CEO of Your Life
Corporate and Leadership Coaching

Heart + Strategy Leadership for a Changing World

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Strong leadership bridges the gap between what matters to people and what matters to the business. When leaders align their strengths and values with organizational goals, performance accelerates, and cultures transform.

We help leaders build that bridge through a heart+strategy approach – a blend of human-centered leadership and seasoned business insight that fuels trust, resilience, and innovation. Because when people feel seen, supported, and empowered, they elevate themselves and everyone around them.

What is Corporate and Leadership Coaching?

Corporate and leadership coaching strengthens your leadership to strengthen your organization.

It equips executives and emerging leaders with the relationship skills, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness to:

  • Draw out the best in others
  • Build strong, respectful, collaborative relationships
  • Coach their teams to grow, stretch, and innovate
  • Navigate complex transitions with confidence
  • Strengthen engagement and performance at all levels

Leadership today is coaching. The command-and-control approach is an outdated model that stifles creativity and limits progress.

When leaders take full ownership of who they are, and learn to coach rather than command, they create the ideal conditions for people to grow, and organizations to grow with them.

Heart + strategy leadership is a coaching approach. It begins when we drop our masks, lead as our fully human selves, and commit to guiding with clarity, courage, and compassion.

❤️‍🔥 Why Heart + Strategy Leadership Works

We know that:.

  • When leaders lead with heart, engagement rises, performance strengthens, and people feel valued in their work. 
  • Corporations operate with clear targets and bottom-line goals that must be prioritized. 
  • Even the best leadership models can feel challenging when stress is high, change is constant, or old habits take over.

The solution? It isn’t choosing between the human side and the strategic side… it’s integrating both.

Heart + strategy leadership empowers organizations to operate with empathy, clarity, and accountability while driving measurable business results.

The world needs businesses that take care of people. And it needs those businesses to succeed in a highly competitive, rapidly shifting landscape. 

That’s why we do this work.

Our Process

We begin with a conversation to understand your needs, challenges, aspirations, and to ensure we’re a good fit for each other. From there, we design a tailored program aligned to your goals.

Step 1: Discovery & Alignment

Deep conversations and research-backed assessments to build a complete picture of where you’re starting from and where you want to go.

Step 2: Tailored Coaching Plan

Designing a customized blend of one-on-one coaching, leadership assessments, group sessions, stakeholder interviews, intention and goal setting, and clear benchmarks.

Step 3: Implementation & Accountability

Coaching sessions, between-session assignments, ongoing feedback, tracking, follow-ups, and realignment as needed.

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Step 4: Sustainability & Culture Integration

Embedding coaching behaviors into the organization, strengthening leadership-upon-leadership, and ensuring the impact continues long after the program ends.

As a heart-led organization ourselves, we ensure that each step of our process puts the human element first. Every leader has a story with their own strengths, challenges, blind spots, and goals. We start there, and align it with corporate strategy to create authentic, sustainable growth.

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🧩 What You’re Experiencing & How We Help

  • People & Culture

    • Conflict or behavioural issues
    • High turnover
    • Low engagement
    • Challenges with diverse personalities and communication styles
    • Difficulty motivating rising generations

  • Performance & Productivity

    • Keeping employees productive and aligned
    • Greater demands with fewer resources
    • Inefficient collaboration across teams
    • Struggle to maintain performance during change

  • Leadership Development

    • Leaders lacking confidence or courage
    • Need for coaching skills within your leadership team
    • Supporting emerging leaders to rise effectively
    • Helping teams step into ownership and accountability

  • Change & Turbulence

    • Mergers, restructuring, and major transitions
    • Guiding teams through uncertainty
    • Identifying underlying issues blocking progress
    • Knowing a shift is needed… but not knowing where to start

We Help You…

  • Strengthen communication, trust, and relationships

  • Build high-performance, collaborative teams

  • Clarify purpose, values, and the vivid vision of the business

  • Navigate transitions with confidence and inclusivity

  • Increase engagement, retention, and employee satisfaction

  • Cultivate a coaching culture of continuous development

  • Attract and develop top talent

  • Align business systems (hiring, partnerships, branding, workspace) with your future vision

  • Build confidence in decision making, increase your influence, and step into your full power as a leader

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Why Choose CEO of Your Life

Master Certified Coaching (MCC) Data-driven Results Broad experience Global capabilities A Distinct Approach

  • Master Certified Coaching (MCC)

    The gold standard in coaching, held by only 4% of coaches worldwide. Your leaders deserve the highest level of expertise.

  • Data-driven Results

    We use research-backed assessment tools such as Hogan and TALENTx7 to establish baselines, measure progress, and demonstrate tangible ROI.

  • Broad experience

    We’ve worked with leaders from SMBs to Fortune 500 and 100 corporations, as well as global family-run enterprises navigating transitions.

  • Global capabilities

    In-person, virtual, and hybrid coaching available anywhere in the world.

  • A Distinct Approach

    Our heart + strategy approach blends humanity with business performance in a way that is rare in the industry, and ideal for organizations who want people to thrive and the business to excel.

We are all about working together to strengthen your business by strengthening the people within it.

💗 Solve Issues at the Core

Almost every leadership challenge traces back to one thing: fear.

Fear shows up quietly and subtly when people:

  • Avoid taking risks
  • Hesitate to speak up
  • Hold back ideas
  • Shift blame
  • Avoid asking for help
  • Choose the status quo over growth

Most leaders don’t intend to lead from fear. It simply becomes familiar. An unconscious status quo.

What Is Fear-Based Leadership?

Fear-based leadership happens when leaders avoid tough conversations, keep emotions hidden, or smooth things over instead of going deeper. When a leader hides, the people they lead learn to hide too.

Lead With Heart

Heart + strategy leadership gives you the courage and clarity to lead authentically — and to create the space for others to do the same. The impact creates a ripple effect across your entire organization.

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🌍 Who We Serve

We partner with executives, senior leaders, and organizational leadership teams in organizations and family enterprises across the globe.

We specialize in guiding clients through:

  • Transitions
  • Turbulent times
  • Cultural shifts
  • Leadership redevelopment
  • Emerging generational needs
  • Transformations where the “old way” is no longer working

Change is where we thrive, and where we help you thrive too.

📈 Coaching By the Numbers*

  • Companies who invest in coaching report an average ROI of 7x their investment 
  • 80% of people receiving coaching report increased self-confidence 
  • 95% say coaching led them to take meaningful action 
  • Over 70% experience improved performance, relationships, and communication skills 

Companies with strong coaching cultures see 27% year-over-year revenue growth

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80% of people receiving coaching report increased self-confidence
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95% say coaching led them to take meaningful action
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Over 70% experience improved performance, relationships, and communication skills
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“Melissa’s HR, coaching, and leadership skills — combined with her positivity — were invaluable assets to our company. She hired and trained a strong team, equipped our employees with tools to bring out the best in themselves at work, and helped us co-create an engaging, people-centered culture.

She also strengthened relationships and communication across the organization. You can have the best product or service in the world, but if you do not have a strong team behind it, you are not going anywhere. Melissa helped us build that strength.”

“Melissa was invited to Medtronic as a motivational speaker, where she captivated the audience with her dynamic presentation style and her ability to both engage and influence a room. Her workshop was thoughtfully designed and supported by a clear, compelling presentation — the combination made working with Melissa impactful, educational, and most importantly, fun.

As a follow-up, Melissa (a certified Co-Active Coach) also worked one-on-one with employees to ensure they were confident in applying and sustaining the tools she introduced. The continuity between her keynote and the individual coaching created real, lasting change.”

“Melissa, I want to sincerely thank you for your time, your expertise, and the depth of insight you brought to our coaching work together. The wisdom you shared has been truly invaluable. I now lead with greater confidence, clarity, and perspective as a direct result of our work. This has been transformative for both my leadership and my life. I remain deeply grateful for your guidance and the tools you continue to share.”

“I want to thank you for your incredible support this year. Your wisdom and practical tools helped me grow into a more balanced, grounded leader with a stronger perspective. I see this as a lifelong journey, and the foundation you helped me build will stay with me. Thank you for the important work you do — by helping people grow, you truly are making the world better, one person at a time.”

“I wanted to personally thank you for the coaching over the past year and to share the impact it has had on my career and my life. I was recently promoted into a completely different leadership role. I am both excited and stretched in the best possible way. The work we did around values, my leadership statement, and my vision continues to guide me every day. It was important for me to let you know that your coaching directly contributed to my success. I am truly grateful.”

We are a Montreal-based coaching firm serving clients around the world via in-person, virtual, and hybrid options.

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 Yes. The first call is simply to explore your needs and determine if we’re the right fit. Ready to set up a first call?

Pricing depends on whether you’re seeking individual, group, or organization-wide coaching, whether you’re integrating workshops, retreats, leadership assessments, or keynotes, the number of sessions you want per month, as well as the amount of access between sessions.

This will all be discussed and agreed upon with your coach before coaching begins.

All packages include our 4-step process, and typically include one-on-one sessions, between-session assignments, reading materials, check-ins, assessments where applicable, progress reports, and a final hand-off to support continued development.

Packages may also include tripartite meetings, observation sessions, stakeholder feedback, and/or team coaching.

The frequency, reach, and level of all package elements are also customizable and agreed upon ahead of time.

They last as long as you would like them to. We start with six months and assess your needs after that.

Our coaching programs are designed to equip you with the tools, mindset, and habits to continue your growth long after engagement ends. When the coaching ends, the self-coaching begins!

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https://instituteofcoaching.org/coaching-overview/coaching-benefits
https://entrepreneurshq.com/coaching-industry-statistics/

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CEO of Your Life has been trusted by several top organizations.

How Melissa Dawn is Inspiring Transformational Leadership

Melissa Dawn empowers executives and family business leaders to lead through change with heart—not just strategy—so they can inspire their teams, elevate their legacy, and create meaningful, lasting impact.

As a Master Certified Coach (MCC), keynote speaker, bestselling author, and master practitioner of energy medicine, Melissa blends two decades of corporate leadership with deep expertise in personal growth and business transformation. Her approach combines strategic insight with holistic, values-driven leadership—supporting clients to thrive both professionally and personally.

As one of the few coaches globally to hold the Master Certified Coach (MCC) designation—awarded to just 4% of coaches worldwide—Melissa equips leaders with the mindset, presence, and practical tools to lead from the inside out and create real, lasting transformation.

Through her transformative workshops, executive coaching, and high-impact keynotes, she has helped thousands of leaders become the CEOs of their lives—leading with authenticity, purpose, and heart.

Leading through change? The best leaders lead with heart, not just strategy.

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