Michael Bell

Michael Bell is President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of InPartnership Consulting. He designs state-of-the-art training, leadership development programs, and organizational change initiatives for foundations and progressive non-profits. He is an international consultant and executive coach with special expertise in organizational assessment, teambuilding, and mentoring programs. He is an expert in helping organizations understand their cultures and their need for transformational learning.

A graduate of Cornell University, Michael serves as a senior faculty member for the Rockwood Leadership Institute. This group has convened to teach leaders of progressive non-profits how to powerfully align and inspire themselves and others toward common goals and high-quality results. He also serves as an advisor and design team member to Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity. This trans-national program is designed to promote racial equity by building an enduring transnational network of leaders across issues, approaches, and geographies to challenge anti-black racism and build institutions, policies, and narratives for a more equitable future.

Michael leads on the design and facilitation of the Building Power Fellowships in California and Ohio, in partnership with Helen Kim and Jose Acevedo of Rockwood Leadership Program. These fellowships catalyze a dramatic shift in leaders’ abilities to build power grounded in racial justice with a vision, narrative, and set of plans to engage community members in impacting the health, racial, and economic equity of their regions in a powerful, positive way.

Michael designs and facilitates The President’s Forum on Racial Equity in Philanthropy for Keecha Harris and Associates. Michael leads the Racial Equity Innovation Lab for foundations with comprehensive DEI/Racial Equity programs underway. The Innovation Lab allows each foundation to find support, expertise, and insights for addressing challenges and learning best practices for building impactful initiatives. He is a student/practitioner of Forward Stance, a series of physical practices based on the belief that our capacity for movement building rests not only on political alignment, strategy, or collaboration, but also a capacity to collectively embody a resilient stance and move as one. Forward Stance is a mind-body approach that gets us out of our heads and into our bodies, tying together physical movements with political movements.

Michael is certified to lead the Interpersonal Leadership Styles Assessment and the Intercultural Development Inventory®, both tools aimed at understanding and effectively working across difference.