About Jackie Michel

Guiding families toward gratitude, connection, and resilience.

Over the course of her career, Jackie has impacted thousands through counseling, coaching, consulting, and workshops for women, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. Her work is grounded in the belief that all people can thrive, contribute, and make a difference in the world.

Jackie's interest in gratitude grew while partnering with her son, an environmental educator, to inspire parents to host eco-friendly birthday parties. As she created thank you notes for children, she dove into the scientific research on gratitude and its relationship to happiness and caring for the natural world.

Portrait of Jackie Michel

Background

Education
  • Masters Degree - Simmons College
  • Bachelors Degree - Simmons College, Oberlin College
  • Executive Challenge and Mastery programs - Gap International
  • Coaching for Clinicians - MentorCoach.com
  • Continuing education in psychotherapy, brain science, positive psychology, mindfulness, leadership, and transformation
Honors
  • Women in Business Award, Utica, NY
  • Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International, Utica Club
Personal
  • Volunteer, Onondaga Earth Corps
  • Co-creator, Grandparents Connection at the Montessori School of Syracuse
  • Grandmother of six, ages 12 to 23
  • Member, satellite environmental club of the New Hartford, NY Rotary
  • Husband Peter Michel is a nationally known sculptor with public art across the US