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Michelle Markwart Deveaux
Saturday, April 3
9:15–10:15 a.m.
Every music teacher has been told, in a hundred ways, their worth is measured by their students’ competition wins, their studio size, and whether the right people approve of them. Michelle Markwart Deveaux has spent more than two decades dismantling that lie, grounded in research that explains why it happens and what to do instead.
A writer, speaker, musician, and executive coach, Markwart Deveaux is the founder of Key of CEO Consulting and The SpeakEasy Cooperative, home to a global community of independent music educators across four continents. Through Key of CEO Consulting, she works with nonprofit executives, boards of directors, and organizational teams navigating cultural change, strategic plan activation, and governance development. Her facilitation work centers on building the conditions for honest, mission-aligned leadership: the kind that holds itself accountable not to prestige or legacy, but to the people it serves. Through The SpeakEasy Cooperative, she works with independent music educators who are done outsourcing their success metrics to external validators: competition wins, studio size, and institutional approval.
Markwart Deveaux applies Self-Determination Theory, scarcity mindset research, and integrative coaching to the real, daily lives of music educators. She has presented and facilitated at institutions such as New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, and the University of Utah, as well as at NATS and ANATS at the national level. She has been featured on The Full Voice, What Works, Lonely at the Top, and Rebel Therapist, and hosts her own podcast, How to Run Your Business Without Hating Your Boss. Her coaching expertise spans multiple modalities, including Gallup CliftonStrengths, the Ikigai framework, and Co-Active Coaching. She holds a BA in music from Patten University and an MA in worship, theology, and the arts from Fuller Theological Seminary, with formal training at University of Northern Colorado in musical theatre and vocal performance. She is an ICF member.
She is not a pianist. She plays piano. And she knows exactly why that distinction matters to this audience.
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