About

Melanie is an experienced leadership consultant and coach who centers her practice on helping current and future leaders, teams and organizations break through challenges and expand capabilities to become the best they can be. Throughout her career, Melanie has facilitated groups and coached within organizations of all sizes in a wide range of industries with a focus on creating immediate impact, measurable results and sustainable change using a strengths-based approach. She works as a partner to enterprise decision makers in defining ways to sharpen leadership and teams, resulting in:

• Tighter alignment to goals & outcomes
• Expanded leadership capability
• Improved team performance and productivity
• Clarity around team structures and targets
• Healthy, positive, collaborative team culture
• Effective change management 

Melanie’s true passion and gift lie in bringing teams together to build productive harmony. It’s not about manufacturing relationships, but rather learning to recognize the true power that all team members bring, and exercising appreciation and using gifts that are unique and valuable. Through building greater self-awareness, facilitated highly productive conversations, and a new expectation on norms, any team can work together to create greatness.

Education and Certifications

• Masters of Science, Human Resource Development
• Certificate of Coaching
• Certificate in Blended Learning
• Certificate in E-Learning Design

Experience with Clients

• PayPal
• ServiceNow
• LinkedIn – LinkedIn Learning
• Vistage
• University of San Diego California
• Kofax
• Special Olympics
• The Academy of Professional Excellence
• Verimatrix
• California Public Defenders Association
• THS National 
• Moxie Institute

Case Study

Client: Newly Appointed CEO

The Need: A new organization comprised of 2: one acquiring the other, and a new CEO to lead them. With the new organization came a new senior team- all armed with the task of leading this new company into the future. The CEO came to Melanie to help them spark trust and commitment in his new team of leaders. During a 2-day workshop, she introduced them to exercises exposing them to vulnerability and transparency and worked to bind them into a unified front.

Result: The senior team came together for the very first time and, in two days, came to know one another in a new way. One leader said, “This summit was an unexpected gift to me and my colleagues. I feel like I can truly count on these people, whatever comes our way.”