Melanie Parish, MCC

Resetting Team Behaviors with Melanie Parish   powered by Sounder   Phil Buckley is joined by speaker, podcast host, and Master Certified Coach Melanie Parish to discuss the best ways to reset team behaviors during a change initiative. Team ways of working can morph as a change project progresses. Agreements made at a team kick-off meeting can be forgotten or ignored, and new ones emerge. Although some new behaviors can enhance productivity, most have the opposite effect. It’s important to reset how people work together when bad behaviors occur because they quickly become established and form new norms. So, how...... Read More

How does one teach language to kids from an online setting and still be fun and engaging? It would seem impossible until you see what Les Petites Pommes is doing. Founded by Mary Clements in 2009, the award-winning Canadian company specializes in creating programs that help children learn French. The CEO herself joins Melanie Parish in today’s episode to share what the pivot looked like for their company when COVID-19 forced them to shift everything online. An artist by heart, Mary led her company to thrive in the midst of the pandemic through willful experimentation and trailblazing. Listen to the episode to learn more about this beautiful pivot story.... Read More

The pandemic has pushed many of us to experiment with the ways we lead our businesses and organizations. What we’re used to in the past does not anymore apply today. One area that is undeniably transformed is that of face to face interactions with people. This episode’s guest, Kelly Ann McKnight, the founder of Stone Ridge Consulting, has been doing quite the experiment. She has shifted her focus from just face-to-face consulting and facilitation to the learning journeys by building online learning. Here, she sits down with Melanie Parish to share how she is navigating through this uncertainty and, with her book called The Resilience Way, helping others do the same and come out of the other side better than ever.... Read More

Believing in yourself is a common mantra we hear for motivation, but it is easier said than done. Going past all of the self-doubts, worries, and fears due to imposter syndrome is hard, but we can definitely gain a well-deserved self-trust by seeing our uniqueness despite our flaws. Melanie Parish is joined by public speaker and philanthropist Angel Ribo to discuss how to embrace your true self and let it out for everyone to see. After all, we must not be dictated by our surroundings but by what lies inside ourselves. Angel also shares what kind of fears keep him awake at night, some tips regarding self-care, and experimenting in the middle of the pandemic.... Read More

Most of us have grown up with the idea that business should always be about the bottomline – profits, revenue, growth – but there is a rising trend of redefining that bottomline to include compassion, empathy, support, care and camaraderie. International business consultant, international speaker, lecturer, and best-selling author, Dr. Bruno Cignacco elevates this line of thinking into a full-blown business philosophy with his latest book, The Art of Compassionate Business. Joining Melanie Parish in this episode, he explains what compassion means in business and why we need to shift our attention to striking a balance between the quantitative and qualitative aspects of business. As Albert Einstein once said, “Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted.” This is the long version of that.... Read More

Melanie Parish’s Favorite Mistake, Responding to a Request for Proposal       EPISODE SUMMARY In today’s episode, Melanie shares her “favorite mistake” about the contracting process with a client. Why was she “naive” about this process? We also discuss what it means to be an “experimental leader” and a “new kind of boss.” How can we cultivate a culture of innovators? What should we do when some experiments seem like “mistakes”?   Mark Graban (0s): Episode 17 Melanie Parrish, “the experimental leader.” Melanie Parish (6s): I love this question. It’s a fantastic question. It’s really interesting to think about...... 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

If we are going to experience change at all (which we’re bound to, whether we like it or not), we might as well change confidently. Senior change management professional, Phil Buckley drives this message loud and clear in his award-winning book, Change with Confidence. Having managed 32 large-scale change projects all over the Anglo-American world, Phil inspires leaders to embrace change as an opportunity to grow. In this conversation with Melanie Parish, he discusses the role of experimentation in managing change, especially in these fascinating times. He also discusses the value of feedback and co-creation in effective leadership. Phil is making a new book set to come out next year as well. Find out what to expect from it!... Read More

Many of us miss out on living the life of our dreams because we’re so caught up with work that does not fulfill us anymore. Teaching you how to create the life of our dreams without sacrificing what we love, Melanie Parish interviews TEDx speaker and Life Mastery Coach, Laura DiBenedetto. Here, Laura talks about leadership and the fine line between when a leader needs to be patient and when a leader needs to be a little bit impatient. She also discusses the imposter syndrome and how people can get out of it when it shows up. Not forgetting herself in the equation, Laura then shares the things she does to take care of herself and rejuvenate. Tune into this conversation as she shares more about her life and how she came back from retirement better than ever.... Read More

There's a myth that says if your work is meaningful enough, you don't need to practice self-care. That is a complete lie. We're all serving one another. As such, it's really important for people who are serving clients to take that moment for self-care. On today’s show, Melanie Parish chats with leadership development expert Tony Loyd about self-care and how to increase it. They also touch on the imposter syndrome and how we can reinforce our own value as human beings.... Read More