My Credentials

20 years Leadership Experience

20 years leadership experience working with, advising and delivering to Chief Executives and senior leaders, as well as coaching and building high performing leaders and leadership teams.

National and International Experience

Worked with a wide range of organisations including government departments, local government, not-for-profit organisations, privately owned companies and the health sector throughout New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Subject Matter Expertise

Direct experience in the establishment of new services and businesses, leading organisations to co-create culture, common purpose and strategy, leading redesign and transformational programmes and managing change and implementation.

Leadership Development

Expertise in developing leaders and leadership teams. Highly skilled and experienced in the design and facilitation of leadership development programmes and workshops.

Gallup-Certified Strengths Leadership Coach

Significant experience and expertise coaching people and leadership teams on how to harness their strengths, deliver strengths-based leadership and develop their authentic leadership style.

All-Of-Government Provider Panel

All-Of-Government provider panel Consultancy services for Change and Human Resources.

Leadership Development Centre – New People Leader Development and New Leaders of Leaders Development

Expertise in developing leaders and leadership teams. Highly skilled and experienced in the design and facilitation of leadership development programmes and workshops.

Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach

As a Gallup-Certified Strengths Leadership Coach I am passionate about bringing the best out of people through strengths based leadership development. I provide individual or leadership team based coaching to enable people to value and develop their talents into powerful strengths, thereby achieving higher levels of engagement, well being, performance and ultimately success.

Leadership Development Centre

Melanie is a senior leadership practitioner and coach with over 22 years’ of leadership experience working with, advising and delivering to chief executives and senior leaders in the public service. She is a Pre-qualified facilitator for the Leadership Development Centre to deliver New People Leader (NPL) and Leaders of Leaders programme to member agencies.

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