Bio

Michelle Gislason, MA, is a Senior Project Director at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. She is responsible for the program creation and management of CompassPoint’s leadership programs, including the Coaching and Philanthropy Initiative and the Leadership Development Program for Executives Serving Transition-Age Youth. She is a trainer and coach for CompassPoint’s leadership series, “Thriving as an Executive Director,” and Bay Area LISC’s Community Development Leadership Institute, and recently co-authored the book “Coaching Skills for Nonprofits Managers and Leaders (Jossey-Bass). In addition to being a trainer, consultant, and certified organizational coach, Michelle is a trained facilitator in the Authenticity Circles© peer coaching model and an occasional guest lecturer at UC, Berkeley: Haas School of Business and San Francisco State University. She graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree and completed her Masters degree in Organizational Psychology in 2007.