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What if work felt like play… every single day?

Michelle Villalobos — AKA: The Superstar Activator — is the Host of the Awaken Your Inner Superstar Podcast and Creator of the “Superstar” Brand and Business Model. Her mission is to activate “Superstars,” thought leaders, speakers, authors, experts, consultants, and other service-based entrepreneurs, to grow contribution-focused, lifestyle-friendly businesses — WITHOUT sacrificing themselves in the process.

Many Superstars face the daunting challenge of how to scale… THEMSELVES. While their work is rewarding and creative, it can also be exhausting, highpressure, and require travel and personal appearances, such that they are constantly “singing for their supper.” No fun! Michelle’s programs and her “Superstar Model” helps Superstars “monetize their magic” in leveraged, scalable and sustainable ways.

Background

Michelle has been an accomplished speaker for over a decade, with a variety of programs and speeches around personal branding, business alignment, personal empowerment and business growth. She and her team provide retreats, seminars, webinars and resources to help contribution-driven leaders step into brands and business models that create stability, grace, ease and flow. She has delivered these programs for companies like American Express, Bacardi, Burger King, Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust, Lloyd’s of London, Lexis-Nexis and Audi LatAm.

The Miami Herald named Michelle one of Miami’s “Top 20 Under 40” in 2011, and in 2013, she won The Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge for co-founding the Personal Branding self-study program, Make Them BEG. She was named #5 on Evan Carmichael's “Top 100 Small Business Experts to Follow on Twitter” and has been featured on the front page of the Chicago Tribune’s Business Section, CNN en Español, Lifetime TV, Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and more. Michelle also founded “The Women’s Success Summit,” which was Miami’s largest conference for entrepreneurial women for 8 years.

Michelle is entering her 5th year as a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is one of relatively few female members of its Million Dollar Speakers Group. She has been chosen to present to audiences of her esteemed colleagues at the Annual NSA Winter Conference, Summer Conference, local chapters, and recently co-chaired the NSA Brand Lab.

Education

Michelle has studied everything from comedy sketch writing and improv theater to Advanced Accounting and Statistical Regression Analysis (yes she’s a bit of a geek). She holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in Psychology Modified (with Mathematics), and an MBA in International Business from The University Of Miami, from which she graduated #1 in her class with a 4.0.