Michelle Palys
Vice President of Performance Excellence,
Grraycor
Michelle Palys is Vice President of Performance Excellence at Graycor, where she builds the systems, quality, and operational discipline that let construction businesses scale without losing the human side of the work. A civil engineer trained in Mexico with an MBA and advanced quality training from Japan, she has spent nearly two decades turning complex operations into practical systems people actually use. Her work spans process improvement, quality, and the disciplined adoption of AI in construction, always grounded in one belief: great performance and genuine care for people are not opposites.