What We Offer
A Choice
When teams operate with shared purpose, explicit values-based standards and respect for everyone’s role in the organization, they offer tremendous reward. When they’re dysfunctional, it’s a nightmare.
But nightmares are a choice. It’s possible to empower teams according to their members’ capabilities and potential. Doing so allows for the joy of creating benefit to the company and to members themselves. This path of growth and success naturally promotes workplace cohesion, market responsiveness and company resilience.
Together we can find ways to guide and inspire your contributors to become highly functioning and responsive. And help you navigate the “up-power” challenges that leaders face in working with top management and corporate boards.
Outcomes
The natural confidence that arises from seeing our own leadership potential clearly and that of our team’s - what they can do to make success happen - will allow for effective and even daring mutual feedback. It’s the only way to invite and sustain team growth and build long term success - resilience - and loyalty.
Our Approach
Establishing a highly functioning, empowered workplace requires three elements: A) creating an environment where contributors’ impact is invited; B) providing them a path to earn that impact; and which involves C) courageous communications skills, which can be learned or refined.
In partnership, we’ll evaluate how your teams are functioning and where change is needed. In addition to working one-on-one, you’ll have the option of joining me in working with your team directly, supported by skilled facilitation.
Whether or not you're looking to improve teams, we’ll explore your leadership style. Good leaders are those who take an interest in their habitual approaches. Gaining an understanding of the whys and hows of one’s decision-making patterns allows for the possibility of new approaches and fresh ideas.
Our Services
Executive Coaching Package
This package offers the corporate leader a series of conversations in which obstacles to fulfilling one’s leadership goals are explored and addressed. The coaching includes evaluating workplace challenges, such as optimizing team performance and improving senior leadership communications and alignment. As a part of these activities, various exercises designed to allow for greater clarity regarding one’s own approaches and potential will be offered according to your interests and needs.
Six 1.5 Hour Sessions | $1950 | Get started
Professional Team Building Package
This includes the sessions described in the Executive Coaching Package plus five gatherings with the leader’s work team. Separately, the coach will work with the team to discern obstacles and potential from their perspective and then join with the leader to design and co-lead the final two gatherings and create agreement for moving forward.
Eleven 1.5 Hour Sessions | $3950 | Get started
Leadership Coaching Package
This is designed to build leadership skills in professional roles and daily life. Using some of the approaches noted in the Executive Coaching Package, the emphasis is on personal goals regarding such things as improving workplace relations, managing advancement, skillfully engaging conflict, and honing time management and organizing skills.
Five 1 Hour Sessions | $875 | Get started
Life Transition Package
This package is offered to those in the midst of life transitions. In our conversations you’ll be supported in exploring what is happening, where you see yourself next, and what you need to get there. This can also address time management and planning challenges and dealing with losses of all sorts. Various supportive exercises, including meditation and writing activities, will be offered based on your interests and needs.
Five 1 Hour Sessions | $875 | Get started
“Top Up”
For those who have completed the Leadership Coaching or Life Transition packages and seek ongoing support, conversations on a monthly or quarterly basis can be arranged.
$175 per session | Get started
About Melanie
A childhood fascination with astronomy led Melanie to earn an astrophysics degree at CSUN where her inner geek enjoyed monitoring sunspots at the school's solar observatory.
This led to her becoming a design engineer for Spectrolab, a division of Boeing that manufactures solar panels to power commercial satellites and interplanetary spacecraft. She quickly realized that while she was a capable engineer, she’d have greater impact working directly with the company’s customers, like mission specialists at JPL-NASA and the European Space Agency. After Boeing sponsored an executive business program at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management, she spent over 20 years as an International Business Development Director, securing a host of huge contracts and learning a lot about leading multi-disciplinary teams under competitive pressure and how to manage her demanding (and ultimately supportive) bosses.
When Melanie was ready for a change, her long interest in meditation and big questions about life and death led her to complete a Master of Divinity degree at Naropa University and then go on to run a number of meditation non-profits. This was harder than she expected! Leading non-profits can be incredibly challenging; one is always hustling for funding, volunteers, grants and new members.
Turning to coaching, Melanie completed training and was certified by Newfield Network. Her interest is in offering all she's learned in the corporate and non-profit sectors to support senior team leaders and executives looking to become great leaders and to grow great leaders themselves.
Want to see Melanie in action?
Here’s a clip taken from a client session with Wynn Helms, a California business owner (with permission).
Contact us.
Please contact me to schedule services, ask questions, or arrange a free 45-minute consultation to see if we’re a good fit.