Michelle Best is a Managing Director at Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She possess expertise in strategy, strategic partnerships, business strategy, start ups, leadership and 27 more skills. She is proficient in English, Spanish. Colleagues describe her as "In the short time we worked together, Michelle's passion, experience, and determination helped three large internal organizations with different priorities cooperate to expand service and support to tens of thousands of nonprofits globally -- a big win! Michelle is deeply committed to the people, partners and causes she believes in, and is driven to make a difference at work and in the world." and "Michelle is an exceptional operator who is skilled in accomplishing significant impact in challenging environments. She is passionate about improving lives of people and is willing to pursue various paths to achieve those outcomes. She understands macro and micro situations extremely well and while she will always champion for the biggest outcome she is smart in how she will take what is available to achieve real impact. I have found her to be a fantastic partner, great collaborator and an inspiration in the work that we have done together. "