MICHELE C. MEYER-SHIPP, ESQ.

Michele C. Meyer-Shipp is a transformational C-suite executive, board leader, and nationally recognized thought leader with more than 20 years of experience spanning professional sports, global nonprofits, professional services, and Fortune 500s. Across every chapter of her career, she has advanced culture, access, and opportunity: first as an employment attorney and later as a senior executive leading enterprise wide talent, culture, and inclusion strategy.

Michele serves as Interim Executive Director and Board Chair of the Fritz Pollard Alliance Foundation (FPA) providing strategic leadership and governance oversight to advance inclusive leadership across professional football. She works closely with leaders across the football ecosystem to strengthen systems, expand access, and elevate pathways to decision making roles throughout the sport. She previously held senior executive roles at Major League Baseball, KPMG, Prudential Financial, and Merrill Lynch, where she advised CEOs and boards, embedded equitable practices into talent systems, and led large-scale organizational transformation.

Most recently, as Chief Executive Officer of Dress for Success Worldwide, she led a comprehensive global reinvention: modernizing strategy, governance, and operations; strengthening affiliate performance across an international network spanning 140 chapters in more than 20 countries; and helping women returning to the workforce achieve economic stability via jobs at a livable wage.

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 and Nominating Committees, contributing to executive succession, compensation, and organizational effectiveness at the highest levels of women’s professional sports.

A sought-after voice on leadership, culture, and talent strategy, Michele has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, ESPN, Business Insider, and the Sports Business Journal. In addition to her many accolades and awards, in 2025, Michele was named a Forbes “50 Over 50” Impact Honoree.

Her connection to football is both professional and personal. In addition to having served for five years on the FPA board, Michele has coached youth flag football, and mentors collegiate players at Tufts University and Yale University. She comes from a football family and has spent most of her adult life around the game: her brother-in-law played and coached in the NFL, and two of her three sons competed at the collegiate level, including one most recently playing Division I football at Yale.

Michele holds a Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University, and she resides in New Jersey with her husband, United States District Court Judge, Michael A. Shipp.