Michelle Iravuhah is an ICF ACC credentialed executive coach and the founder of Coaching By Michelle, a luxury executive coaching practice based in Kenya. She works with C-suite executives, business founders, and senior leaders who carry the weight of high-stakes leadership, often in isolation.

Before coaching, Michelle founded and ran a business in the education sector, an industry she had no prior experience in. She built it from the ground up, learning every dimension of the operation while running it simultaneously. That experience of leading alone, carrying the full cognitive and emotional weight of a business with no structural support, became the foundation of her coaching practice. She came to coaching first as a client, then trained and credentialed to bring that same space to other leaders.

Her work centres on leadership isolation as a structural reality of senior roles, not a personal weakness. Her whitepaper, “The Isolation Paradox: Why Success Creates Distance in Leadership,” synthesizes 39 academic sources on executive loneliness, including research showing 50% prevalence among CEOs and measurable impacts on decision-making, organizational performance, and leader wellbeing. She positions coaching as infrastructure for how successful leaders operate, not as intervention for when things go wrong.

Michelle holds an MBA in Strategic Management and a degree in Information Technology. She is also the founder of The Brunch Network, a community for ambitious entrepreneurs and founders in Kenya.