With a background in aeronautics, avionics and optoelectronics, Michelle Child has been choosing to challenge assumptions, stereotypes and boundaries her whole career.
After a 20-year career in the Royal Air Force as an Engineer Officer, and a 4-year stint in the Defence Electronics Industry, Michelle took on the challenge of moving to a completely different industry, Education. Despite once having been told in basic training that she was “too small to command respect or authority”, she led a 200 strong team to the successful delivery of hundreds of thousands of qualifications for students around the world during the COVID 19 Pandemic.
Michelle chose to leave the world of high stakes assessment behind and is now the Operations Director in a medical devices company. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, crafting and writing articles on her experiences in leadership and management, as well as long walks with her husband and 3 dogs Rocky, Lily and Daisy
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