I was going. I had traded intentional purpose for accidental busyness.
That night, back in my hotel room, I didn’t sleep. I journaled. I reflected. I interrogated every commitment, every obligation, every “yes” I had given away without discernment. And what I realized was sobering: The priorities that once supported my purpose no longer had any space in my life. My schedule was full but not with the things that mattered.
My purpose hadn’t changed…. but my alignment had.
So I made the choice many women fear but desperately need. I began the process of releasing what no longer fit. I gave myself permission to step back from roles that weren’t aligned. I let go of responsibilities that were rooted in others’ expectations instead of my own values. I rebuilt my calendar around my true, authentic self and not the version of me that was flattered by being needed. I build it on the version of me committed to her purpose.
That elevator didn’t just take me to another floor … It brought me back to myself.
One day at work I forgot my lunch and I missed the opportunity to partake in lunch at the cafeteria. This particular day my meetings ran long and I missed lunch all together. I needed a snack to keep me going to finish out the day. I went to the vending machine to pick out a very unhealthy snack and met Robert. Honestly I can not remember what we talked about. All I remember is that we were both standing at the vending machine talking about life. I ran into Robert on several other occasions at work.
Little did I know that these chance encounters allowed him to see who I was, what I believed in and if we could work together. I discovered Robert was a strategist. He had worked with large corporations helping them align who they were with where they needed to go. Robert was in search of someone he could mentor. He was looking for a person who could take strategy and make it a reality for the corporations he was consulting with. Robert was a strategic thinker. He was looking for someone who could understand the strategy and implement it tactically.
You see, it was interesting how Robert came to work at the same company I did. Let’s call the company X. His wife had worked at Company X for years. Robert was not a company guy. He was a serial entrepreneur. His wife wanted him to know what it was like to have a “real job”. She did not expect him to last more than a month. Not only did he take up her challenge but he applied for the lowest level position in the company. He worked as a temp on the night shift assembly line for minimum wage. Robert took the job out of respect for his wife but he also had an ulterior motive. He was going to make this job a case study on how to improve the companies bottom line. He was observing the culture and aligning himself with key executives, all while working in one of the lowest paying positions.
Within in weeks Robert was rubbing elbows with key executives and eating lunch with them in the cafeteria. Robert must have seen something a few weeks back when we met at the vending machine because he starting meeting with me at lunch as well. He had a very large international client he would be working for in the next few months. He wanted to see if I could play a role in that opportunity. Robert had a strategic mindset with no interest in tactical implementation. He was looking for a partner, a business partner, who could do that for him.
Within a few months, I discovered that I could accomplish many of the items on my list while maintaining my core values partnering with Robert. I created my own company and worked side by side with Robert. He allowed me to take chances with my theories, he helped me hone in on new ideas and most importantly allowed me to live out my purpose while gaining new skills and making an impact. All of this would have never happened had I not identified my core values, who I wanted to be and where I wanted to go. Thus, I began to understand the more clear my personal Why was, the easier it became to build a business that aligned with it. It was through this mentoring relationship that my “Business Why” began to emerge.
It all started at a vending machine, a moment so ordinary I could have missed it. But purpose can hide in the ordinary. Sometimes the right person arrives just when you are ready to step into who you are becoming.
Defining my purpose felt like crossing a finish line. I finally had clarity. I knew my values, my direction and the legacy I wanted to build. But what I didn’t realize then is something many purpose-driven leaders learn the hard way: you can have a beautifully articulated Why and still drift completely away from it. I learned purpose is not a one-time declaration. It’s a daily alignment. And in that season of my life alignment was the very thing I had lost.
Once my purpose was clear, opportunities began pouring in. Doors swung open so fast I could barely catch my breath. At first it felt like affirmation, as if the universe was saying, “Yes, you’re on the right track.” But slowly, almost imperceptibly, I stopped evaluating those opportunities through the lens of my values and my purpose. I got swept up in the excitement of being seen, being needed and being wanted. Invitations felt like validation. Requests felt like proof that I was doing something right.
Before long, “yes” became my automatic response….No wasn’t even in my vocabulary. I was a mother of two small children at that time. I was running two businesses. I was serving on the boards of two women’s organizations. My calendar was packed, my energy was thin, and my identity was stretched across commitments that looked impressive from the outside but slowly eroded my alignment on the inside. Everything seemed good. But “seemed” turned out to be a dangerous word for me.
One evening, the night before an annual women’s conference, our board worked late into the night finalizing details. By the time we wrapped up it was almost midnight. I was exhausted and ready to collapse into bed completely unaware that the moment that would change my direction was still minutes away....It was waiting for me inside an elevator.
As I stepped in and watched the doors close a heavy, overwhelming pressure settled onto my shoulders. I caught my reflection in the mirrored doors: tired eyes, a forced smile, a woman running on fumes.
And in the silent elevator I heard myself ask,
“Why am I here? What am I doing?”
It hit me with a force I wasn’t ready for. I wasn’t just a little off track. I had taken the exit ramp entirely. I wasn’t living my purpose. I was taking a full blown detour from my purpose.
Yes, I was learning … Yes, I was meeting wonderful people.
But I was no longer aligned with who I was or where I was going. I had traded intentional purpose for accidental busyness.
That night, back in my hotel room, I didn’t sleep. I journaled. I reflected. I interrogated every commitment, every obligation, every “yes” I had given away without discernment. And what I realized was sobering: The priorities that once supported my purpose no longer had any space in my life. My schedule was full but not with the things that mattered.
My purpose hadn’t changed…. but my alignment had.
So I made the choice many women fear but desperately need. I began the process of releasing what no longer fit. I gave myself permission to step back from roles that weren’t aligned. I let go of responsibilities that were rooted in others’ expectations instead of my own values. I rebuilt my calendar around my true, authentic self and not the version of me that was flattered by being needed. I build it on the version of me committed to her purpose.
That elevator didn’t just take me to another floor … It brought me back to myself.
One day at work I forgot my lunch and I missed the opportunity to partake in lunch at the cafeteria. This particular day my meetings ran long and I missed lunch all together. I needed a snack to keep me going to finish out the day. I went to the vending machine to pick out a very unhealthy snack and met Robert. Honestly I can not remember what we talked about. All I remember is that we were both standing at the vending machine talking about life. I ran into Robert on several other occasions at work.
Little did I know that these chance encounters allowed him to see who I was, what I believed in and if we could work together. I discovered Robert was a strategist. He had worked with large corporations helping them align who they were with where they needed to go. Robert was in search of someone he could mentor. He was looking for a person who could take strategy and make it a reality for the corporations he was consulting with. Robert was a strategic thinker. He was looking for someone who could understand the strategy and implement it tactically.
You see, it was interesting how Robert came to work at the same company I did. Let’s call the company X. His wife had worked at Company X for years. Robert was not a company guy. He was a serial entrepreneur. His wife wanted him to know what it was like to have a “real job”. She did not expect him to last more than a month. Not only did he take up her challenge but he applied for the lowest level position in the company. He worked as a temp on the night shift assembly line for minimum wage. Robert took the job out of respect for his wife but he also had an ulterior motive. He was going to make this job a case study on how to improve the companies bottom line. He was observing the culture and aligning himself with key executives, all while working in one of the lowest paying positions.
Within in weeks Robert was rubbing elbows with key executives and eating lunch with them in the cafeteria. Robert must have seen something a few weeks back when we met at the vending machine because he starting meeting with me at lunch as well. He had a very large international client he would be working for in the next few months. He wanted to see if I could play a role in that opportunity. Robert had a strategic mindset with no interest in tactical implementation. He was looking for a partner, a business partner, who could do that for him.
Within a few months, I discovered that I could accomplish many of the items on my list while maintaining my core values partnering with Robert. I created my own company and worked side by side with Robert. He allowed me to take chances with my theories, he helped me hone in on new ideas and most importantly allowed me to live out my purpose while gaining new skills and making an impact. All of this would have never happened had I not identified my core values, who I wanted to be and where I wanted to go. Thus, I began to understand the more clear my personal Why was, the easier it became to build a business that aligned with it. It was through this mentoring relationship that my “Business Why” began to emerge.
It all started at a vending machine, a moment so ordinary I could have missed it. But purpose can hide in the ordinary. Sometimes the right person arrives just when you are ready to step into who you are becoming.