​Michelle King

Teaches at Be Social Change

Michelle King is a leading global expert in gender and organizations. She is a keynote speaker, researcher, writer, and advocate. Michelle has significant international experience advancing women in innovation and technology, leading global diversity and inclusion programs and advocating for women at work. Michelle currently leads UN Women’s gender innovation work focused on leveraging innovation and technology to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment. In addition, Michelle is an Advisory Board member for Girl Up, the United Nations Foundation’s adolescent girl campaign where she lends her expertise to the growth and sustainability of the movement.
Michelle is also the host of The Fix, a podcast that shares how men and women are innovating to advance equality. On the show, Michelle interviews a range of business leaders, advocates and thought leaders like Sarah Jessica Parker, Zoe Saldana, Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, Justin Baldoni, Wade Davis, and Katty Kay to name a few.
Michelle has spoken at numerous conferences including Ellevate Network Conference, She Summit, Ted X, Texas Conference for Women, and the Pennsylvania Conference for Women. As a thought leader, Michelle currently contributes to Forbes and Thrive Global on the topic of women’s advancement at work and she’s been published in Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Scoop and TIME magazine.
Michelle is a published, award-winning academic with a Masters in Psychology and an MBA. In addition, she is pursuing a PhD through Cranfield University in the United Kingdom on the topic of office politics, networks and gender in organizations.