Michelle March, MSW, MBA, MBTI, PhD

Dr. Michelle March, the founder of Reaching for the Stars, is a seasoned professor, research-practitioner, and organizational consultant. She is passionate about developing people and executive framework through a cross-discipline approach, including business administration, educational psychology, behavioral analysis, and human services. By integrating years of psychology and human development with her evidence-based practice on business aspects of leadership and communication development, Dr. March skillfully advances individuals and teams. She believes that self-awareness is a main factor to act and work toward a vision to be an effective leader, connected communicator, and engaged collaborator. 

She has more than 20 years of experience, which includes 10 years of teaching, developing curriculum across higher educational institutions (both on-line and campus), and 20 years of executive coaching, training, and consulting across organizational context. Her skillful, eclectic approach combined with scholarly knowledge, practical application, and business experience creates the perfect combination for helping individuals and organizations align their mission and vision to achieve goals. 

Dr. March thrives in challenging environments and has a keen eye toward detail. She is comfortable, dedicated, and adept working with individuals and teams of variable disciplines and can skillfully integrate leadership across contextual environments to effectively manage schemes, analyze situations, drive results, and share solutions while building relationships through inclusion. 

A powerful and prolific communication, Dr. March has built a reputation as a respected thought leader with high integrity and honesty. She promotes evidence-based professional development tactics and is a skilled mentor, ensuring excellence with her motivating approach. With a well-rounded in teaching/training pedagogy, she proficient in research, coaching, assessment, and curriculum/training development across many different organizational contexts. 

Dr. March is conversant with numerous tests, measurement, and assessment methodologies and also a co-author of a scale-measuring online course teaching effectiveness. Her research focuses on online teaching effectiveness; encompassing epistemology and metacognition of the learning process relational to student/client outcome and academic/organizational success via motivational strategies; effective teaching; systematized planning; organizational leadership development, behavior, personality traits, and cognitive psychology.