What people
are saying
Partners/Customers
“I’ve had the opportunity to work with Melissa in several capacities over the years, and I have the upmost respect for her both as a person and as a consummate organizational development professional. She knows her stuff—she is always thinking ahead and learning, with an eye towards emerging trends and novel applications of core leadership principles. I trust Melissa to always provide sound advice, I highly value her opinion and perspective—she’s not afraid to share a differing viewpoint and often causes me to reconsider my own thinking. She never loses sight of the big picture and knows how to guide teams effectively to accomplish the overall goal. She is also very practical in her approach and knows at the end of the day, getting results is what matters. As a coach, she brings out the best in others and helps them succeed by recognizing and realizing their potential."
Paul Terry, Leadership &Career Development Coach and Consultant, Paul Terry Consulting Group
"I have been fortunate enough to have worked directly for Melissa for several years in a high stress environment. During that time, she was the Senior Leader that everyone would go to for guidance and moral support to help us deal with the challenges we were confronted with. Her knowledge, compassion and human instinct to do the right thing has made her one of the most amazing leaders, mentor and most importantly a lifelong friend. She challenges you in every aspect to make you the best person and leader you can be. I highly recommend Melissa to any business that uses her skillset to develop their employees, not to only be better employees, but better human beings."
Casey Campbell, Human Resources Manager,
City of North Kansas City
“Melissa designed and delivered programming for us for the first time and in a virtual setting no less. Throughout the design process, Melissa checked and asked for feedback to insure that her work met our requirements and expectations.
She is a great facilitator as she incorporated tools like polling and chat function in Zoom to engage and interact with participants. Moreover, she has amazing patience with participants giving them enough “silence or pause” to process information and respond to questions which is more challenging to do when facilitating virtually. Her overall openness to feedback and willingness to incorporate our “customer voice” certainly made it easy and a pleasure to partner and work with. I highly recommend Melissa.“
Emiko Baldwin, Sr. Manager,
Leadership Development Program, Vanderbilt University
“As the Chief Human Resources Officer at Supply Source Enterprises, I was tasked with creating and implementing a Performance Management program for the organization. As a part of the work, my team and I had to create several manager training sessions to teach our leaders how to use the performance management process correctly. I hired Melissa Stack at Beacon Hill Training to create the performance management leadership training for my organization. It was a true joy to work with Melissa. She spent a couple of sessions meeting with me and my team to get a full understanding of our training needs, and checked in multiple times during the process to make sure that she was on track. Not only was the process managed wonderfully, on-budget and delivered on time, but the quality of the customized training was excellent. Melissa facilitated a session with our executive team, including the CEO, and the feedback was outstanding. Finally, Melissa also took the time to work directly with my team to train them on how to effectively facilitate the learning sessions. Melissa’s ability to quickly understand our business and our leadership needs is second to none."
Sharling Grummon, Chief Human Resources Officer
“As the leader of our enterprise leadership development activities, part of my responsibility is discovering, evaluating, and partnering with external coaches to support our business. In this way, I have had the privilege of working with Melissa Stack for several years. What sets Melissa apart is a combination of her strong relationship building, thoughtful insight, in her ability to translate strategic intent into tactical actions and recommendations. She is easy to work with and her numerous coaching clients here comment on her ability to understand them as a person and challenge them towards success. I would highly recommend leveraging Melissa for her expertise in leadership development, organizational development, and coaching – we certainly will continue to do so."
Kris Nunn, Director of Learning Development, Asurion
Career Coaching
“I worked with Melissa on two separate occasions over the last 5 years. Both times she helped me develop a clear action plan, set concrete goals, discover my unique (attributable) strengths and determine what I wanted out of the next phase of my career/life. Melissa is a true pleasure to work with. She is extremely knowledgeable, is always prepared and ensures each engagement is highly productive. I found tremendous value in her approach and she really enabled me to get the most out of our sessions. Melissa is passionate and kind and I really enjoy talking to her. She clearly loves the work she does and brings nothing but professionalism to her craft. I can only say positive things about Melissa and personally recommend her.”
SVP, Head of Media
Multinational Transportation Company
“After unexpectedly finding myself in another job transition, I realized I had reached the limits of what I could learn on my own about the job search process. I needed professional guidance to take the next step in my career. While I spoke with several coaches, very quickly into my first conversation with Melissa I knew she was the right fit for me. Once we started working together, she helped me have confidence in my purpose and value. She worked with me to create plans that were adapted to my personality and working style. She showed me when to ignore certain rules and helped me get past barriers I had created for myself. More importantly, she challenged me at the end of every coaching session with what I was taking away and what I was going to work on. She continued checking in after our coaching sessions and showed that she was truly invested in my success. I wholeheartedly recommend Melissa to anyone seeking to advance their career or navigate professional transitions. Her expertise, personalized approach, and genuine commitment to her clients's success make her an invaluable partner in achieving your career goals.“
Anthony G., Career Transition Coachee
“I had the privilege of working with Melissa Stack at Asurion several years ago. During that time, Melissa led the Organizational and Development division, and I learned an immense amount under her guidance. After leaving Asurion, she started her own career coaching business. When I was laid off in September of last year, Melissa was one of the first people to reach out to me. I immediately enlisted her career coaching services, as I was feeling low and unsure of my potential. Melissa provided me with invaluable, real-time tips and coaching that helped me recognize and understand my full potential. She guided me through my career search and supported me throughout the interview process. After securing a job in January, I continued to utilize her services to navigate my first few months in the new role, which was not only a job change but also an industry change. Melissa helped build my confidence as a leader and equipped me with the tools to venture out on my own. I highly recommend Melissa Stack's career coaching services. Speaking with her during and after my job search was consistently the highlight of my week. Her expertise, support, and encouragement made a significant difference in my professional journey.“
Tannia G—HR Program Director, Healthcare company
Individual Coaching
"Melissa is my first professional coach in my career spanning 21 years. After coaching with her for over 8 months, I can now proudly say that Melissa had a mighty impact and a 180 degree shift on my professional/personal attitude and general perspective. The way she drives the coaching sessions are inspirational as she can clearly articulate your weakness and strengths and then drive the conversations to achieve the desired result, in this case ‘a clear mind”. I always walk away from her sessions with a crystal clear mind and concrete objectives. I now have clear personal and professional goals set that defines me as next generation leader and a better human. Her coaching sessions are always inspiring, reliving, insightful and refreshing as she carries tons of experience coming across various mentees. The best part of these sessions were that you end up taking your own decisions after she guides you with a clear path. I have come to regard Melissa as an invaluable friend and individual. Thank You Melissa.“
Sr. Director, Asurion APAC Technology
“I had the pleasure of working with Melissa for a 4-month coaching engagement. Melissa was great about setting the tone and structure for the engagement and to ensure we had clear goals for the time we spent together. She was quick to add value by asking insightful questions and helping me to think through options and alternatives to current methods of thinking. I found Melissa’s style to be friendly, welcoming of discussions and supportive of new ideas. She was a valuable resource to me and I highly recommend her for future coaching engagements."
Sr. Director, Human Resources
Global Technology Company
“During a critical point in my career, due to a change in longstanding leadership, I was offered executive coaching by new leadership. This experience turned out to be the most beneficial resource provided to me by my employer of 20 years. From my first meeting with Melissa, she has had the ability to create a comfortable environment while challenging my thought processes to assist me in reaching my goals and creating my brand. Her expertise in professional feedback allowed me to reflect on current behaviors and identify ways of improvement. In each meeting, she kept me focused on my goals while helping me establish a personal toolkit to continue my progress even after our coaching ended. Melissa supported me in gaining clarity while increasing my confidence as a leader, and a renewed sense of purpose as I further my career.“
Hallie B, Director of Nursing, HCA
“After being promoted to Head of Finance, I partnered with Melissa for 12 months of coaching to support my transition. Like most new roles, I was thrown in the deep end, and while I had so many plans and ideas of what I wanted to do in my new role, I never felt I had the space to work through those thoughts. Working with Mel gave me that safe space to pull apart my thoughts and better understand what was working well and what I wanted to change as a leader. She would balance the line of challenging my thinking while also showing support for new ideas in a way that always led me to better outcomes. Our sessions could sometimes be completely unpredictable as I would throw up different real time challenges that I was confronting. Melissa's capability to pivot on the run, throw out the agenda she thought we were going to go through and come with me on a new journey was what I valued most. All the while helping me cut through the complexity and chaos as we went. She has been an invaluable resource and friend for me and has played a big part in making me a better leader.“
Anthony D., Head of Finance, Australia
“Through over two years of work with Melissa as my coach, it is incredible to think back on where I started to where I am today. My mindset, self-talk habits, self-realizations and outlook on life and work has been wholly transformed. Through each session, as Melissa got to know me better and better, her active listening and situational awareness kept us moving along through my journey. What was perhaps most surprising and satisfying throughout our coaching work was how much it was a collaborative combined effort. I never felt like Melissa was trying to install rigid, one-size-fits-all systems or push me in a way that didn't feel like an organic, logical approach. If you have questions about your career or feel stuck with some personal goals, I'd recommend you give Melissa a call.
Ben, Coachee—Individual Coaching