As a coach, Melinda helps professionals create impact and income in their work while having life balance to do what’s most important to them. As a consultant, Melinda creates leadership development programs and works to grow leaders and teams in the US, East Africa and abroad.

Melinda served as an executive director to nonprofit organizations for over a decade, and currently teaches about social entrepreneurship and nonprofit leadership at DePaul University. She sits on the board of Pangea, a nonprofit who works to bring books to children and families in East Africa. She holds a M.Ed. in Multicultural Literature and a working M.S. in International Public Service, with a focus on women leaders in emerging nations.

Melinda has four kiddos (middle school to college-age), an awesome husband, and moved from the big city to beautiful North Carolina where she gets everyone out paddle boarding, hiking and exploring. She’s a certified yoga instructor and has practiced meditation & yoga for over 30 years. She has a lifelong passion for international travel and meeting people from different cultures—street food and farmer’s markets are her favorites—and she takes her family on many adventures. She considers the south of Spain to be a second home.