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Meet Michelle

Michelle Burns,
Professional Certified Coach, Design Your Destiny

Living in the countryside of the Minnesota River Valley, Michelle has an appreciation of the earth and nature and the deep wisdom, abundance and beauty therein.  She believes that like nature, each person is comprised of innate wisdom, abundance and beauty.  She also knows that the earth is a great role model in balance and renewal, sustaining practices and honoring the present.

Insight and a natural ability to resonate with the intense energy of the world is a strength that allows Michelle to access truths which may be hidden to others.  With this unique strength, she encourages clients to focus on a life-enhancing path.   Michelle knows it is futile and depleting of energy to focus on scarcity, fears and weakness.  Therefore she coaches with a generative focus, using energy for cultivating strengths, mining for more of what’s working and expanding what is possible, sprinkled with lightness and fun too.


Michelle founded Design Your Destiny in 1999 to provide professional coaching, workshops, retreats and training.  She calls forth her clients to lead their lives and businesses with heart and to have the courage to make alive choices.    She enjoys serving leaders, executives and business owners because they are designing their destiny.  

“Every Mighty Oak was once a Nut that Stood Its Ground”  --Unknown


A Certified Professional Co-Active™Coach since 2000, Michelle has experience in private practice serving individuals and organizations.  She also has served in the corporate coaching arena, three years as a Leadership and Business Development Coach for independent direct sales professionals in a top INC 500 organization.

Background
    Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation
    Certified Professional CoActive™ Coach, the Coaches Training Institute
    Graduate as Trainer for Adler International Learning, Positive Change: 
    Leader As Coach Program © 
    Graduate of Foundations of Ontological Learning, Newfield Network
    Graduate of “The Choice in Coaching: Arbinger Mastery Training for Coaches”
    Graduate of Co-Active Leadership Program, Co-Active Space
    Graduate of Explode Your Business and Income program
    Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst in DISC Style Analysis.
    Member of Minnesota Coaches Association-past Membership Team Leader
    13 years in Sales and Key Account Management
    B.A. in Business Administration and Spanish

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.-- Peter Marshall