Melanie is the real deal. Mel has lived experience of love, loss, grief and has learnt how to get back up with every knock down life has thrown at her. She spent her ‘Decade of Disaster’ swallowing and buffering her grief and then made the conscious decision to stand up and tell her story ‘Let’s Rethink Our Approach to Grief’ at TEDx Canberra 2017. What that moment created was a renewed determination to reclaim her life and deliver on her true purpose.

Collective Wisdom is the formulation of decades of learning, work and reflection coming together to serve and support women. Mel holds a Bachelor of Youth Work, has undertaken a Certificate IV in Life Coaching specialising in mental health and wellbeing and managing personal transitions including grief and loss.

She has worked with people from all walks of life for the last 25 years and has done so with respect, honesty, and compassion. What she’s learnt is that the human experience is universal. That it doesn’t matter how we live our lives; we are all impacted by the full range of human emotions. When Mel works with women, she hears countless versions of the same story involving self-doubt, a lack of confidence and personal exhaustion, she knows it too and has created Collective Wisdom Coaching and Consulting to help herself as much as she helps others find their true alignment.

Mel’s decision to pursue a career working with people, makes the world a better place. Mel gets that life throws us curveballs and she recognises the importance of nurturing emotions, self-discovery and never forgetting to do what you love.