Michelle is a coach and assessor on the Conflict Dynamics mediator skills training course. She believes in mediation as a life skill and for 12 years offered training to candidate attorneys for the LSSA School for Legal Practice in High Court practice, appropriate dispute resolution, labour dispute resolution, and mediation skills.

She is a guest lecturer at Stellenbosch University in mediation ethics and workplace discrimination; provides training to corporate clients in mediation skills and disciplinary processes and assisted in developing and delivering course materials for UCT in workplace mediation; and in developing a dispute resolution approach to disciplinary issues using mediation as a core principle for UKZN. She also co-developed training material on ethical principles in healthcare for the World Bank Group and a medico-legal risk mitigation package for compliance and training for Extraordinary Hospitals of Africa.

Michelle is an arbitrator, facilitator and mediator and a member of the Conflict Dynamics panel of mediators being an accredited commercial, workplace, RAF and medico-legal mediator. She has led pilot interventions to improve dispute resolution access in the Durban & Western Cape Labour Courts and participated extensively in the RAF & Gauteng Health Department mediation pilot projects and is currently involved in the Western Cape Health Department pilot project.

She is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa, specialising in labour and employment law and is company secretary for a Norwegian shipping company.

Michelle has Master's (LLM Dispute Resolution (cum laude) 2025) and undergraduate degrees (BA-Law 1993) from the University of Stellenbosch; and LLB (1995) and PG Diploma in Maritime Law (1998) from  the University of KZN. She holds civil & commercial mediation accreditation recognised by Conflict Dynamics (2008).

Michelle is able to conduct training in English.