In 2014, you could have been forgiven for envying Michelle Gamble. She grew up in beautiful Laguna Beach in California. Vibrant, tall, fit and attractive, Michelle graduated from Arizona State and started a fast-growth business development career in consulting and custom marketing research programs. Michelle married and they had a beautiful son named Cole. Everything was right on track both personally and professionally. Michelle was a quintessentially American success story bathed in the California sunshine. There were no signs that it was all about go very badly, very quickly.
Even as a child, Michelle was always a focused and disciplined high-performer. Her friends and family became used to new accomplishments. In her career, she excelled as a sales trainee, advanced into sales management, then to Junior Partner, and quickly to Director. She fast-tracked through industry giants Gartner, Siebel, PwC Consulting, and finally IDC. Michelle worked with Fortune 500 companies and top global brands. She enjoyed working with some of the smartest people in the world. They gathered market research and competitive business intelligence on tough product and marketing problems and then turned them into insights that executives used to make multi-billion-dollar decisions.
