Michelle Morgan is a Chief of Staff-style leader and senior marketing and communications professional with 30+ years’ experience helping organisations navigate complexity, align stakeholders, and turn strategy into coordinated delivery. She’s worked across elite sport, major events, charities and public-sector environments - settings where reputation, culture and multi-stakeholder relationships matter, and where leaders need clear operating rhythm to keep momentum.
Michelle has held senior roles across marketing, communications, partnerships and stakeholder relations, including a decade with the Australian Football League and over 10 years with Populous (global sports and venue architects). Her work has included building brands, managing media and PR, leading internal and external communications, and supporting large programmes and organisational change - including integrating teams following an acquisition and helping leaders bring people through change rather than forcing it through.
She has long-standing board exposure (executive and trustee) and is currently building her UK non-executive portfolio, motivated by organisations with strong purpose and a clear “why”. She’s also comfortable stepping into unfamiliar sectors quickly - learning the language fast, asking the questions others do not, and creating clarity where teams feel stretched or stuck.
Michelle is best suited to founders and leadership teams who are growing, changing or under strain - especially where the real challenge is not “more ideas”, but alignment, communication and execution. She’s a strong fit for purpose-led organisations, community-driven products or services, and any business operating in a sensitive stakeholder environment (customers, partners, communities, regulators, members). She can be valuable even at pre-revenue stage, particularly for founders who want to build the culture and operating rhythm properly from the start.
A 1:1 with Michelle is a practical working session and typically focuses on:
Michelle can support as a mentor, advisor or fractional “extra body” alongside a leadership team for a defined period, and she is also building toward NED and trustee roles. She also brings connections and perspective from the Australia ecosystem when that’s useful.
