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Michelle’s Story
A woman who represents the American Dream in the 21st century, Michelle is a voice for today’s working mothers and CEOs who don’t just talk about balance as a concept,butinstead work to find it daily.
A successful entrepreneur, she started her first company at 25 after she did a stint as an Air Force Officer. She had a successful five-year run, and started to expand. Her expansion efforts didn’t quite work out the way she planned and by 1996, she had two failed businesses behind her. She took an “employed” vacation, and regrouped. In 2000, as a single mother, with some new tools in her toolbox, she set out again to live the entrepreneurial dream. In less than seven years, she grew her company, Cheetah Learning, from three employees to over 100 employees, contractors and licensees worldwide.
She is passionate about giving back and letting others learn from both her successes and failures, and that is why she began writing books. Her first book, Cheetah Project Management, grew out of her experiences as an Air Force Officer in the mid ‘80s. It was in the Air Force that she began developing the project management techniques that would be the centerpiece of her business and that would also be the foundation of her personal effectiveness.
She wrote her second book, Cheetah Negotiations, because she realized that many projects succeeded or failed based on negotiations skills. She wanted to take the fear out of negotiations and make it accessible in the same way that her Cheetah Learning has made project management and PMP certification accessible.
As she watched Wall Street melt down in September of ’08, she finished her first e-book, Spiritual Money. It is filled with common sense wisdom that takes the fear mongering out of finance and puts the power where it belongs -- in the hands and the hearts of every individual.
Known for her down-to-earth and inspirational approach to business, Michelle’s fourth book, Cheetah Know How, is a “greatest hits” collection of her monthly column, The Know How Network. This column is distributed to over 400 publications globally.
The Lazy Person's Guide to Weight Loss is a humorous and intimate discussion of Michelle’s response to a personal health issue and what she uncovered along the way. She discovered that some of our basic assumptions about well-being are false and created by a billion dollar weight loss industry. Don’t worry; it’s not a downer at all. There are a lot of laughs and ideas to get your own well-being on the road to recovery.
Cheetah Accelerated Exam Prep Workbook, is a guide to passing exams at Cheetah Speed.
Business in a Backpack, to be published in 2009, is a handbook for road warriors and virtual mangers everywhere. Michelle shares what is in her backpack and gets you to thinking about what should be in yours.
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All of Michelle’s books can be purchased on Amazon.com at The Cheetah Store.
Cheetah Learning provides project management training and PMP PMI certification at locations in the US and around the world.
“PMI” is a service and trademark and “PMP” and the PMP logo are certification marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. which are registered in the United States and other nations.