President of Michelle Inc and Founder of Planet Joyride

For more than 20 years Michelle DeAngelis has been taking on impossible corporate challenges, solving them in record time and redefining corporate and personal coaching in the process.

Irreverent, vivacious and razor sharp, Michelle DeAngelis teaches executives, managers and individuals everywhere how to have a company, and a life, that, you guessed it . . . "Doesn't Suck."

As founder and President of a management consulting firm based in Santa Monica, California, Michelle has applied her joyful philosophy in the corporate arena for over 20 years. Her industry experience with Fortune 500 and other large clients spans finance, telecommunications, government, insurance, information technology and charitable organizations. A featured speaker on the topics of customer service, communication, leadership, and team building, Michelle is a powerful combination of creativity, analysis and big-picture thinking. Her coaching practice serves clients ranging from company presidents and division heads to writers, artists and stay-at-home moms.

Born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Michelle was heavily influenced by her entrepreneurial parents. They developed "Happiness Plaza" a shopping center filled with stores that were hand-picked to add a bit of happiness to each customer who shopped there. Although still a little girl, Michelle was paying attention.

In her mid twenties, Michelle was named division chief and tapped to create and manage a new division of 350 people for a Fortune 50 corporation. From there, Michelle started her own management consulting firm, Michelle Inc , where she does strategic planning, manages national projects for Fortune 500 companies, coaches executives and gives powerful presentations to bring a healthy dose of reality and life-affirming change to corporate America.

In 2004, born of Michelle's commitment to have a career that fused joy and purpose, she created Planet Joyride, a company dedicated to helping people create joy in their lives. Planet Joyride immediately resonated with people who had been through personal and professional experiences that left them wanting.

"In my years of work in corporate America, I've looked into thousands of dead eyes - that's a lot of joyless souls. So I decided to do something about it - to make a difference in people's lives by getting them living."

Michelle's meaningful and practical methods enable people to tap their authentic passion and purpose, magnifying creativity and productivity on both a professional and personal level. Her proprietary Joy Quotient quiz is essential to the process as it measures the gap between people's thoughts and their actions. Perhaps even more important than IQ or EQ, this Joy Quotient, (JQ) gives clients a game plan to generate joy, close the "Gap" and "Get A Life That Doesn't Suck".

"This isn't some lark without a plan and a purpose. This is a way of living. This is about consciously choosing everyday who/what/where you want to be."

Michelle lives in Santa Monica, CA and begins joyriding each morning when she looks out her window at the Pacific Ocean and the Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier.

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Lindsley Lowell
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lindsley@PlaceLA.com