Michele Kehrer is a business growth coach, resilient entrepreneur, and four-time cancer survivor who knows what it takes to overcome the toughest challenges. For more than 30 years, she has launched, managed, and successfully sold businesses across multiple industries—and helped countless leaders do the same.
Through Kehrer’s coaching company, Shift to Success, she specializes in guiding rapidly growing companies struggling to scale and businesses stuck below their potential. Her mission is simple: to empower leaders through mindset shifts and strategic growth plans that unlock profitability, foster healthy expansion, and create sustainable success. Drawing on her own experiences facing life-threatening illness and personal hardship, she helps clients transform setbacks into breakthroughs and pursue their vision with confidence.
Kehrer’s inspiring story has been featured on ABC7 Chicago, Oprah, and numerous podcasts and blogs. She began her career in healthcare, earning her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, then transitioned to entrepreneurship, building a thriving business even while undergoing cancer treatment.
