Michelle Gonzalez

My Proposition:
Organizations as living structures

Current Projects:
Jewelers of America, project manager
Providence Connects, lead
OSHEAN Community Forum
Institute for Teaching and Learning, Roger Williams University
Entrepreneur's Forum of New England, co-founder

New Commons' Forum:
Soul at Work: Women leading in their own terms

My Great Reading:
The Company We Keep, Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place by John Abrams.
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Michelle Gonzalez’s work is in reshaping organizations and teams to embrace network thinking and project flow to meet immediate and emerging operational and functional needs. Her focus is in project management, social marketing and behavior change.  She has 14 years experience working in public health, wellness, and organizational development field.  She is a consultant and co-owner or New Commons, Inc.

In our consulting work she develops and implements projects around human capital mobilization, innovative organizational structures, implementing multi-site events, group facilitation as a visualizer, and organizational change projects with a focus on individuals and groups. Her current research work involves codifying non-organization, organizations processes and structures as an application to platform leadership.  Another research project is in leadership as storytelling; an educative and facilitative process to evolve workplaces for the future. Her intellectual and creative interests lie in linking cultural mythos, artistic inspiration and modern structures to create fuller economic and social interactions.

As health advocate and change agent she has brought together groups to target the workplace as an intervention.  From 1999- 2000, she was the president for the regional chapter of the National Association of Worksite Health Promotion, currently a chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. In this capacity she set in motion redefining the regional Association’s role by creating networks for professionals to share best practices and knowledge, and developing a functional collaboration with other organizations with similar missions.  The role also involved marketing and funding a regional annual conference for over 200 health promotion professionals.

From 1997 – 2001 Michelle worked as a project manager and senior health educator at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, in Wellesley, Massachusetts.  Working with client organizations, she designed and implemented targeted programs that respect individual readiness to adopt health habits along with social, cultural and environmental factors.  From 1989 – 1997 she worked as a fitness trainer and certification specialists for personal trainers and coaches; was the Fitness and Wellness Director for the National Fire Protection Association, where she directed the onsite fitness club, and implemented a wellness program as a way to bring community to the employees and management of NFPA.

Michelle has a BA in English from Wesleyan University, MPH from Boston University and an executive development certificate from Boston College’s Leadership for Change, a twelve-month leadership program for change agents.