About Michelle Carr

I am Michelle Carr, founder of Construction Alchemy.

Construction Alchemy exists to change the construction industry by enabling women to thrive, not survive, and integrating women into the foundations of a more effective, stable and sustainable industry.

I have spent over 25 years in construction across contracting, development, commercial management and leadership. I know exactly what it takes to deliver in high pressure environments, and I know what women carry in an industry that often asks them to adapt endlessly to systems that were never designed with them in mind.

This work is not HR-led. It is not theory. It is lived experience translated into industry change.

Today, I deliver this through speaking, workshops, organisational work and mentoring for women in construction leadership.

If you want to be part of building a construction industry that holds, I would love to talk.

My Formal Credentials:

• Chartered Member, Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB)
• Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb)
• Degree in Quantity Surveying
• HND in Business and Marketing
• HND in Law
• Level 7 NVQ in Senior Construction Management
• 25+ years working every role across construction contracts

Most equality work is written from the outside.

Construction Alchemy is led from the inside.

This platform is built on lived experience of delivery, commercial pressure, site culture and the reality of leading while managing biology, childcare and visibility.

That is why this work creates change that holds, not initiatives that fade.