Michelle Whyte

Michelle Whyte is the Executive Officer of Leadership Ballarat & Western Region with a strong interest in developing of emerging community leaders. After spending over a decade working and volunteering for not-for-profits Michelle has a lead transformative initiatives across employment services, adult education and community sectors. Skilled in stakeholder and community engagement, adult education program design and innovation, Michelle enjoys working with individuals to develop their very best version of themselves.

Michelle continues to give back to the sector that she learnt so much from serving as the Chair of the Ballarat and Wendouree Neighbourhood Centres in Ballarat. In her tenure as the Executive Manager at Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre she oversaw the rapid growth of the organisation. The success of the organisation was acknowledged with several local and industry awards including the Learn Local Legend Award, Adult Community & Further Education AMES Diversity Innovation Award and finalists two years running in the Federation Business School Commerce Ballarat Business Awards.

Michelle holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting and Human Resources from Deakin Universit