Catalyst. Creator. Coach.

Melisa grew up on a ropes course. A real one. Her father was the founder of Project Adventure and since she was merely a teenager, she has been surrounded by and immersed in the world of experiential education. Early in her career, she delivered wilderness training and provided outdoor education. She was on athletic teams where she literally had to get everyone on the team rowing in the same direction. That’s not a metaphor. She has lived experience being part of a team who has to find the rhythm, harness the synergy, and cultivate the teamwork to get to the finish line.

She leveraged her early experiences in the outdoors to build a thriving business focused on enhancing the collective power of leadership teams. Though the nature of her work has changed over the years, the importance of getting a team to work together has not. She has worked with major corporations, educational institutions, non-profits, employee-owned businesses, and government agencies to build leadership teams and drive organizational success.

Over three decades, she has honed her craft and refined her approach to incorporate new research, techniques, and technology. But the work of leadership is in her DNA. Everywhere she goes, she sees human behavior, systems, organizational life, and leaders. Whether living in Australia, traveling to remote islands, hiking in Norway, sailing in Greece, or walking the streets of Boston, she sees the commonalities of humans and the human experience. And the lens through which she sees the world supports her belief that at our core, it is possible for people to connect and grow and be better, both individually and as a team.

And she has devoted her life to helping humans do just that: Grow.