Michèle’s Superpowers:

• Trained in both business and the humanities, she combines art and science to explore innovative options and collaborate creatively to solve complex problems.

• Her passion is in harnessing the power of art to discover unique and pragmatic strategies and engaging it for positive social movement and change.

• Her greatest pride is in taking the impossible to the imperative.

Recent Projects:

• Moose Hide Campaign

• Bow Valley College

• Yukon University

Contact Michèle:

O: 403.210.3157

Senior Counsel

Michèle helps visionary organizations improve their governance, build capacity, effectively engage stakeholders and ensure financial stability

Michèle is a nationally recognized culture leader and nation builder, with a focus on developing the arts and cultural landscape in Canada. Through her consulting practice, she is a recognized thought leader and collaborator in key cultural planning within Alberta including leading multi-stakeholder consultation to create the province’s cultural policy. She is a pioneer in Indigenous relations, launching innovative initiatives with the International Women’s Forum (IWF), leading the Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society following the tragic passing of its founder, and providing strategic advice to the former sitting Chief of the Tsuut’ina Nation.

She is a non-practising member of the Law Society of Alberta; a graduate of Harvard University, a passionate pianist and acts as a mentor to a number of arts and culture leaders through Business for the Arts. Former board positions include The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Honens, Mount Royal University and is a current public member of the College of Alberta Psychologists. She is the recent recipient of the IWF Luminary Award (2020) and the YWCA’s She Who Dares (2017).

Her extensive background in post-secondary education and reconciliation served ViTreo well in her Project Director roles in a variety of projects.

Michèle speaks French, some Spanish, and a little Latin. She summited Mount Kilimanjaro and joined her guru Youngey Mingyur Rinpoche for a pilgrimage through the Himalayas to his hometown of Nubri. She enjoys writing, collecting arrowheads found on the shore of Lake Manitoba, Mozart, birdwatching and sunsets.