Michele C. Meyer-Shipp, Esq.

Education and Experience

Michele C. Meyer-Shipp is a transformational executive and board leader with more than 20  years of experience across professional sports, nonprofit, corporate, and legal sectors.  Throughout her career, she has demonstrated a sustained and deeply rooted commitment to  advancing equity, access, and opportunity – first as an employment lawyer and later as a senior  executive responsible for enterprise-wide inclusion, talent, and culture strategy. 

Michele serves as Chair of the Board of the Fritz Pollard Alliance Foundation, where she  provides strategic leadership and fiduciary oversight in support of the organization’s mission to  advance equity, access, and opportunity in professional football. In this role, she leads board  governance and strategic planning and works closely with industry stakeholders across the  professional football ecosystem. 

Her commitment to equity and access is grounded in more than a decade of experience as an  employment lawyer, where she advised organizations on compliance, workplace fairness,  investigations, and systemic risk, and served as an advocate for lawful, ethical, and inclusive  employment practices. She later spent more than a decade as a Chief Diversity and Inclusion  Officer and senior people leader at global organizations including Major League Baseball,  KPMG, Prudential Financial, and Merrill Lynch. In these roles, she designed and implemented  large-scale inclusion strategies, embedded equity into talent systems, advised CEOs and boards,  and helped organizations navigate complex cultural, legal, and sociopolitical challenges. Most  recently, Michele served as Chief Executive Officer of Dress for Success Worldwide, where she  led a comprehensive organizational transformation that modernized strategy, governance, talent,  and operations across a large global network. Under her leadership, the organization  strengthened affiliate effectiveness, elevated culture and performance, expanded corporate  partnerships, and achieved significant revenue growth while advancing access to economic  opportunity for women worldwide. Her impact has positioned her as a recognized thought leader  on talent sourcing and development, leadership coaching, culture & inclusion, and organizational  effectiveness. 

Michele also serves on the Board of Directors of the Ladies Professional Golf Association  (LPGA), where she chairs the Human Resources Committee and serves on the Legal &  Governance Committee, contributing to executive succession, compensation, and organizational  effectiveness at the highest levels of women’s professional sports. 

Widely respected across the sports and business communities, Michele is frequently sought out  for her insights on leadership, talent strategy, culture and organizational effectiveness. Among  her numerous accolades, in 2025, she was recognized as a Forbes “50 Over 50” Impact Honoree. 

Michele holds a Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law and a Bachelor of  Science from Rutgers University, and resides in New Jersey.