Michelle Corrigan recording the Ctrl+Care podcast live at a conference

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Michelle Corrigan is an award-winning executive leader and doctoral researcher who makes the future of work genuinely gripping, helping leaders design organisations, systems and technology around human beings rather than the mythical ideal worker.

“It’s our responsibility as leaders to create people-shaped jobs, not expect job-shaped people.”

Michelle Corrigan,
Founder of People Shaped Work

Panel discussion at REWIRED 2025 event, with four people seated on stage and one person speaking at a podium, audience watching in a large indoor venue.

Topics Michelle loves to talk about:

  • Is burnout a design failure, not a personal one?
  • Are we designing organisations for people who no longer exist? The ideal worker myth.
  • Does AI expose organisational problems rather than solve them?
Is trust infrastructure?
  • What does genuinely people-shaped leadership look like?

“I don’t think a thought leader means being the loudest person talking about a subject, although I can do that too. It means having something distinctive and useful to say, being able to support it with evidence and experience, and ultimately changing how other people think or what they do.

Michelle Corrigan,

There’s nothing dry about Michelle’s delivery.

Audiences leave buoyed, entertained, and quoting her back to each other in the meeting notes. Trained in executive presence at RADA Business, she uses her Northern wit and gift of the gab to hold a room, or gently rub it up the wrong way when ideas need to be challenged.

  • “She has that rare ability to read a room almost instantly and adapt her style to her audience. She can make even the driest subjects, such as data protection, engaging, funny and memorable. I have often heard people talk about her presentations long after an event has finished.”

    Nada Wakeford,
    Sussex Care Association

  • “Michelle is a charismatic leader and a rare combination of a strategic thinker who gets things done. She is an exceptional speaker who makes difficult concepts interesting and easy to follow.”

    Melanie Weatherley MBE,
    Chair, Care Association Alliance

  • “Michelle is a natural communicator who combines authority with genuine warmth. She has the ability to engage a room without creating distance between herself and her audience. That ability to connect with people, while still being prepared to challenge and ask difficult questions, makes her a highly credible and engaging leader and speaker.”

    Emily Spurrell,
    Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside,
    and Chair, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners

Get in touch to book Michelle
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