Engaging. Entertaining. Insightful. Bring Michele to your event!
Looking for a speaker who sparks conversations, inspires action, and makes learning resonate?
Michele blends passion, humor, and real-world insight to create unforgettable experiences for your audience. Whether she’s helping people translate farm to food, communicate science with confidence, or manage stress in agriculture, Michele connects with hearts to move minds. She’ll work with you to craft a talk that leaves people thinking, energizes new ideas, and equips attendees with tools they can use right away. Ready to bring fresh perspective and lasting impact to your event? Let’s make it happen! Learn more here.
Interactive & Insightful Keynotes & Workshops
Energetic Keynotes for Agriculture
Michele delivers dynamic keynotes that blend real-life farm experiences with humor, candor, and powerful insights. Whether she’s addressing farmers, ranchers, agribusiness leaders, or scientists, she connects on a personal level—moving hearts and equipping minds with fresh perspectives. With an engaging style and a deep understanding of agriculture’s challenges, Michele sparks meaningful conversations that inspire action long after the event ends.
- A.I. & Agriculture: Reaching into the Future (New!): Explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping farming, misinformation about food production, and consumer trust.
- Take Food Bullying by the Horns: Learn how neuroscience can build consumer confidence and better understand marketing creating confusion in the grocery store.
- Resiliency for Agriculture: Surviving the Darkest Storms: Identify chronics stressors in farming & ranching with heartfelt look at overcoming adversity & address mental health. .
- Translating Farm to Food: Creating a Different Conversation: Bridge the gap around contentious issues like animal welfare, chemicals, GMOs, antibiotics, hormones, etc.
- Celebrating Agriculture!:A lively and uplifting keynote that honors the people and stories behind our food. You'll consider the people, promise, and passion in our business.
Engaging Workshops for Agriculture
Michele’s interactive workshops equip agricultural professionals, farmers, ranchers, and ag leaders with the skills they need to communicate effectively, navigate challenges, and strengthen connections in today’s evolving food and farming landscape. Whether you're looking to improve science communication, manage stress, or strengthen industry advocacy, Michele will customize each workshop to provide practical tools that attendees can immediately apply to their work.
- Science Story Speak (New!): Learn how to simplify complex science and tell compelling stories that engage consumers, policymakers, and media
- A.I. & Agriculture: Reaching into the Future (New!): Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming farming and perceptions about food —and how to stay ahead.
- Stress Management for SMART Business: Practical, science-backed strategies to manage stress, boost productivity, and build resilience in high-pressure agricultural environments
- Championing Agriculture: Strengthen your ability to connect around the food plate and talk about contentious issues—whether on social media, in policy discussions, or face-to-face.
- Take Food Bullying by the Horns: Gain the tools to combat misinformation by understanding neuroscience and neuromarketing around modern agricultural practices.
Dietitian & Nutrition Professional Training
Are you tired of the marketing myths surrounding food, fad diets pushed by celebrities, or the drama surrounding nutrition and health? Michele speaks from the intersection of farm and food, head and heart. She is uniquely equipped to help dietetic and healthcare professionals with her firsthand expertise, sound science, and research from writing three books.
Not-For-Profit & Association Programs
Ready to elevate your community engagement and sponsorship strategy to a new level? Michele has raised $1.5 million for local capital campaigns, managed more than $5 million in corporate sponsorships in 15 states, and built international communities. She encourages interaction and guides teams through a variety of exercises.
Science + Communication
Is science losing credibility? Do people trust your work as a scientist? Are you able to effectively convey what you do in a short conversation? Michele will help you with a six-step communication plan to illustrate what you do as a scientist as you step out of the ivory tower. Her thought-provoking work shows you the value of a one-on-one conversation to build understanding.
- Science Story Speak
- Personalized Coaching
- Making Science Sexy: Communicating Your Relevancy
What do meeting planners and conference attendees say?
You are a gift to agriculture, you do an amazing job connecting non-ag folks to agriculture. You do this in a relatable and logical way that's welcoming and opens the door to a deeper understanding of ag.
Keep doing a fabulous job. I look forward to collaborating with you more." — Lana Frantzen, Ph.D., RDN, DairyMAX
Michele brought an energetic delivery and valuable insights as our keynote speaker during our annual conference. She challenged us, as scientists, to step outside our "science comfort zone" and actively share our expertise with a broader audience. Her workshop was especially effective, with role-playing exercises that gave us practical tools to handle various communication challenges, making her message truly resonate."
— Christi Calhoun, PhD – American Meat Science Association
Michele provided a safe, enthusiastic, and understanding environment for our producers to address difficult topics, such as mental health and managing stress. She combined science with reality to connect with the audience and show them the importance of taking care of themselves, just as well as they care for their animals and businesses."
— Zoey Dinkla, Iowa Pork
Partial Client List
- Agriculture Future of America
- AgStar Financial Services, ACA
- Alberta Milk
- Alpha Zeta
- Ag CIO Roundtable
- AgChoice Farm Credit
- American Agri-Women
- American Dairy Science Assoc.
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- American Meat Science Assoc.
- American Soybean Assoc.
- Apple Proccessors Assoc.
- Bayer CropScience
- Canadian Farm Business Management Council
- CNFA/USAID Ukraine
- Commodity Classic
- Dairy & Nutrition Council of Indiana Dietitians Summit
- Elanco Animal Health
- Farm Credit Council of America
- Fastline Publications
- Genome Prairie
- Great Lakes Fruit & Vegetable Expo
- Idaho Dairymen
- Independent Seed Professionals Association
- Indiana Dietetic Assoc.
- International Food Information Council
- Kansas Soybean Assoc.
- Kentucky Agriculture Council
- Legacy Farm Credit
- Manitoba Canola Growers
- MFA
- Michigan Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
- Michigan State University Alumni Association
- National Association of Ag Extension Agents
- National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
- National Hog Farmer
- National Onion Growers
- New York State Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
- Northwest Farm Credit
- South Carolina Farm Bureau
- Washington State Hay Growers Association
- Wisconsin Dietetic Association
- Women in Agribusiness
