Melanie Parish, MCC

  The show’s guest in this episode is Brandi Olson. She is a best-selling author, speaker, and organizational agility leader. She believes that the only place to do good work is in reality, and does her work from St Paul, Minnesota where she lives with her husband, two kids, four chickens and many honeybees. —   Listen to the podcast here Leadership and Agility with Brandi Olson Hello, I’m Melanie Parish, I am super excited to be here live with you today. And I have been having the most interesting conversations about accountability, both with my clients, I’ve been thinking...... Read More

  The show’s guest in this episode is Claudia Aronowitz. She’s a personal development and relationship coach. She also works with people in leadership. And she’s passionate about helping people feel good with their whole self and helping them to create strong and positive relationships with others. —   Listen to the podcast here Tools to Create Sincere, Peaceful, and Harmonious Relationships in Your Professional and Personal Life with Claudia Aronowitz Hello, everybody. I’m Melanie Parish, it’s so great to be here with you live today on the experimental leader podcast. It’s Election Day in the United States. And as...... Read More

  The show’s guest in this episode is Anne Bokma. She is an award-winning freelance journalist, memoir coach, dating coach and the author of My Year of Living Spiritually: From Woo-Woo to Wonderful—One Woman’s Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life. —     Listen to the podcast here The Power of Telling Your Story Through Memoir with Anne Bokma Hi, everybody, I’m Melanie Parish, it’s so great to be here live with you today. We have a great show for you today. And I’ve been thinking about my own leadership a lot lately. I had a conversation with a...... Read More

  —   Listen to the podcast here Sh*t Happens Hello, and welcome to the experimental leader Podcast. I’m Melanie Parrish, your host. And it’s great to be here with you today. I’ve been thinking about knitting and picket fences and I wanted to talk about that a little bit today, and kind of how they relate to business. When we moved to Hamilton, Ontario 20 years ago, my lovely husband Mel sent me with his, his down payment, that he’d been saving for his whole life to have I owned a house in Colorado, and he said, you know,...... Read More

  The show’s guest in this episode is Kimberly Wiefling. She is a force of nature and an expert in helping people turn ideas into impact. She’s a physicist by education, she worked at HP for 10 years, and then three years in Silicon Valley startups. Her superpower is turning managers into leaders, who use their strengths to achieve impossible together groups become true teams who can achieve impossible together. —     Listen to the podcast here Exploring Positive Intelligence with Kimberly Wiefling Hello, it’s so nice to be here with you today. I’m Melanie Parish. And I am...... Read More

  The show’s guest in this episode is George Murray. He is an award-winning author and global operations leader. He inspires business owners & professionals to go from where they are today to where they want to be tomorrow! —     Listen to the podcast here Igniting a Workforce in Today’s Employment Market with George Murray Hey, everybody, it’s great to be here live with you today. And I’ve been thinking about problem solving because I had a problem this week, I had a big problem. I went swimming on Wednesday, I swim two or three days a week,...... Read More

  Business coaching is about being 100% present to your client. For our International Coaches Week special episode, our guest is Garry Schleifer, a business coach and the publisher of Choice, the magazine of professional coaching. In this episode, Garry talks about his experiences as a business coach. To Garry, values are very important in coaching; you need to hire and work with people who share your values. Never resting on your laurels as a coach is also essential. After all, mastery is not a destination but a journey. Do you want to learn more from Garry’s experiences to become...... Read More

What does it take to go from being broke and living out in a hostel for five months to becoming a serial tech entrepreneur and building two multimillion-dollar companies? Bernardo de la Vega, the host of The Next Big Pivot podcast and the man behind the app, Fiesta, sits down with Melanie Parish to share with us his journey. He gives us a view of how he is creating the TikTok for podcasts and how, as a leader, he is going after the blue ocean and facing challenges during the uncertain COVID-19 world. Having been working with podcasts, Bernardo then shares his opinions on what makes a good podcaster.... Read More

Elevate the dialogue around leadership. Give people a clear path to help them try new things, and create space for innovation with experimental leadership methods.... Read More

Having an experimental mindset helps leaders and teams open a variety of possibilities and a free flow of ideas. Seeing the things you try as experiments orients you to collect data and evaluate whether the experiments or things you try are working or not. Sometimes a team will luck into things that work but many times they don’t. When things don’t go as hoped, we fail. An old friend of mine says, “Education is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” And education can feel like a consolation prize in the race to innovate. It isn’t about whether it feels bad to fail (it does), but how to emerge resilient and ready to experiment again. To fail better, experiments need to be safe-to fail, small enough to iterate often, and there needs to be a plan in place for data collection and decisions about next steps.... Read More