Michele Benton, Ph.D., is a former Fortune 500 global business executive and founder of Lime, a consulting firm working with leaders and organizations on strategy, culture, and performance. A Cornell University graduate in Industrial and Labor Relations, she spent two decades leading commercial teams across five countries with revenue responsibility of up to $2B, earning scores of industry awards, including two Effies. She holds a Master's in Creativity Studies, and a doctorate in Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, where she researched how executive women create good lives inside saturation. Her writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, and she contributes regularly on LinkedIn about the business of being human. She is dual-based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Casablanca, Morocco.