All posts by: Melanie Parish

Leadership: Getting Clear About What You’re Driving Towards With Adam Kreek

​Leadership is both a gift and a challenge. As a leader, you are constantly pushed to your breaking point. You have to be disciplined, calculated, focused, determined, and find ways to break through the blockages. Adam Kreek, one of North America's top executive business coaches, joins Melanie Parish to talk about leadership and what people should be thinking about their own leadership right now. He also highlights the importance of getting clear about your leadership goals – what you’re driving towards. Adam founded KreekSpeak Business Solutions in 2008 and have been coaching, writing, speaking, and training ever since. His bestselling business book, The Responsibility Ethic, teaches us the “how” of self-leadership, driving personal and professional results in individuals and organizations.... Read More

Brand Alignment: Brand Success Through Storytelling And Authenticity With Janel Dyan

Creating a successful brand is all about building trust and authenticity. When you’re authentic and in alignment with your brand, you’re able to draw people in and lead them. Janel Dyan joins Melanie Parish to discuss about brand alignment and how storytelling and being authentic is very important in building trust with your audience, consumers, and employees. Janel is an executive brand strategist aimed towards leadership success. Listen in as she talks more about brand alignment, authenticity, and consumer trust.... Read More

Becoming Better Leaders Through Group Coaching With Glain Roberts-McCabe

As a leader, you’re constantly faced with change, disruption, and growth. The question is, how do you navigate through that? Glain Roberts-McCabe joins Melanie Parish to share how her company is helping leaders build the skills and behaviors they need to be successful, not just now but down the road through their group coaching approach. Glain and her team at The Roundtable develop coaching programs that involve redefining change and disruption - things that can help build success. Listen in as Glain and Melanie talk about leadership and how coaching groups like The Roundtable can help leaders become better at what they do.... Read More

Adapting To Disruptions Caused By COVID-19 With Jesse Finkelstein

Listen in as Melanie Parish talks to co-founder and principal at Page Two Books, Jesse Finkelstein, about adapting to disruptions in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. Page Two Books is a publishing company aimed at helping authors of non-fiction books. Jesse discusses how the company focuses on getting the message across from authors to the readers despite the current pandemic. Aspects of physical distancing are also talked about in this episode. Specifically, on how her team works on bringing on years of expertise while maintaining safety during the current circumstances.... Read More

Podcast on Consulting Business

Leadership Consulting: How To Lead Your Clients As A Consultant EPISODE SUMMARY As an organization grows, so does the need for a whole army of leadership positions that need to be filled with capable individuals who can work with independence and initiative. Leadership consulting helps people develop their management and leadership skills and thrive in fast-paced environments. Award-winning coach, speaker, consultant, and author Melanie Parish has been in this business for many years, working with organizations ranging from a Fortune 50 company to IT startups. Joining Michael Zipursky on the show, Melanie walks us through her process of acquiring clients and building...... Read More

Achieving Maximum Happiness With Andrew Hallam

Prioritizing our needs and wants can lead to achieving a feeling of fulfillment. On today’s show, listen in as Melanie Parish interviews Andrew Hallam about achieving gratification by doing precisely this. Andrew is a financial wellness speaker who has delivered more than 150 talks on investing, happiness, and money. He discusses the concept of maximum happiness and introduces his book called Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School, which talks about the details of the financial services industry. Learn more as Andrew talks about prioritization, money, and gratification in today’s episode.... Read More

Article in CEO Blog Nation

Being a leader is lonely work, none more so than today. As an executive coach, I hear it from leaders often. They say, “I was doing a good job as an individual contributor, but now I’m not sure what I should be doing after my promotion. I feel really alone.” They find themselves in a leadership role, running a remote company, isolated from their team, without much guidance and they aren’t sure how they can “skill up.” Every leader has to find their own way of doing the work of leadership. They have had a variety of bosses in their career but they aren’t sure who to emulate, and they may feel like they aren’t providing any real value in the organization any more. Some get sucked into a spiral of trying to do more and more work, while missing the real work of leading.... Read More

Article in InBusiness

Being a leader is lonely work, none more so than today. As an executive coach, I hear it from leaders often. They say, “I was doing a good job as an individual contributor, but now I’m not sure what I should be doing after my promotion. I feel really alone.” They find themselves in a leadership role, running a remote company, isolated from their team, without much guidance and they aren’t sure how they can “skill up.” Every leader has to find their own way of doing the work of leadership. They have had a variety of bosses in their career but they aren’t sure who to emulate, and they may feel like they aren’t providing any real value in the organization any more. Some get sucked into a spiral of trying to do more and more work, while missing the real work of leading.... Read More

Article in Rethink Retail

Being a leader is lonely work, none more so than now. As an executive coach, I hear it from leaders often. They say, “I was doing a good job as an individual contributor, but now I’m not sure what I should be doing after my promotion. I feel really alone.” They find themselves in a leadership role, running a remote company, isolated from their team, without much guidance and they aren’t sure how they can “skill up.”... Read More

Modeling Accountable Leadership In Your Organization With Dr. Vince Molinaro

How important is a culture of accountability in an organization? What role do leaders have to play to foster this accountability? What does accountable leadership mean for the performance of a company? Vince Molinaro, Ph.D., the Founder and CEO of Leadership Contract Inc., answers these questions as he joins Melanie Parish on the show. A successful author, speaker, leadership adviser, and researcher, Vince has helped create one of the leading brands in the human capital industry. He has recently released his latest book, Accountable Leaders, which he and Melanie dissect in this conversation.... Read More