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Michelle Burke
Michelle M. Burke is a published Author,
Consultant and Co-Founder of Interact Games LLC.
She consults and coaches to individuals,
entrepreneurs and organizations to communicate
more effectively, focus on results and "own vs.
rent" their jobs. She promotes a "solution and
service mindedness" and emphasizes the Five Core
Competencies.
 Her
passion is to find ways to contribute to the
development of high-performance teams in business
and in education. Michelle specializes in bridging
communication gaps between all levels of
management and staff. She was Founder and
President of Executive Counterparts™, an
innovative consulting and training company
providing expertise and coaching to support staff
and their managers. She founded the Company in
1992 and sold it in 2004.
Some of her clients include: The Walt Disney Co.,
Visa International, McDonalds, E*Trade, Stanford
University, General Motors, Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago, Ernst & Young, Intel, Hewlett Packard,
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Chicago, Northern
Telecom, Microsoft, Discovery Foods and Cisco
Systems.
In 1997, Michelle authored the acclaimed book,
The Valuable Office Professional, endorsed by Ken
Blanchard. She also co-developed The
Productivity Cycle™, a communication tool proven
to enhance teamwork and increase productivity.
Business Week's Frontier Magazine featured
Michelle on their June 1999 cover and in a story
on becoming a guru in the field. Michelle has also
been featured in the Los Angeles Times, San
Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Wall
Street Journal, Star Ledger and has been quoted in
a variety of publications including Cosmopolitan,
Glamour, HR and Training Magazine. She has
appeared on numerous local and national radio and
television programs and won the regional 1999
Working Woman's Entrepreneurial Excellence Award.
Michelle was a syndicated, feature columnist on
Officeclick.com website for working administrative
professionals. Michelle is an articulate
motivational speaker whose humour, wit and
enthusiasm motivates and inspires her audience.
After nearly twenty years in business, she has
trained and coached over 50,000 staff. She finds
endless opportunities to help individuals see
their value and contribution allowing them to be
more successful in their ever-changing roles.
Michelle's entrepreneurial spirit has inspired her
to develop communication games for work, play and
home by partnering with Lilamani de Silva from the
UK. Their first was a training tool called
INTERACT
IceBreaker™ and teamBuilder™,
experience the
power of play at work. Two games in one were
designed to help organizations to have
values-based dialogs about business
related-topics. This niche allows Managers,
Departmental Heads and others who want to take
the lead in their organization bring people
together to build cohesive and collaborative
teams.
Michelle also gets tremendous joy in giving back
to her community through volunteer work. She has
been a volunteer with The American Cancer Society
and participated in Team in Training to benefit
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She is a
current member of Ladies Who Launch.
Lilamani de Silva
Lilamani de Silva was trained in the sciences, marketing and psychology receiving her Masters in Biochemistry at the University of Otago, New Zealand. In an effort to further her career she moved to the UK.
With a need to express a latent creative bent she moved from the microscopic to the macroscopic accepting the post of Clinical Audit Facilitator, at a London based hospital to Asst Press Officer at London Zoo. Her strategic nous, combined with her people skills were invaluable in structuring both fledgling departments, prompting, a career that has spanned a number of interesting avenues; including life coaching, as well as the research, development and production of programmes for television. It was during one of these forays that she then met her colleagues, like minded enterprising, entrepreneurs who were keen to engage in what was then just a concept. Today INTERACT is a reality and a passion come true.
Lilamani's broad range of experiences, knowledge and interaction past and present with people from all walks of life have served her well in identifying how businesses and the people they employ can best serve one another. It is the application of these skills in combination that makes this unique team-building tool so effective.
"From the wealth of experience I have gained I have come to the conclusion that there's a real need for effective communication in the workplace, which can either make or break a company. I wanted people to get back to basics, to sit around a table to come face to face with each other, to discuss differences, and to solve these issues with respect. It's important to feel valued and heard, while having fun. I hope you too can share our vision".
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