What We Do
Creativity. Leadership. Impact.
Executive Coaching
Today’s leaders are tasked with more uncertainty and responsibility than ever before. In order to meet the day to day challenges of leading teams, leaders need to leverage their innate strengths and grow their emotional intelligence skills. Executive Coaching can support leaders in acute situations or ongoing development.
Executive Coaching supports leaders so they can:
- Increase their influence
- Make better decisions faster
- Delegate with more success
- Deepen resiliency
- Communicate for impact
Group Training and Leadership Labs
Growing a team of high performers starts with empowering them to be responsible, resilient leaders. Through customized programs, your team will grow together, learning new tools and frameworks while sharing experiences in a peer-to-peer environment. This approach not only builds skills but also strengthens relationships and accountability, making the learning actionable and sustainable over time.
What outcomes do you want for your team or organization?
- Improve communication and collaboration
- Increase engagement, performance and overall well being
- Decrease conflict and grow a team that plays well together
- Support high performers to be promotion ready
- Grow management skills for new leaders
We’ll customize what works best for your group:
- Lunch and Learns
- Half-Day workshops
- Full-Day events
- Multi-Session programs
Strategic Facilitation
Facing change management challenges? Feeling understaffed or overwhelmed? Ready to level up your A-team? Great solutions come from within your team—we help create the environment, structure, and guidance to bring them to the surface. By removing barriers and cutting through the noise, we enable your team to generate the strategies that work best for them. Let’s design a customized approach that meets your team where they are and aligns them toward performance objectives.
Components to consider:
- Intake interviews
- Assessments
- Facilitated strategy conversations
- One to one coaching
Assessments
Kolbe Assessment
All of us have innate problem-solving instincts. These instincts function alongside our cognitive (IQ) and emotional (EQ) intelligence. Knowing and understanding what these innate strengths are at the individual and team level is key to delivering results that matter.
If you want greater productivity and efficiency with less stress, then working with the Kolbe System may be the next step in leveling up your team’s well being and results.
Understanding Kolbe allows leaders to:
- Identify the talent on your team and the instinctive strengths they bring to the table.
- Lead team members to achieve greater productivity and efficiency.
- Hire more effectively.
Emotional Intelligence (EQi2.0)
Emotional Intelligence is not just about emotions. It’s a set of social and emotional skills that impact how we perceive and express ourselves, develop and maintain social relationships, cope with challenges and make decisions.
How we apply these skills impacts our overall well being as well as our performance. It’s a key indicator of personal and professional potential.
The best part about these skills?
They are trainable. We have the data and science to better understand how we can use our mind to train our brain. Through intention and practice, we can work through challenges that lead to more meaningful success.
This rigorous and specific assessment, report and debrief session provides the information, tools and support to increase your self awareness and achieve your key objectives.
Testimonials
“Melissa Thornley’s coaching has been instrumental in helping me take my leadership to the next level and was instrumental in helping me successfully pivot my live event business to virtual events in 2020. I love working with Melissa because she brings a great energy and creativity to the coaching sessions. Her style is the starting point. She possesses a positive attitude and engaging communication skills that make me look forward to every session. The real gift is her substance. She has a rare gift for speaking the truth in a way that I can hear it so I better hold myself accountable to my goals. Having Melissa in my ‘inner-circle’ has helped me achieve better results at work, and in life. I can’t recommend her highly enough!”
– Brendan Dowd, Director, Institute for Management Studies
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“During our workshop session, Melissa’s warmth and expertise created a space where we felt seen, heard, and supported. Through her guidance, we delved deep into our own leadership values, unlocking new insights that will undoubtedly shape our professional journeys. We learned to work in harmony with our brains, making decisions not against them, and discovered practical tools to manage stress and prioritize effectively – skills that will serve us well in every aspect of life. Melissa’s infectious energy and genuine passion for our growth made the experience all the more enriching, leaving an indelible mark on each of us.”
– Sai Roshni Mani, Marketing Associate at Dechen Consulting Group Inc.
“What stood out the most was how appreciative our Board members were of the relationship building and trust building that happened in our last meeting. The environment Melissa created allowed everyone to bring their unique backgrounds and experience to the table in an authentic way.”
– Jennifer Yonally, Executive Director, Bookkeeper, and Tap Dancer
“Melissa is a truly effective communicator and leader. I had the delight of working with her twice: when she was a guest speaker and career coach. Her insights get straight to the issue, yet are also energized and optimistic.
At an ad agency, we invited Melissa to be our guest speaker for Women’s History Month. The subject of her talk was growing influence in an inclusive way. I could tell the 120 staff were truly engaged listening to her — 60 stayed on after the official hour ended, which was unprecedented. Within the week, I observed several coworkers implementing her communication tips, which improved working relationships.
I also thank Melissa for helping me to establish clear values for my own career. This mindset is making a huge impact.”
– Annie Sui, Sr. Copywriter