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Mel Ross
Location: North
Qualifications: ILM 7 Executive Mentoring and Coaching, Level 2 Counselling, Flow Practitioner, Breathcoach, LifeCoach
Bio
Mel is the creator and author of The Dilyn WayTM Framework and Body of Knowledge for digital leadership and digital change in transformation. She works with leaders and leadership teams all over the world to develop digital ways of thinking and behaving to thrive and succeed. She has worked as an executive mentor and coach for over 10 years. Before this Mel held executive leadership roles with large multinationals including Disney, where she held an executive leadership position across CEE and Emerging Markets as well as being a part of the global digital strategy board. Her expertise as an executive leader has been across digital strategy, digital chang adoption and organisational digital transformation. Her success has largely been due to her expertise in developing role-model digital leadership and aligning digital transformation with culture. She is an entrepreneur, having started and owned multiple businesses across the UK and Australasia.
Mel has pioneered the adoption of digital leadership as an identity not a skill for the last decade, working with senior leaders of large enterprise, public sectors and the SMB market in that endeavour.
Mel also tutors in the following subjects with a specialism for digital leadership, modernisation, becoming future fit and digital transformation:
Advanced Leadership in a digital world
Strategic Management in a digital World
MBA
Non-Executive Development
She contributes her services as a volunteer to the Help To Grow scheme as well as having worked with the UN and as an AWE mentor supporting female leaders who are faced with challenges to develop independence through entrepreneurial projects.
She has extensive international experience, having lived and worked in New Zealand for 9 years, with experience working in and with leaders across Asia and the Middle East.
Mel is also well known for her work on Menopause in the Workplace and Women in Leadership, regularly seen as a speaker and guest on podcasts talking about TEA Mastery - Time, Energy and Attention management. She also regularly speaks at conferences on subjects specific to modern mindset and humanising business work that include: Hopeful Leadership, Developing an AI Mindset, Attention Management, Coherence and Modern Mindset Theory.
As well as her executive mentoring and coaching experience (ILM 7 Qualified), Mel is a qualified Breath Coach, Flow Practitioner and Modern Mindset practitioner and mentor. She has trained in Positive Intelligence (PQ) and Positive psychology.
She believes that: The gift of the age we live in, is our ability to reconnect with our humanity by leveraging digital and data for good.