Michelle Chenault, Mba Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As the Branding and Compliance Chair for YE Foundation, I ensure our organization adheres to regulatory standards and ethical practices while maintaining a solid and cohesive brand identity. My responsibilities include monitoring compliance with legal requirements, developing and implementing policies, and overseeing risk management, internal audits, and reporting procedures to uphold the foundation's integrity and accountability. Additionally, I work with our Strategic Marketing Chair and Communications & Community Chair, ensuring brand consistency across all channels to align with our mission of transforming global waste into clean energy in underserved countries, starting in Haiti. I support our environmental initiatives and contribute to the foundation's success and sustainability through these efforts.

I am an independent business consultant specializing in the professional services sector with over 16 years of experience. I provide consulting and coaching services to entrepreneurs and small business owners in government contracting, obtaining capital, and operations management. I help them identify business challenges and opportunities, evaluate business operations, and translate them into processes and technical solutions that are cost-effective, flexible, and sustainable to increase efficiency, reduce operational risks, and improve profitability.I have experience working with clients in numerous industries, including the non-profit sector. As a technical writer, I work closely with clients to prepare proposal responses to government RFPs, business plans, and grants.I collaborate with non-profit organizations and small businesses whose missions focus on supporting entrepreneurs.

The Center for Micro-Entrepreneurial Training (CMET) is a nonprofit organization focused on empowering women, and black and brown entrepreneurs to start and grow their own businesses. They provide high-quality entrepreneurial training that prepares women, black and brown entrepreneurs with the skills needed to succeed in business. The Center for Micro-Entrepreneurial Training, Inc. has developed an intensive five-day curriculum to develop or improve these competencies. Their focus is on preparing, planning, developing, executing, and assessing our client's businesses to achieve sustainability.I teach business planning and implementation with an emphasis on business plan development.

Houston, Texas, Us

The Women's Business Center (WBC) is housed as part of the Women’s Business Enterprise Alliance (WBEA) program service delivery for women-owned businesses. Recognizing that many women-owned businesses were in the start-up phase, WBEA wrote a grant to secure funding to serve entrepreneurs and small business start-ups with training, mentoring and consulting. The WBC provides a gateway to certification for small businesses. This affords small businesses an opportunity to gain full knowledge on the benefits of certifications, contracting, engagement in WBEA and how to develop relationships with supplier diversity representatives.The WBC provides one-on-one support and guidance through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) certification process - WBENC-Certified Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs). WBC partners with WBENC's Corporate Members to facilitate real-time business opportunities and serves as a Resource to offer training that helps the Corporate Member and the WBENC-Certified WBE grow their capacity.WBENC is also an approved Third-Party Certifier for the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contracting Program.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

MassChallenge Mentor community is a unique opportunity to advise high-impact, early stage companies. The MassChallenge expert community is a global network of nearly 3,000 successful entrepreneurs, seasoned industry leaders, and other professionals seeking to help startups succeed. Judges help select which promising startups enter the accelerator by participating in virtual or in-person judging rounds and mentors work with startups through individualized advising, office hours (in-person or virtual), and tailored events throughout the accelerator. Experts support startups in different roles and in different capacities throughout the accelerator.

Laguna Beach, California, Us

Provide technical writing and project management for non-profit organizations. Services Include:Grant ProposalsProcedural ManualsInformative Questionnaires

Burke, Va, Us

As a business advisor, I mentor, coach, and advise clients on business start-up and growth with the overall goal of leading to economic impact and long-term success of the client.▪ Apply operational strategy, and metrics to track and evaluate client caseload and services ▪ Review business plans and financials▪ Coach clients on creating cash flow statements▪ Deliver one-on-one counseling▪ Guide clients on finding key business and industry information ▪ Assist in developing short and longterm goals ▪ Track and report Economic Impacts (EI)

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for the direction and coordination of all non-market-oriented activities of a single district operation including the overall management of the functional support activities operating within the district, such as, Accounting & Finance, Information Services, Human Resources, Facilities Management, and Administrative Sales Support.• Participate in the development of short and long-term goals and objectives for the districts operations and annual budgets.• Review and analyze sales activities, revenue and expenses, operational practices, and forecast data to determine progress toward stated goals and objectives. • Conduct studies of work problems, procedures, and processes ensuring a high level of operational effectiveness.

Martinez, Ca, Us

Facilitate Academy of College Excellence Five-Day Experiential Learning Institute (FELI) practicum utilizing the 5-Dynamics Model. Co-teach FLOW cohort in Warehouse Operations course designed to expose students to the various warehouse types, purpose, required design components, various processes and job functions conducted in warehouse operations. This includes industry terminology, design, infrastructure supporting operations, receiving, shipping, inventory, safety and hazardous material handling.

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• Managed warehouse logistics for wine transfers, storage and account delivery• Forecasted inventory levels based on prior year sales and projected seasonal demand• Generated weekly sales forecasting and inventory depletion reports to monitor demand leading to profit maximization• Supported 20 sales representatives through the roll-out of new cloud-based sales platform demonstrating CRM features that produced an increase in sales order efficiency• Increased monthly sales revenue by 23% year over year in first two months of employment by creating time and cost-efficient processes

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Responsible for the implementation of activities associated with Compliance, Direct to Consumer sales, and California sales team across all business units of Maritime Wine Trading Collective. In addition, I engaged in various projects across other areas of business development, including, but not limited to, development of new process, policies, procedure, and due diligence reviews.• Increased sales and distribution by streamlining the ordering process utilizing Assists Business Unit field sales personnel in the achievement of their sales goals and objectives• Developed and monitored performance metrics for compliance and submitted all Direct to Consumer Excise Sales Tax Reports.

• Spearheaded wine program, promoted weekly events, and maintained inventory purchases and depletions • Consulted management on hiring and termination practices• Assisted in developing a strong customer base and building relationships to maximize repeat visits; as well as fostered a collaborative work environment, ensuring a positive internal and external customer experienceActed as on premise wine specialist. Knowledgeable in wine production and description; able to communicate wine pairing with a variety of food offerings. Provide sales leadership and product knowledge inspiration to team. Assist in developing a strong customer base and building relationships to maximize repeat visits; as well as foster a collaborative work environment, ensuring a positive internal and external customer experience.

• Provided management direction and operational support to project assigned personnel involved in all phases of service maintenance.• Managed overall service personnel to ensure compliance and alignment with Brandom’s corporate requirements and objectives; policies and procedures.• Optimized profitability of assigned projects by focusing on non-reimbursable costs and other costs resulting from non-conformance to requirements.• Communicated Brandom’s business objectives and ensured comprehension of key personnel of the Critical Success Factors (KPI’s) that will support these goals.• Generated weekly performance metrics, warranty, and Client project status reports.• Participated in any Root Cause Analysis and Incident investigations as relates to both safety and quality of work.• Established control processes, and generate reports for internal management review, that accurately track resources and progress against established schedules on a real time basis.

Provided companies with operations and project management, business development, and contract compliance. Key Accomplishments:● Built trusted client relationships through proactive account management and effective project delivery.● Provided leadership throughout the lifecycles of a project, guiding the understanding the project team has through design and development to ensure project requirements are met● Established knowledge of client business challenges and priorities to translate into opportunities.Select Projects: Neighborhood Stabilization Program – Project Managed federally funded program through HUD for stabilizing communities. • Project Lead for multiple strategic single-family housing projects totaling $4M aimed to stabilize neighborhoods affected by the housing crises; successfully released 23 redeveloped properties back to the market• Designed and implemented programs, policies, and practices to ensure that all business units were in compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements• Coordinated vendor, stakeholder, and government communications and delivered project update presentationsIntricate Building and Restoration, Inc. - Transitioned sole-proprietorship to corporation allowing client to increase competitiveness and contract procurement. • Managed corporate and financial files; audited files for compliance • Provided organization, policy development and document management• Designed a new hire orientation program that boosted productivity and retention• Prepared monthly spreadsheets for project billing and budget analysis

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science And Government

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies