Meet Michelle

Michelle Irving is a pioneer in chronic illness and leadership space, known for her transformative approach to balancing work and chronic health conditions. As the founder of Career and Chronic for professional women and Chronic Illness At Work for organisations, Michelle’s innovative companies provide a New Way Forward in managing your ambitions and your health.

Michelle gets it. While bed-bound twice in the past decade, she mastered the art of living well while experiencing serious illness. She is driven by a mission to transform our experience of work, love and life with illness.

Michelle teaches you how to create a life filled with love, meaningful work and deep personal power.  She believes we can all have a positive relationship with ourselves and meaningful work even in the midst of experiencing illness. Michelle is a gifted teacher, and is in demand globally as a speaker and writer.

Michelle also has a comprehensive career in the industry spanning over fifteen years, and her work is underpinned by extensive training in somatic therapy, cancer survivorship and women's leadership.

Her life's work and living legacy are dedicated to empowering people while they live with chronic illness.