Transformational Leadership Expert
Happy Clients
The best events change
hearts, minds, and futures!
But that kind of change doesn’t happen by accident. It takes intention, alignment, and the right energy.
That’s where Michelle Villalobos comes in.
She helps event leaders and professionals "Set The Stage" for gatherings that move people forward – not just intellectually or strategically, but also emotionally and energetically, often unlocking shifts that feel deeply personal and profound.
Because you don’t just want your audience to take notes, you want them to walk away transformed.
You want them to grow, bond, maybe even buy – and come back next time with friends, colleagues, or teammates in tow.
But the truth is: most events start in disconnection.
People arrive guarded, distracted, and divided – clinging to comfort zones, sitting in silos, or quietly sizing each other (and the event!) up. They bring their doubts, their stress, and sometimes even their judgments into the room.
And when that energy goes unchecked, even the best content can fall flat. Because no matter how great your speakers or sessions are, if the energy isn’t there… it just doesn’t land.
Michelle shifts that from the start.
Michelle Knows Events...
Clients all over the world trust Michelle because she doesn’t just deliver speeches, she brings a deep well of event experience to the table.
Whether you're looking for an opening keynote or full event strategy, design, and profitability support, Michelle can help. In addition to speaking, she's spent the past 17+ years leading her own successful events and honing event design and leadership strategies, activities, and modalities.
Check out the below videos to get a sense of her expertise, philosophy, and style.
Michelle Villalobos - Short Speaker Demo – Set The Stage For a Transformational Event
Michelle Villalobos - Short Speaker Demo – Set The Stage For a Transformational Event
How To Create A Sacred Space For An Event Or A Retreat
How To Create A Transformational Journey At Your Events Using The Arc Of Transformation
How To Deliver A Transformative Experience In A Retreat Or Small Event
Small Events, Big Back End: How To Turn Transformational Experiences Into Long-Term Revenues
How To Facilitate A Strategic Planning Retreat
Precedes
Energy
Outcomes
Before the keynotes. Before the breakouts. Before the networking...
What happens first creates the field for everything else.
With warmth, insight, and an uplifting presence, Michelle helps audiences feel safe enough to soften, brave enough to engage, and inspired enough to take action.
She creates an event container that:
✨ Opens hearts and minds
✨ Sparks authentic engagement
✨ Ignites community
✨ Increases back-end enrollment and membership
✨ Makes your event unforgettable – and unmissable
Because when attendees are aligned from the start, they become co-creators of the experience.
They lean in. They contribute. They help shape the field.
And they’re far more likely to stay present, find value, and contribute (even when things don’t go exactly as planned.)
And that’s what brings people back. Again and again.
Event Energy Isn't Just A Vibe. It's A Strategy.
Keynote
Experiences
Transformational Sessions That Spark Connection, Coherence & Community
Michelle’s doesn't deliver canned keynotes.
Instead, she co-creates (with your input) a custom experience that weaves together interactive modules, neurophysiological exercises, powerful stories, and moving performance pieces to awaken insight, shift energy, and ignite action.
She has 4 popular keynote "arcs" that clients love, plus a library of 12 modular sessions that can be added in, swapped out, or combined to create something entirely new.
Opening
Keynote
Set The Stage For A Transformational Experience
Lay the energetic foundation for your entire event with a potent Agreement Field that sets standards, invites personal responsibility, and ignites a culture of collective transformation.
Ideal for:
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Conference kickoffs
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Teams meeting for the first time
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Groups that are navigating difficult challenges and.or conflict
Outcome: A coherent room with clear standards, filled with energy-rich participants that are resourceful, grateful, and generous.
Transformational Keynote
Energy Precedes Outcomes: Unlock The Power Within & Transform Your Life
Michelle guides participants into heart-mind coherence, then walks them through interactive exercises for creating contribution and community – all while explaining the fascinating science behind how it all works.
Ideal for:
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Entrepreneur audiences
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Leaders
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Tech / science lovers
Outcome: A present and contribution-focused audience primed to be owners and active co-creators of the event experience.
Energetic Transmission
But I Want To FLY! An Adventure In Courage
A poetic, high-impact activation that unlocks courage, creativity, and heart-mind coherence. In this session your audience will release fear and regret, reclaim power, and connect with new possibilities – which inspires and energizes them for whatever follows.
Perfect for:
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Moments that call for courage
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Graduations / crossing of thresholds
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A preframe for calls to action
Outcome: An uplifted and courageous room, attuned to possibility.
Closing
Keynote
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Life-Changing Power of Context
Anchor the entire event experience to deliver lasting transformation. Participants will reflect on their journey and choose an empowering "story" about it that supports a new possibility in their lives, their leadership, and their legacy.
Perfect for:
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End of multi-day events
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Integration after intense learning and information
Outcome: A powerful shift in agency, insight, and intentional integration.
Custom
Collection
A library of interactive modules that can stand alone or be woven together to create a powerful, customized experience.
Establish An Agreement Field
Having shared agreements up front creates safety, builds trust, and sets a standard for participation and engagement. Michelle facilitates an agreement-setting session where audiences feel allegiance to and ownership of behaviors that will support event goals. (20 min)
We Come In Contribution
Inspire audience members to bring their "A-Game" and adopt a spirit of generosity, support, and care for others. Michelle shares a meaningful story to introduce this activity and then invites your audience to "share and declare" the gifts they're bringing to each other and to your event. (15 min)
Life Retrospective
In this reflective session, participants identify pivotal moments that shaped their lives, beliefs, and trajectories. This process unlocks authenticity, self-awareness, internal pattern-recognition, and a sense of "the dots connecting" in their lives. (3+ hours)
Engines & Anchors
This exercise helps participants identify the "engines" in their lives who energize and propel them forward and the (often well-meaning) "anchors" who weigh them down. Then we create strategies to manage these relationships more intentionally. (40+ minutes)
Transcending Polarity
This session reveals how polarities like good / bad, this / that, right / wrong – are illusions that can be collapsed into an infinite number of "3rd options." Participants learn to recognize polarity-thinking as signals of opportunities for expansion and evolution.
The Paradox Of Perspective
Give your audience the lived experience of seeing things from another perspective – and seeing how their own perspective can be flawed. This fun and lighthearted session brings about big a-has – encouraging people to open their minds and give others the benefit of the doubt. (30 min)
The Art of Witnessing
Fully seeing, receiving, and acknowledging others is a powerful skill for connection and leadership. Michelle leads your audience in a deeply moving interactive exercise that will "potentize" your event "field" and create deeper bonding onsite – and beyond. (15 min)
Meet Your Future Self
A guided visualization that connects participants to a wiser, more fully expressed version of themselves. This session reveals subconscious drives, hidden obstacles, and cultivates clarity, confidence, and deep trust in one's personal and/or professional path.
Sacred YES | Sovereign NO
An embodied exercise in feeling the energetic between an authentic YES and a boundary-protecting NO, then practicing declaring both. A favorite for cultivating self-leadership, personal power and enhanced decision-making. (30 minutes)
Closing Circle Ritual
Endings are just as important as beginnings. Michelle facilitates a closing circle in which each participant speaks aloud a new intention, vision, or identity update in front of a small group (or the entire group) anchoring their transformation in body, in voice, and in community.
Quick Coherence
Have you ever noticed that people sometimes show up to events guarded, resistant, or anxious? Give your audience members a 5-minute practice to calm their nervous system, regulate emotions, and prepare for engagement, connection, and learning. (5 min)
Your Inner Boardroom
We all have parts – aka: "sub-personalities – that sometimes pull us in different directions or even seem to "sabotage" us from doing what we want. This session guides audiences to meet one or more of these personas – and recruit them onto their internal board of advisors. (90 min)
Soul Sponsorship Sessions
Based on the principle that each of us carries a sacred offering for humanity, this exercise pairs participants to "sponsor" each other’s creative emergence. A powerful container for mutual recognition and support. (60+ minutes)
The Hall of Mirrors
Participants practice the art of witnessing others as a path to self-understanding – revealing how what we see in others is often a reflection of something within. This session invites individual self-awareness while deepening group bonds and long-term community.
Expression Excavation
Part scavenger hunt, part courage challenge, this team adventure pushes participants past their comfort zones and into suprstar self-expression. Teams take on bold, playful assignments while bonding, taking risks, and unlocking creativity and confidence.
Michelle brings 17+ years of experience designing and leading conferences, summits, seminars, workshops, retreats, and immersions. She approaches content development and experience design from three angles:
Gathering
The Art, Science, and Business of
THE ART
Creating spaces that feel safe, sacred, and inspired, so participants can let down their guard and open up to connection, insight, and transformation.
THE SCIENCE
Leveraging modalities like heart-brain coherence, neuroscience, and neurobiology to deepen
presence, increase connection, reduce resistance, and create memorable experiences that land.
THE BUSINESS
Aligning gatherings with the larger mission, message, and model for sustainable growth and profit – so your event doesn’t just feel good in the room, but moves the business forward after the lights go down.
Together, you'll co-create an experience that will
do more than just inspire... it will TRANSFORM.
Michelle's Seminar had me captivated for 2 hours!
– Dr. Todd Narson, DC
Meet Michelle Villalobos:
The "Superstar Activator"
Michelle Villalobos, MBA, CSP, is an expert in the art, science, and business of transformational gathering. Over the past 17 years, she has personally led over 150 multi-day retreats, conferences, and intensives for thousands of leaders – and consulted on hundreds more.
As a Certified Speaking Professional®, Michelle blends embodied leadership, skilled facilitation, and business acumen to activate alignment, action, and lasting impact.
Michelle has also coached hundreds of event leaders to maximize event profit and impact by crafting offers, scripting invitations, and mapping strategy for enrollment into back-end continuity and community programs.
