Michelle Maldonado is Founder and CEO of Lucenscia (pronounced: loo-SENSE-see-ah), a firm dedicated to human flourishing and mindful business transformation. She is an internationally certified mindfulness and emotional intelligence teacher and practitioner with the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Genos International and GolemanEI, respectively.

She is a former corporate and tech attorney turned business
leader who understands diverse industry sectors, mission, and
service. Michelle is passionate about learning, helping elevate human
consciousness and alleviating suffering in the world. Her work
focuses on personal and professional leadership development at
the pivotal intersection of mindfulness, unconscious bias,
emotional intelligence, authenticity, and compassion, nestled on a
solid foundation of neuroscience and research and taught through
an equity lens to help leaders do their inner work to create
positive and sustainable outer impact.

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Michelle also serves as Senior Faculty for 1440 Multiversity's
Leadership Center, founding faculty for Daniel Goleman's
inaugural Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification program
and Senior Fellow with Bill George's True North Leadership
program, co-teaching with Bill George (former CEO of Medtronic)
and Scott Kriens (Chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks) at 1440 Multiversity Retreat Center. She is a highly, sought-after keynote speaker, thought leader and strategist collaborating with government agencies, corporations, non-profits/NGOs and higher-ed communities worldwide helping to make workplaces and world places more human.

As a result of her work and impact, Michelle has been recognized
among the “12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness
Movement” (U.S. 2020), as “Woman of The Year,” “Top Corporate
Leader,” and inducted into the Golden Key International Honour
Society for her holistic approach to cultivating leadership
presence, compassion, well-being, and cultures of belonging and inclusion as well as purposeful performance and impact.

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Michelle is a graduate of Barnard College at Columbia University
and The George Washington University School of Law. She hails from Cape Cod, MA and has resided in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with her family since 1993.  Michelle recently was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates as a representative for the 50th District in Northern Virginia.

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• Her favorite saying: What happens to one of us, happens to all of us.

• Purpose & calling: To help alleviate suffering in the world

• Descriptor: Bridge-builder

• Most recent Compassion Project: A Bridge To Better: A Family's Open Letter and Invitation to Humanity with Free Resource Guide