About

In Good Company

The room you have been seeking.

The Shape of It

Where Leadership Lives

Leadership across cultures is more than a title. It is shaped by how you live.

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In decisions made without a roadmap or precedent.

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In responsibilities carried across different systems and expectations.

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In ongoing, often invisible, efforts bridging worlds.

Life across cultures is not a hurdle to overcome.

Shaped by lived experience, it is the foundation for how you lead.

The Foundation

Three Practices

Leadership across cultures takes many forms at different chapters.

Three threads weave together this practice and the community we gather.

Belonging

Be part of something bigger

A space where your journey is understood and your cross-cultural complexity forms our shared ground.

Well-Being

Move at your own rhythm

Not a luxury, but the essential practice of setting your own pace amid constant adaptation.

Voice

Claim your authentic center

Here, your difference is the strength and the foundation. A practice of presence and voice to lead as you are.

Elyse Michaels-Berger

The Founder

Elyse Michaels-Berger

Grounded in experience leading across cultures

Franco-American, Elyse has built her life, career, and family across cultures. She is a certified global executive coach working at the intersection of leadership, well-being, and identity.

Her practice brings together intercultural expertise and lived reality, combining rigor with a deep professional and personal understanding of what it means to navigate a life between cultures.

Credentials

Princeton · Columbia · ESSEC · HEC Paris

Director, HEC Paris Youth Leadership Initiative

HEC Paris Global Executive Coaching Certification (ICF ACC, CPCC, NLP Practitioner)

HEC Paris Equine-Facilitated Coach

President, Princeton Alumni Association of France

ORIGINS

A Message from the Founder

— Elyse Michaels-Berger

It began with a small gathering after a significant life shift.

We came from different countries and different chapters of life, yet immediately found a shared rhythm and resonance.

Laughter. Listening. Insight. The kind that arrives easily among those who already know the terrain. And the rare relief of not having to translate or explain.

Over the years, in coaching and in conversation, I have walked alongside extraordinary women building lives across cultures no single playbook can hold: navigating transitions, building careers and ventures, holding multiple worlds and the people who matter.

Each woman already remarkable.

I came to understand this: whether in coaching, life, or leadership, when women living across cultures gather and support one another, something shifts.

I naturally began bringing women together, first around dinner tables, and later through leadership panels, conversations, and curated circles.

Each gathering felt like its own constellation, each woman shining her light and way of seeing. We left brighter, with the path lighter, both in weight and in illumination.

This space is that original circle, expanded.

A place where backgrounds and accents need neither translation nor explanation. Where resonance is immediate, and women naturally lift one another higher through every season and chapter.

Whichever path brings you here, expect to be lifted higher.

Welcome.

Elyse Michaels-Berger

Founder · Women Leading Across Cultures

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