Brand Leaders

Are you a subject matter expert, leader or entrepreneur ready to expand your influence but unsure how to position yourself for the next level.

Hi, I’m Michelle, a speaker, author, advisor and founder of Brand Leaders, a professional branding and LinkedIn visibility training platform. 

I help experts, leaders and teams position their personal brands, grow visibility on LinkedIn, and become in-demand authorities in their industries. 

Your personal brand should be your business advantage, but it needs a foundational strategy and plan first. That's why I created my Own Your L.A.N.E. framework to make so you're clear, credible and competitively advantaged in your field:

OWN YOUR LANE. OWN YOUR FUTURE. 

After years of watching brilliant professionals stay overlooked, I created the Own Your L.A.N.E.™ System, a proven roadmap for business development. 

L – Launch Your Vision (Purpose)
A – Assert Your Difference (Positioning)
N – Navigate Your Brand (Presence)
E – Elevate Your Authority (Proof)

Because when you’re clear on who you are and how you show up…

The right people find you
The right opportunities follow
And you become known for what sets you apart

I speak, teach & advise experts, leaders, teams and audiences to:

✔ Position and differentiate your expertise into a recognizable brand
✔ Grow a consistent presence and build influential relationships on LinkedIn®
✔ Elevate your authority through speaking, media and PR opportunities

👉 CASE STUDIES: MichelleBGriffin.com/results

TOPICS 
> Own Your Lane™ The Recognition Roadmap
> LinkedIn® Personal Branding for Experts, Leaders & Teams
> Brand is The New Demand 

Learn more about me in the About section.

LET'S CHAT
Book a call to learn more: 👉 MichelleBGriffin.com/chat

 I look forward to meeting you!

Own Your Lane™ - Personal PR/Personal Brand Speaker, Workshop Facilitator + Masterclass Presenter 

Brand Leaders® - Powered by Own Your Lane® helps subject matter experts and expertise business owners clarify their brand positioning, simplify their message and amplify their visibility to win clients and land PR opportunities.

Brand for Business Speaking, Advising and Workshops

Innovation Women

Innovation Women is a visibility bureau connecting event managers to women speakers. Our goal is gender-balanced panels and equal visibility opportunities for women. Join us on a FREE Speaker Friends Friday Zoom session: https://innovationwomen.com/events/speaker-friends/

My Innovation Women Profile: https://speaker.innovationwomen.com/users/15203
To book me as a speaker: https://michellebgriffin.com/speaking or email michelle@michellebgriffin.com

Member and National Speaker

Michelle B Griffin Speaker & Author

Own Your Lane®  is the go-to podcast for experts and leaders who are ready (but may struggle) to position their brilliance, clarify their message, and grow their visibility for next-level opportunities.

Host, Own Your Lane® Podcast

As a LinkedIn™ personal branding & PR expert, I speak, teach, educate, and host in-depth workshops for organizations, groups, and teams. My authority-personal branding-focused presentations focus on positioning profiles, presence, and publicity to align with brand and business goals. 

Need a Speaker, Workshop Facilitator, Expert Quote, or Podcast Guest? Let's chat about how I can support you and your event/ team/group. I'd love to learn more about your goals and how I can partner with you. Please get in touch here or via LinkedIn DM.

LinkedIn® Personal Branding, Professional Visibility Speaker, Educator & Workshops

Personal Branding Books to Help You Get Visible and Grow Your Industry Presence—My personal branding books teach you to get visible, own your value, and confidently grow your professional presence for next-level industry opportunities.

The LinkedIn Branding Book helps you build your personal and business brand on LinkedIn for exponential growth. PLUS, a 50-page action-taking (online fillable) companion Brand Squared Workbook™ is included with the book.
https://michellebgriffin.com/books

Own Your Lane® books series are your personal branding and visibility acceleratosr, designed to help you take charge of your presence and become the go-to authority in your field.

Too many talented professionals—especially women—remain unseen, not because they lack skill but because they struggle to communicate their value and gain the visibility they deserve.

Through the actionable, four-step L.A.N.E.™ system, these books will teach you how to confidently step forward, articulate your unique strengths, and get recognized for your expertise. Learn more at  OwnYourLane.io.

Author - Personal Branding, PR, LinkedIn® Presence, Professional Visibility

With a mantra of "Put Yourself Out There to Own Your Lane and Own Your Future," I believe professional visibility is a powerful form of economic leverage and business growth, leading to industry opportunities, increased impact, and higher income for professionals and organizations.

As a PR, personal branding, and LinkedIn visibility speaker and educator, I empower and equip professionals, and especially women in business, to confidently set themselves apart, step into the spotlight, and seize next-level opportunities in a crowded field through my Own Your Lane® learning platform and book series,

Book me to Speak, Facilitate a Workshop, Guest On Your Podcast, Contribute To Your Publication, and/or Moderate a Panel.

Speaker Inquiries and Bookings

Let's chat about how I can support you and your event/ team/group. I'd love to learn more about your goals and how I can partner with you. Please contact me via my inquiry form or book a chat at MichelleBGriffin.com or via LinkedIn DM.

Thought Leadership Branding Speaker, LinkedIn Visibility Strategist and Workshop Facilitator

As a PR and personal branding speaker, author, and LinkedIn visibility expert, I love empowering audiences to get visible for their next level. 

I guest weekly on podcasts, LinkedIn Audio, Livestream, and YouTube shows and speak/host group training and workshops on personal branding and LinkedIn to build your professional presence and opportunities. 

Watch/listen and see more here: https://michellebgriffin.com/media

Let's Connect
Need a Speaker, Expert Quote, or Podcast Guest?

Let's chat about how I can support you and your event/ team/group. I'd love to learn more about your goals and how I can partner with you. Please contact me via my inquiry form or book a chat at MichelleBGriffin.com or via LinkedIn DM.

Podcast Guest, Personal Branding, PR, LinkedIn® Presence and Professional Visibility

Join 1,700+ global professionals who are getting visible to build and boost their personal brands. The P.Y.O.T. Community - Put Yourself Out There Community to Build & Boost Your Personal Brand will help you become clear, confident and consistent on LinkedIn. Join us as we ramp up our personal brands, expand our connections, and build meaningful communities on LinkedIn. You'll find peer support, accountability, training, and tips on LinkedIn and personal branding. 

NOTE: This is NOT an engagement pod
Join us; it’s free: 👉 https://michellebgriffin.com/pyotcommunity

Founder, P.Y.O.T. - Put Yourself Out There Community to Build & Boost Your Personal Brand

StandoutWomen.org is a movement to grow visibility, personal brands, and thought leadership for women in business and women in leadership. Our mission is to empower impact-driven women to position themselves as industry leaders and create meaningful opportunities.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, leader, or professional, we provide tools, training, and events to support your journey of standing out and stepping up—all through the lens of the Own Your Lane®: Personal Branding framework. Learn more at StandoutWomen.org.

StandoutWomen.org - The Personal Branding Movement For More Standout Women in Business & Leadership

THE LINKEDIN™️ BRANDING COMMUNITY by #MichelleSquared

The LinkedIn Branding Book: The Power of Two: How to Double Your Personal and Business Brand for Exponential Growth by #MichelleSquared, Michelle B Griffin and Michelle J Raymond, is now available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover editions. PLUS, a 50-page action-taking companion Brand Squared Workbook™ is included with the book.

Co-Author, The LinkedIn Branding Book

The top-ranked podcast, The LinkedIn Branding Show, hosted by #MichelleSquared, Michelle B Griffin and Michelle J Raymond, empowers professionals, entrepreneurs, experts, and small business owners to stand out and rise up as they build personal and business brands on LinkedIn. New episodes drop every Thursday on your favorite podcast platform.

Co-Host, The LinkedIn Branding Show Podcast

The Power of Two to Double Your LinkedIn Growth with our new book, top-ranked podcast and supportive community. Join Michelle B Griffin and Michelle J Raymond, aka #MichelleSquared, for fun events, real conversations, and actionable takeaways with a community of impact-driven professionals ready to rise up and stand out on LinkedIn as a powerful force of good. Join us and learn more at MichelleSquared.com

Co-Founder, The LinkedIn Branding Community

Windstorm Insurance Network, Inc.® - Property/Windstorm Insurance Claims Industry Member Association

The Windstorm Insurance Network (WIND) is a B2B national association for the property insurance claims and legal industry. Through professional development, continuing education, and annual conferences, the group is the leading provider of industry insights for the property/windstorm insurance claims industry, property/windstorm insurance service providers, and industry consultants. 

As the association's executive director, I oversaw the day-to-day management and marketing of the Windstorm Insurance Network, Inc. and the annual Windstorm Insurance Conference, a 2,000-person international conference. 

My duties included strategic business development, marketing communication planning, event marketing, team management and member experience management. Specific personal skills include digital marketing, inbound/content marketing, email marketing, social media marketing/outreach, branding strategy, copywriting, website design, WordPress management, and conference/event planning and marketing.

Executive Director

As the lead marketer, I managed a team to plan, promote and host the annual (WIND) Windstorm Insurance Conference, which attracted nearly 2,000 attendees each year from across the U.S. and internationally. 

Under my leadership, membership grew at a steady rate of 1,000 members and conference attendance and revenue targets exceeded goals. 

As the lead event marketer, I also managed, promoted regional and one-day events and continuing education seminars and presentations across the U.S.

Event Marketing Director

Positioning Women Experts Into Visible Authorities┃Personal Brand, PR & Thought Leadership Strategist & Coach to Own Your Lane With More Visibility, Impact & Income┃Author┃Speaker┃80s Music Fan┃Own Your Lane™ Book 10/15

Hi, I’m Michelle. I transform hidden experts into visible authorities and so glad you’re here. 

If you've ever struggled to explain what you do, felt overlooked despite your expertise, or missed opportunities you knew you were perfect for, you're not alone—and you're in the right place.

After seeing brilliant experts stay invisible because they believed their work would speak for itself, I created the Own Your Lane™ Recognition Roadmap to help you become the go-to authority in your field.

THE OWN YOUR LANE™ SYSTEM

L – Launch Your Vision (Purpose)
A – Assert Your Difference (Position)
N – Navigate Your Brand (Package)
E – Elevate Your Authority (Promote)

OWN YOUR LANE. OWN YOUR FUTURE.
My mission is to position you for success. I speak, train, and advise experts and leaders—especially women in business—who are ready to be seen, heard, and sought-after. Together, we chart your one-page personal branding roadmap to give you the clarity, confidence, communication and competitive edge for business growth. 

Why this matters: You stop comparing yourself to everyone else. You gain the positioning, words and strategy to know who you are, what makes you different and a repeatable way to talk about what you do — in person, online, in meetings — anywhere decisions are made.

My clients have gone from “one of many” to “the one” -- booked on TEDx & industry stages, featured in top media, published best-selling books & effortlessly growing thought leadership on their terms. 

Now it’s your turn…

WORK WITH ME
> Own Your Lane™ Speaking & Workshops 
No hype, just help. Experiential sessions with clarity, tools & action

> Own Your Lane Roadmaps & Advising 
Let's chart your one-page plan for next-level goals and opportunities

👉MichelleBGriffin.com/RESULTS

ABOUT ME
With 20+ years in branding, PR & executive leadership, I’ve helped Fortune 500s, startups and global thought leaders sharpen their message, elevate visibility & grow their businesses.

• TEDxFSU Speaker, April 2025
• Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc. & Authority Featured 
• 2x Author, Position Yourself & The LinkedIn® Branding Book 
• 2x Podcast Host, Own Your Lane™ & The LinkedIn™ Branding Show
NEW: Own Your Lane™ Book publishing soon

“Live in the moment” is my mantra; find me outdoors with an ’80s playlist, meeting new people and exploring new places.

🎧 FREE RESOURCES
Grab my LinkedIn Visible Training + Go Your Own Way Playlist 
👉MichelleBGriffin.com/QUICKLINKS

READY TO OWN YOUR LANE?
👉Visit MichelleBGriffin.com - let's chat on how I can support you best.

MICHELLE B GRIFFIN

A DOUBLE celebration today… and this one hits even sweeter. 🥳

1) First up: a huge birthday shout-out to my Aussie co-author and co-host of The LinkedIn Branding Book and podcast Michelle J Raymond, the LinkedIn company pages 👑 for B2B growth AND Tim Tams #1 brand ambassador on LinkedIn.

2) Second, happy 3rd birthday to our book, THE LINKEDIN™️ BRANDING BOOK by #MichelleSquared#MichelleSquared! The book and 50-page companion workbook are written to help you build your personal and business brand so you easily win on LinkedIn. I’m so proud of the transformation and impact it’s had on readers worldwide, and I love teaching and speaking with its BrandSquared system and message.


The Gifts 🎁 

I still shake my head in disbelief, yet gratitude that a comment I made on a post in December 2020 connected me to someone in Sydney, Australia. 

That led to client collaborations, hosting a weekly branding podcast (now 181+ weekly episodes) and writing a book together, a world apart. That's the power of this platform, you never know the person you comment or connect with can change your life.

🎤OVER TO YOU

Cheers to celebrating the power of this platform to globally connect us all. The power of friendships, fun and opportunities from LinkedIn is unexpected and unmatched. 

👉 Who’s one person you met here by pure chance that changed your work, world, or perspective? Tag them below.

MICHELLE B. GRIFFIN

AI is NOW ready to be led by women...learning it, leading it, and shaping what’s next.

On Friday, as a founding Imperial Council member, speaker and now certified facilitator, I had the honor of speaking at the inaugural AI Foundations for Women global event where brilliant minds came together to explore, question, and reimagine what leadership and business look like in the age of AI.

Three hours flew by, filled with group learning, hands-on exercises, and tool-building with ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Google Teachable Machine, plus powerful conversations around creativity, confidence, and belonging. I had a blast co-facilitating with Natalia Bolton and our amazing cohort.

This event also marked the global launch of Empressa AI, the first women-only skilling platform built to help women develop skill and influence at the same time.

Huge appreciation to Miri Rodriguez, Stacey Danheiser, Claudia Cortez, and the entire Empressa team for 18+ months of vision, dedication, and courage in launching what’s now a global movement.

This is only the beginning.

 Visit Empressa.AI for more and save the date, the next cohort opens in January, another chance to join this worldwide circle of women shaping the future with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

#WomenInLeadership #WomenInBusiness #ShesVisible #AIneedsWomen #EmpressaAI #VisibleLeadership

Denise Murtha Bachmann

Sellovatorz Inc

Elevating Sales to Cultivate Exceptional Sales Results in the World of AI by helping to adopt and adapt to AI technologies for efficiency gains and then shifting the focus on the Human aspect within the sales process.  The human connection, creating the human experience that the buyers of today demand.

Founder

Growth Network Partnership

As a Strategic Partner with GNP, we work closely with clients to understand their needs and collaborate with experts to deliver tailored solutions. By leveraging a diverse skill set and industry knowledge, we successfully manage strategic partnerships and drive client satisfaction through innovative solutions and effective communication.  I am proud to be a founding member.

Strategic Partner

Top Voices Unite

As an Advisory Board Member for LinkedIn Top Voices we foster a global community dedicated to serving professionals through cutting-edge knowledge and meaningful connections. We empower leaders to elevate their businesses through service-driven insights and collaboration, driving success and growth worldwide.

Advisory Board Member

DCS Sales LLC

With our focus on Funded Start-ups, DCS Represents Denise (Murtha Bachmann), Cory (Warfield), Sonny (aka Sondeep Purewal) and is a 360 degree approach to sales for those that need to implement a Sales Strategy, Sales Team, or Improve Processes and People already in place to Hit Sales Targets.  For those that need guidance with LI branding, prospecting, sales process, elevating sales skills, fractional leadership and more, DCS is your consulting, coaching and leadership shop.

Co-Founder

The Profit Trio

A 3 pronged approach to sales, we (Chella Diaz, Chad Johnson and myself) guide Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners to Price your Value, Prospect and Close Business all while here on LI.

SWAI Media

SWAI Media represents the various media streams for Sellovatorz™, Success with AI, Blue TV and various others.  Whether newsletters, live streams, audio events, podcasts or guesting appearances, they are all managed through SWAI and represent my Sales, AI and Humanity platform.

Success with AI

I Help Individuals and Enterprises to Convert More Prospects into Qualified Leads by Educating How AI is used to Compliment Humans not Replace them.  How?  By Educating on how to Implement Automation Technologies that allow Individuals and Enterprises to off load their daily mundane tasks and focus on Generating Revenue Activities such as New Products and Service Offerings utilizing Social Selling and Branding.

Caff-AI Chats Livestream Host
Speaker
Consultant
Coach

Founder and CEO

LOS Global

LOS Global is a leadership coaching program leveraging the Leadership Optimized System.  I am sharing my experience with AI and Sales to Leaders Globally.

Coach

Sales Revival Community

With my co-host, we planned and executed on the 2023 3rd Annual Sales Revival Conference entitled The Aftermath: Man vs Machine.  With over 25 panelists, over 3 days, we brought together industry leaders in Branding, Marketing, Sales and many more together to facilitate conversations for an audience of marketers, sales professionals, entrepreneurs, leaders and more.

RevGenius

Member

Sales is like a box of chocolates. Wrong! We should know exactly what we are getting. Together we will make sure that you know where your Sales are coming from in the remainder of this fiscal year.

Hi...I am Denise Murtha Bachmann and I am passionate about humanizing sales.  I killed it in tech sales and I help others do the same.  What differentiates me from all the other sales coaches here on LinkedIn?  With over 30 years of experience and the latter half in AI/ML, I know how to leverage new technologies for efficiency gains and then pivot to cultivate the human experience that buyers of today demand.

Closing over $75M in revenue in the last 14 years and making club 85% of the eligible years, working with companies such as AT&T, USAA, BCBS and so many more, I have navigated and managed some complex sales cycles.  Clients closed with me not just solely on my ability to build relationships, but also because established credibility with them.  I learned the products that I was selling and the business problems we were helping to solve so much so that I didn't need a software engineer for those 1st and 2nd level conversations.  This allowed for us to have the discussions that most buyers do not like to have with sales.

Knowing the solutions and the business problems is what fostered my passion and enthusiasm for AI.  The challenge that most companies face today is that they want and attempt to adopt new technologies, injecting them into the sales process but they don't know how to adapt their sales teams.  

Adapting to AI, many sales organizations....
*Have their sales teams just allow the solutions to run without teaching them how or when to insert the human connection, or
*Have their sales teams do the same work effort that the technology is focused on expecting double the results.

Buyers of today demand an experience.  By the time they come to you, as the seller, they have already done their homework and downselected you as one of their top 3-5 choices.  Yes you must confirm what they know about you, the company and product thus far, but then they want to know what partnering with you will be like.  They are looking for the experience.

Sales cannot give them an experience if they are focused more on the technology or on the activities that are of less value.  When you focus on the higher value activities, sales can cultivate and elevate the Human Connection within the sales process and revenue will SKYROCKET!!

Working with me and my Sellovatorz program, sales will learn how to accelerate exceptional sales results through...
*Group and Invidivual Coaching
*Masterminds and 
*Masterclasses.

DM me or visit my website to schedule time with me.
Let's kill sales together!!!

Today on Blue TV we will uncover the subtle signs that our LinkedIn presence is already performing—long before the numbers show it.

Most professionals mistake silence for stagnation. But behind every scroll, view, and quiet follower lies proof that our voice is being heard. We will reveal how to spot those signals, understand what they mean, and build on them to strengthen our visibility and influence.

Together, we’ll explore how to:
✅ Spot the quiet signals that show our LinkedIn content is working—from profile views to connection requests.
✅ Decode engagement patterns that reflect growing authority and trust, even when likes are few.
✅ Use consistency and authenticity to create an invisible momentum that builds lasting presence.

Wondered whether our content is truly making an impact—this episode proves it already is.

Hosted by me, Denise Murtha Bachmann a LinkedIn Top Voice + sales strategist.  See you there!

AI will help us hit quota but exceeding our numbers only happens when we focus on the human connection. Together, leveraging art and science, we will strategically KILL OUR SALES both now and in 2026. Let’s do this!!!

Most of us, as professionals think every post starts from zero. But cognitive science says otherwise—our audience carries attention residue from one moment of impact to the next. We will reveal how to use that hidden momentum to amplify visibility, trust, and conversion across our content.

Together, we’ll explore how to:
✅ Carry credibility from one post into the next with strategic sequencing.
✅ Use attention residue to make audiences more receptive after high-impact moments.
✅ Turn consistency into a compounding effect that strengthens our brand over time.

I'm sure we’ve all wondered why some creators seem to “stay top of mind” effortlessly—this episode will show us the science behind it.

We’re already building momentum with every post.
It’s time to learn how to use it.

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