Michelle Koven

Executive HP Business Partner MultiCare Health System

In 2018 Michelle began her role as the Executive Human Potential Business Partner for MultiCare Health System supporting the Behavioral Health, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Network and Pulse Heart Institute.  It is Michelle’s responsibility to proactively partner with members of the executive teams within each of those networks to provide people thought leadership and drive organizational capability by supporting critical Human Resources processes for strategic workforce planning, talent leadership, leadership development, succession planning and change management. Additionally, she is responsible for coordinating HR services through various merger, partnership and acquisition activity within those services.  

 Michelle first joined MultiCare as an Employee Engagement Consultant in October of 2008 where her primary focus was engagement and retention and co-facilitated workshops with Leadership Development. Michelle briefly left MultiCare to work for Nordstrom corporate headquarters as an Instructional Designer and as a Human Resources Training Manager for Pioneer Human Services. Michelle is one of our "boomerang" employees and returned to MultiCare in May of 2013 as a formal member of the Leadership Development team. 

Prior to working for MultiCare, Michelle worked with Deloitte Consulting and Emergency Medical Services Corporation in areas of engagement, retention, change management, process improvement, onboarding, organizational development and leadership coaching. Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Counseling and Educational Psychology, both from the University of Nevada, Reno. Michelle is certified in: Strategic HR Business Partner, Change Management, General Human Resources and Business Coaching and Mentoring.