Keynotes, leadership development, volunteer activation and event emcee — built around the moment in your room that can change everything.
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Before Michelle Marie King commanded stages or created a company devoted to changing lives, she was learning how to reclaim her own — becoming a lifeline to herself long before she ever became a mentor to the masses.
Her story has taken her from international runways and pageant stages to entrepreneurship, motherhood, mental health advocacy, and the founding of Positive Presence Global — the oldest & largest life coaching company for teens and young adults in North America, built on one deeply personal conviction: the right person, at the right moment, can change the trajectory of a life.
What began with Michelle mentoring young women grew into something far bigger. She built a new model for human connection — recruiting, developing, and leading a team of professional coaches who have walked alongside thousands of young people and families through some of the moments that matter most.
Michelle learned that changing a life and changing a room begin in exactly the same place: with one person willing to see what others miss, say what others won't, and show up when it matters most. Her mission is to awaken that possibility in all of us — to connect more deeply, believe more boldly, and recognize the extraordinary power of our presence.
Today, Michelle brings that perspective to stages, leadership teams, nonprofits, and organizations ready for something more than another presentation. She doesn't teach from theory. She teaches from what she's lived, what she's built, and what she's watched change lives.
Every room carries its own distinct energy, shaped by the people within it.
Sometimes it’s:
Different rooms. Different reasons for gathering. The same extraordinary opportunity to create a moment people carry with them when they leave.
Michelle doesn’t enter a room simply to deliver a message. She enters it looking for the moment that can change everything — then builds an experience around the people, the purpose, and the possibility already waiting there.
“The missing piece we hadn’t realized was missing.”
“She makes you feel seen. She makes you feel heard. She makes you feel like what you have to say genuinely matters.”
“Michelle listened until she understood not only what we do, but why it matters. Then she helped our audience understand it too.”
“By far, the best money we spent on our event.”
Eva Sophia Project Benefit
We hired Michelle King to emcee our third annual Eva Sophia Project Benefit, and without a doubt, she was the best money we spent on any single element of our event.
What sets Michelle apart begins long before she ever steps onstage.
Rather than simply asking us to tell her about our organization, Michelle asked to come to our programming and spend time with the young adults with developmental disabilities we serve. I had originally told each of them they would have about five minutes with her. Michelle never set a timer. She listened.
One four-hour evening wasn’t enough. She came back for another four-hour evening because she wanted to make sure everyone who wanted to be heard had the opportunity to be heard.
Our young adults fell in love with her.
Michelle has an extraordinary ability to be completely present with the person in front of her. She makes you feel seen. She makes you feel heard. She makes you feel like what you have to say genuinely matters. And there was nothing performative about it. The Michelle they experienced sitting across from them during those interviews was the same Michelle our audience experienced onstage.
“She makes you feel seen. She makes you feel heard. She makes you feel like what you have to say genuinely matters.”
At our event, Michelle shared something Eva had told her. She explained that when she asked Eva what it had been like after graduating from her transition program, Eva paused and answered: “I felt all alone.”
Four words—and there was the heart of why the Eva Sophia Project exists.
That is Michelle’s gift.
As founders, we can know our mission intimately and care about it passionately, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we are the people best equipped to communicate its heart to an audience. Michelle listened until she understood not only what we do, but why it matters. Then she helped our audience understand it too.
We had live music, food trucks, auctions and activities happening simultaneously that day. Yet when Michelle spoke, people listened. She wove the stories she’d heard from Eva, Sophia, Emily, Joe and others throughout the program in a way that was genuine, compelling and beautifully connected to our mission.
Behind the scenes, she was equally impressive. We gave Michelle a very rigid timeline and virtually no written material. She ran with it—writing her own script, providing it well in advance for our review and learning our organization so thoroughly that by event day, we trusted her completely to speak freely. Transitions, performer introductions and timing went off without a hitch, and when the room needed a change in energy for our live auction, Michelle brought it.
But perhaps what meant the most to me was watching our mission become important to her. The stories she heard moved her. She began thinking of people she wanted to introduce us to—people who might be able to help, and people she believed needed to know about what we were doing. She wasn’t simply communicating our mission anymore. She had become invested in it.
For three years, we had poured tremendous heart into this event. What we hadn’t realized was that we needed someone who could take all of that heart and communicate it to an audience in a way we couldn’t do ourselves.
“Michelle was the missing piece we hadn’t realized was missing.”
There are plenty of people who can stand on a stage, hold a microphone and keep an event moving. Michelle can certainly do all of those things exceptionally well.
But that’s not what makes Michelle King special.
It’s her heart.
If another nonprofit leader asked me whether hiring Michelle was worth the investment, my answer would be easy: Without a doubt. By far, the best money we spent on our event. I wouldn’t hesitate for one second to hire her again.
Made of Magic is Michelle at her most unguarded — the story of losing herself, finding her way home, and discovering along the way that none of us becomes who we are alone. What began as Michelle’s story became the philosophy beneath nearly everything she does today: how she leads, how she speaks, how she mentors, and why she believes so fiercely in the power we hold in one another’s lives.
Michelle founded Positive Presence Global on the belief that no one should have to navigate the most defining seasons of their life alone. What began with Michelle personally mentoring young women has grown across three countries into a professional coaching organization devoted to creating the kind of human connection that can alter the trajectory of a life.
Through deeply personal one-to-one coaching and mentorship, Positive Presence connects teens, young adults, and parents with professional coaches who listen without judgment, challenge with intention, and help them build the confidence, resilience, self-awareness, and real-world skills to navigate life more successfully.
What began as Michelle’s belief in the power of one person showing up for another has become something far greater than she could have created alone: a community of extraordinary people devoted to helping the next generation recognize their worth, find their way forward, and believe in what’s possible for their lives.
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