Melanie Richens

Her first career was as a lawyer, becoming a partner in a top 100 law firm and latterly Director of People. She is now following her passion for developing people enabling them to perform at their peak and removing barriers to success through a combination of coaching and training.

Melanie has coached and trained individuals at all levels to improve personal performance, to aid career progression and unlock personal potential enabling people to achieve their maximum capabilities. Melanie works collaboratively in partnership with clients to set and achieve goals, solve problems and foster learning and development.

She is equally at home working with individuals or organisations; when working with organisations she can bring her first-hand experience to bear of working at board level designing and implementing strategy and delivering cultural change.

Melanie is passionate about encouraging business success through engaging and developing people in order to ensure that individual performance is aligned with the strategy of the business leading to a win-win situation for both employers and employees. Melanie has collaborated extensively with a number of training organisations and coaches to design, develop and deliver leadership and management training programmes. These programmes have included:

• People & Performance Management
• Leadership
• Coaching skills
• Effective goal setting
• Effective appraisals
• Time Management
• Handling difficult people and conflict resolution
• Communication skills
• Building relationships with clients and colleagues

Melanie is currently chair of the Swindon Mindful Employers’ Network which is an organisation for employers aimed at increasing awareness of mental health issues in the workplace.

• ANLP (Professional Member)
• Association for Coaching
• British Institute of Hypnotherapy