Is now the time?...
Are you ready to lift the burden of everything you're supposed to do to lead?
Are you tired of confusion, dissonance, and conflict?
Step out of the cookie cutter paradigm, narrowly defined by studying leaders of the past. Unknowingly misapplying military hierarchy and battlefield processes to 'win', internal dynamics stay hidden, working against long-term flourishing of the organizations as well as the leaders themselves.
So much as changed, there are indications they are no longer even effective in warfare or law. In the dynamics to 'win', we are creating more change than our human systems can integrate. And those human systems are designed by nature for care.
Stress is no longer something to ignore or manage. It’s something to listen to. Yours is rich with wisdom. Why not listen?
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Hello, I'm Shel Melroe
EXECUTIVE COACH & CONSULTANT
MINNESOTA, US
I'M HERE FOR YOU.
When that nudge from within says, "There's got to be another way." It might speak softly. It might yell or whine. It might wake you at 3 a.m. when you're still enough to listen. Trust it's worth listening.
NO PRESSURE.
I'm committed to developing autonomy with care; intention rather than immediacy. I use an approach contrary to all of the 'best practices' that instigate fear, inadequacy, and urgency.
You'll know when the time is right for you.
Detangle yourself from those tethers
and become the leader that only you can be.
Confident in resolving the messy challenges we face.
An exciting, unprecedented time is calling for a new paradigm of leadership.
From mechanistic to humanistic.
Clarity is possible through chaos and unknow-ables. Wellbeing and leading can be synergistic.
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Humanistic leadership is heart-first, just like human nature.
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Head-heart (-and spirit, if you are open to it) synchrony leads us to be the natural habitat in which humans flourish: caring, harmonizing, and creatively collaborating across positions and perspectives.
Humanistic leadership develops confidence to stay in your integrity and growth as a leader, unified within and around for what is yet to come.
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Leading is no longer defined by what you do; it's how you are.
If you're ready to be a leader of leaders, bridging the gaps,
let’s grow forward together.​
WHO I WORK WITH
BUSINESS EXECUTIVES
Tired of stress, burnout, unhealthy coping, or your personal life falling apart while you keep it looking good to the outside.
The incongruence is palpable; the pressure, relentless.
NONPROFIT EXECUTIVES
The mission remains clear. The processes for funding have become tangled with keeping grant providers and donors happy, regardless if on mission or not.
Simultaneously, the need is exploding. The burden of empowering others feels heavy and relentless.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
There's never been a more challenging time for balancing paradox. Constant exposure to divisiveness, power struggles, and gamesmanship wears on internal capacity to hold value of people and challenge outdated beliefs with compassion.
SCIENCE & TECH LEADERS
Science opened the opportunity for knowledge to justify a seat at the table. Yet staying true to the context of a discovery is out of your control with focus on sci/tech for profits. You see the long-term consequences of quick-fixes, yet are pushed to the fringe when others don't like what you have to say.
AND THE SPACE BETWEEN
Your effectiveness at what you do comes from the inside out.
With a humanistic approach, we challenge industry and profession best practices that conditioned you for greatness in the past.
We restore healthy dynamics within you for more ease in living your life AND more effectiveness in what you do.
Have you noticed?...things have changed!
Find your empowerment to lead your way.
Leading within first.
Starting a ripple of harmonized growth around.
HOW I SERVE
WITH INNOVATIVE PARADIGM FOR MESSY CHALLENGES
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COACHING
Individual Regeneration
Integrating knowledge of both coaching and therapy, reorganized into an approach congruent with natural human development.
Navigate a proprietary process guiding you to be the expert of you, restoring your trust in the innate adaptive intelligence within you. Get on the lifelong trajectory of being the best you as a whole person through cycles of restoration and growth. Build your confidence through short 3-6 month excursions or embark on a yearlong trek.
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CONSULTING
Organizational Transformation
Once heart-mind synchrony flows through the executive team, the spiral extends outward to the dynamic flow between strategy and culture, the mind-heart rhythm of the organization.
Always in a dynamic bi-directional exchange, synchrony enlivens the organization as a living system, fostering short term and long term health Using a customized process, you'll vet out the outdated best practices that constrict people into cogs, unable to grow as they're stuck in survival from crisis to crisis.
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CONVENING
Cross-Boundary
Expedition
Addressing the dynamics for new understanding takes expansion of creativity with different perspectives and exploration of biases that naturally exist in how we've been doing 'science' and 'systems'. Using a proprietary approach with multi-directional interaction in a rhythm that synchronizes with natural human growth, I'll design and facilitate a customized EXPEDITION for new discovery and harmonized relationships to sustain momentum beyond the Expedition.
UNIQUE EXPERTISE
Humanistic Leadership Development
Proprietary approach to restore natural growth trajectory through adult lifephase, trusting innate adaptive intelligence and internal guidance system navigating present challenges. Approach integrates therapeutic modalities and coaching principles for an oscillating rhythm of internal restoration and expansion true to human nature rather than against it.
Humanistic Challenge Resolution
Root cause resolution rather than quick-fix solution is essential in dynamic systems. First understand what drives the current patterns, embrace that outputs are inputs and inputs are outputs. Rules bring chaos to open, dynamic systems - within people and between them. A new paradigm enables authentic optimization across criteria, short and long term, customized for the context.
Human Dynamics across Context & Lifespan
Integration of research across disciplines to appreciate short term / long term adaptive patterning through scaffolding, conditioning, and life long neuroplasticity. We don't become what others try to 'get us' to be; we become what our adaptive intelligence deems necessary for survival through it. If it's too much in the short term, long term sustainable vitality is compromised.
PERSONAL DIFFERENTIATORS
Integrative Thinking
Integrative Thinking has been a by-product of the diverse experiences over my professional career. Allowing the canvas to continually expand, limitless in contextual connections between perspectives, information, and unknowns takes understanding to places beyond evaluation and categorizing.
Rounded Question Asking
Regardless the problem solving method, the first stage of problem and objective clarification is essential to effective - know that you are working on the right problems. Without asking the right questions, the hidden dynamics underlying challenges remain undetected. Accepting and going through biases and discomfort are the portal to new pathways of resolution.
Process Design & Facilitation
As a co-creative collaborative partner, I'll personalize the roadmap incorporating everything in my change leadership, group facilitation, complex decision-making, and human development toolboxes. Starting where you are and setting a sequence that aligns with your innate trajectory, I'm the guide on the side as you resume the driver's seat from within you, effectively growing through the terrain you traverse. ​
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
Present
Executive Coach & Consultant
SHELLY MELROE CONSULTING
Empowering executives and change leaders to unleash their full potential, leading a paradigm for the future unfolding after the current chaos and confusion. Providing personalized coaching and consulting to the leaders of leaders.
2019-2026
Complex/Developmental Trauma Therapist
Health Resolution Coach
RHYTHM FOR LIVING THERAPY & COUNSELING
Private practice.
Guiding resolution at root cause of mental health challenges entangled with physical, relational, and spiritual health.
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Conducted extensive research by self-study and trainings across modalities and disciplines, building integrated framework of human dynamics within the whole person, across contexts, and throughout lifespan. Applied dynamic root cause resolution approach to complex client conditions.​
Certifications: various therapeutic modalities​
2018
MN MFT Licensure 2020
M.A. MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY
Bethel University, Minnesota, US
2008-2018
External Consultant
CONFLUENCY, LLC
Consultancy designing and facilitating cross-boundary collaboration initiatives
Example Initiatives: Sci/Tech Technology Roadmapping, Value Stream Optimization, Global Brand Innovation Summit
Clients: UofM, Cenex Harvest States, ConAgra, OSU, Grains for Health, General Mills, Cargill, Yoplait France
Certifications: High Performance Organizations, Systems Modeling, Coaching with Multiple Models
1991-2008
Internal Consultant Positions
GENERAL MILLS, INC - THE PILLSBURY COMPANY
CARGILL
SHELL PLC
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Positions to lead organizational change in the use of data, information, and collaborative processes across internal and external boundaries. Built expertise in customized design and facilitation of science/technology innovation as well as consumer innovation.
Project Examples: Union/Management Safety Collaborative, Six Sigma and Lean Sigma implementations, change initiatives for expanded use of data and information in decision making, cross-boundary strategic planning, Science/Tech Roadmapping, Leadership Development, Technical and Consumer Research Design and Integration, SQC/SPC Implementations​
1991
M.S. STATISTICS
Iowa State University, Iowa, US