Melanie Parish, MCC

Wild-Hearted Experimentation: Melanie Parish of The Experimental Leader         You can also access the podcast episode at: https://www.wildheartsatwork.com/1814570/9531777-wild-hearted-experimentation-melanie-parish-of-the-experimental-leader... Read More

What It’s Like to Be LGBTQ In the Workplace with Melanie Parish     “How can I make this easy for you? Because I want to.” Powerful words by Melanie Parish about how to support members of the LGBTQ community when you don’t quite know how. You don’t need to know everything about LGBTQ to work towards creating a respectful and accepting workplace environment. Rather, you need to be able to sit in uncomfortable conversations, be willing to make mistakes and be open to learning. You need to spend time understanding the challenges and barriers faced and building relationships that...... Read More

The Experimental Leader with Melanie Parish       We recognize that growth requires moving away from the status quo. Yet, how do you know what to change? Melanie Parish suggests it’s OK to experiment and collect data to decide what to do next. Melanie is the author of The Experimental Leader: Be a New Kind of Boss to Cultivate an Organization of Innovators. She joins Kevin to discuss this mindset shift to be experimental in problem-solving. When we can test assumptions and analyze the results, we can decide how to handle challenges and opportunities within our organizations and teams. We...... Read More

How To Make Bad Leadership Good with Melanie Parish   On Today’s episode, Billy got the chance to speak with Melanie Parish about the struggles new leaders have and how they can overcome them. She is an author, public speaker, host of The Experimental Leader Podcast, founder of Experimental Leader Academy, and Master Certified Coach. An expert in problem-solving, constraints management, operations, strategic hiring, and brand development. Melanie has consulted and coached organizations ranging from a Fortune 50 company to IT start-ups. Her individual clients include those in FAANG and other top global IT companies. As an author, educator, and...... Read More

Author of “The Experimental Leader” Melanie is a speaker, consultant, workshop leader, author, and Master Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, in which she received the Prism Award. Melanie has consulted and operated within organizations ranging from a Fortune 50 company to IT start-ups within their first round of funding. Many of Melanie’s innovations surrounding business outline science and a need for experimentation and data collection. Melanie says, “When we have a status quo that we want to change, we start to try things and we start to experiment. I’ve noticed in organizations that what happens traditionally with people’s...... Read More

Why Accepting Your Podcast As A Live Experiment Is Success Making Advice From Melanie Parish Host Of The Experimental Leader Podcast     Melanie, thanks so much for joining me. I’m excited to talk experimentation in our show because you are the experimental leader. What made you start a podcast? What made you take on this experiment? I’m so excited to be here with you, Tracy. I like most experimenters had a problem and I had to solve that problem. I had my book The Experimental Leader came out April 7th, 2020. My big marketing strategy was I was approved to be...... Read More

How To Be More Experimental In Your Career with Melanie Parish     In this episode of Quit Bleeping Around®, awesome super achiever, author, and self-improvement guru Christina Eanes interviews Melanie Parish. Melanie, author of The Experimental Leader, is a public speaker, consultant, workshop leader, and Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation. In this episode, Melanie provides you with a way to look at your career (and life) as an experiment, which is incredibly freeing.   You can also access the podcast episode at: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-27eur-1047b5e?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share... Read More

Melanie Parish: how to approach situations with a scientist’s mindset     About Melanie Parish Melanie Parish is a consultant, workshop leader, facilitator, and Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, from whom she received the Prism Award. An expert in problem-solving, operations, strategic hiring, and brand development, Melanie has consulted and coached organizations ranging from a Fortune 50 company to IT start-ups. Her individual clients include those in FAANG and other top global IT companies. As an author, educator, and creator of the Experimental Leader program, Parish shows people new ways of thinking about their leadership, informed by her...... Read More

DISCOVER YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE WITH MELANIE PARISH     WHAT MAKES A GOOD LEADER? Melanie advocates a neutral leadership style, where you don’t react to what’s happening around you. It’s not that you shouldn’t have standards for your business and team. It’s that you stay neutral so that when your team brings you decisions that need made, you’re able to take things in, ponder them, ask questions, and send it back to your team. By approaching leadership in this way, you’re helping people move tasks forward vs. being a micromanager.   LEADERS ARE WILLING TO EXPERIMENT A lot of people...... Read More

Leaning into Experimentation as a Leader with Melanie Parish   What is an Experimental Leader? Melanie wrote her book Experimental Leader after grappling with the idea of leadership for quite some time. “After working with clients, I wanted them to have a step-by-step guide for experimentation in their leadership.” Melanie’s viewpoint is to develop an experimental mindset because every idea we implement is a learning process. With this process, a leader doesn’t have to live and die by their ideas. Experimental Leadership as an Open Work Culture  “This becomes a culture of continual improvement, supports innovation, and it allows people...... Read More