In this fast-paced business world, true leadership goes beyond the workplace. It is about aligning your personal aspirations with your professional goals to craft a successful and deeply fulfilling life.
The path to becoming a truly effective leader starts with understanding yourself profoundly, which is exactly what this program offers.
What is your strategic intent for your life and work?
Having an overarching sense of purpose and clarity of your aspirations helps you to make choices and informed decisions in life and business.
Do any of the following apply to you?
- No work-life plan and a default setting for my life’s direction.
- Lack of clear outcomes and actions on how to achieve these for the next 2-5 years in my work and life.
- My daily decisions and time spent do not reflect my long-term priorities.
- Unsure about my choices and where to focus my energies to progress in the business.
- Struggling to create a more harmonious work-life integration.
- Missing out on family events due to work.
- Feeling stuck with no sense of purpose for my immediate future.
If any of the above apply - you are not alone!
The ‘Design Your BEST Life’ program supports you as a business leader in evaluating, refocusing, and reclaiming control of your work-life integration to align with your highest aspirations and core values.
It is about the business of YOU!
Do you want to:
- Be a better life partner?
- Be more involved as a parent?
- Be a more effective leader?
- Feel more in control of your life?
- Have focused plans for your retirement?
- Have more time for your health and well-being?
- Have clarity and direction for the next five years of your life?
- Live a purpose-driven life?
- Know the unique impact you want to make?
During this program, you will focus on how you want to live the rest of your life. This will guide your decision-making and underpin business improvement planning for the next few years.
Unlock your Strategic Intent, Elevate Your Leadership
Identify your Guiding Star:
Dive into the core of who you are and what you stand for. Through powerful reflection activities, uncover your personal values and life purpose – the guiding light that will shape your decision-making.
Craft your Aspirations:
Imagine the future you desire – not just in your career but in other facets of your life. You will draft your highest aspirations and define your desired impact in key life aspects.
Harness your Motivations:
Understand what drives you - collaboration, innovation, or making a difference. Tapping into your motivations will ignite renewed passion and energy in your approach.
Strategize your Work-life Harmony:
It is time to take back control of your time and energy. Assess your work-life integration and dissect your weekly priorities to optimize your effectiveness and joy.
Blueprint your Success:
Develop a comprehensive work-life plan fuelled by intention, actions, and priorities. Transform your highest aspirations into attainable steps to propel you forward in your professional and personal pursuits.
Personalized Coaching:
You won’t be alone on this transformative journey. You have the option to include a dedicated coach by your side, offering unwavering support, expert guidance, and the accountability you need to stay on track and achieve your goals.
Is it time for you to explore the possibilities for your life and craft your future uniquely?
Join us in ‘Design Your Best Life’ and embark on a journey to redefine how you lead, live, and leave your mark.
What will be the actual cost to you if your current work-life continues?
What regrets might you have?
So, why is now the perfect time for you to assess and refocus your life?
What are your motivations for assessing your work-life and taking more control of your future?
- Prioritizing your health and well-being.
- Improving the quality of your relationships.
- Reducing stress and preventing burn-out.
- Pursuing personal growth or interests.
- Greater satisfaction through improved work-life integration.
- Recharge and re-energize for greater focus and a renewed perspective.
- Greater alignment with your core values.
- Stepping back to think more strategically about the business goals.
- Better decision-making to sustain your leadership effectiveness.
- Gain more mental and emotional capacity to navigate change.
- Succession planning to ensure a smooth transition for the business.
- Foster innovation and creativity to adapt to evolving market dynamics.
Hello! I am Melanie.
I have been consulting, coaching, and developing executive leaders, managers, professionals, and business owners to improve their individual and team/business performance for over 25 years.
I have been privileged to facilitate programs and coach senior executives, managers, and change practitioners to enhance their change leadership and capability. I have worked with business leaders from many industries and government departments across New Zealand and Australia.
Supporting our work, we have a network of coaches with similar experience and a passion for helping business leaders.
After working with hundreds of leaders, I know that this program provides focus and clarity to people prepared to put in the time and energy to change their lives to achieve greater work-life satisfaction.
“Melanie is a highly experienced facilitator and coach. A visionary leader with the skills and experience to enable strategic alignment through to supporting leaders with the plan and approach to implement change effectively”
Joanne Rinaldi – Client Services Director, Prosci-ANZ.
“Melanie has supported us to grow our Change Management team and practice. She has facilitated skill development and helped us to grow our change capability. She creates connections with people, and her practical, interactive style has worked really well for our forming team, both online and in person.”
Sharon Paine, Manager Change, FMG.
“Completing a leadership course facilitated by Melanie not only helped me to improve my own leadership skills, it helped me to realise how to nurture leadership in others. Melanie’s knowledge and approach to leadership practice is inspiring, thought-provoking, and practical.”
Pat Bullen, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Auckland.
‘Design Your Best Life ‘ can help you!
As leaders, you can make a lasting positive impact on the business and the community. To do this, you should look after yourself first to bring the ‘best’ you to the workplace.
Leaders who prioritize a more balanced work-life integration set a positive example for their teams, encouraging a healthier approach to work amongst employees.
What is the ‘Design Your Best Life’ program?
A program designed for Business Leaders and Owners/Partners/Directors of established small/medium enterprises.
Process: 4 week self-paced program with the option to include three hours of executive coaching.
There are five steps for you to achieve your highest aspirations!
Step 1 – Starting Line: Where am I now?
Session 1: Current Work-Life assessment.
Session 2: Reflect on your current work-life satisfaction.
Session 3: Assess your time, priorities, and energy.
Step 2 – Preparation: Being more self-aware.
Session 4: Identify your personal values and life purpose.
Step 3 - Setting the Compass: What are my aspirations?
Session 5: Define your aspirations & impact.
Step 4 - Mapping the Course: My Work-life Plan.
Session 6: Write your work-life integration plan.
Coaching call #1 (included in the coaching option)
Step 5 - Course Correction and Celebration.
Session 7: Review your Work-Life plan progress.
Coaching call #2 (included in the coaching option)
Coaching call #3 - One month later to support the implementation of your work-life plan (included in the coaching option)
- At the end of this program, you will have clarified your highest aspirations for the next five years to ‘Design your BEST life.’
- You will have a documented work-life integration plan to guide your focus and actions for the next 12-18 months.
Our Service Agreement: Here is what you get with the program:
DESIGN YOUR BEST LIFE
5 Steps to Achieve Your Highest Aspirations - as outlined above.
The Design Your Best Life program supports you as a Business Leader to achieve your highest aspirations and live up to your personal values in your life and your work.
Your investment in the Design Your Best Life program includes:
Access to the secure online program, including seven instructional videos so that you can complete the program at your own pace over the 4 weeks.
You will have access to the online program for 12 months from the date of purchase.
Associated practical downloadable resources and templates are designed to apply alongside the instructional videos in your own time. These resources focus on your strategic intent and enhance your self-awareness and personal leadership confidence.
Please respect our intellectual property. The downloadable workbook and resources are for your use only. These are NOT to be shared.
If you have purchased the option of three individual coaching calls for sixty minutes, these will take place online at mutually agreed times with your Executive Coach. These coaching sessions should be completed within six months of commencement of the program.
Promise:
During this program, you will clarify your strategic intent in how you want to live your life and the impact you want to make on the business and the community.
Investment:
Payment for this program, including 3 x 1hour coaching sessions, is USD$997
Payment for this program, without coaching, is USD$197
(This includes 15% Goods & Services Tax for New Zealand Participants)
“This program fast-tracked me to my goals by drawing from me a framework for my future, providing action steps, and making me accountable for achieving my goals”.
A.M - Lawyer/Financial Educator
Is the ‘Design Your BEST Life’ program suitable for me?
If you are a business owner or leader/manager serious about significantly impacting your personal life, the business, and the community, completing this program will be a game-changer!
However, this program is not for everyone!
Please rate yourself on the following two questions:
Scoring: Add your scores and rate out of 20
- A score less than 12/20 - you probably wouldn’t benefit from our program.
- A score between 12 to 20 – you could benefit from your participation in the program - ‘Design your BEST Life’
What will it take for me to succeed in this program?
There are three things you will need in order to succeed in this program:
- Courage:
To step forward and reflect on where you are and where you would like to be.
- Commitment:
To think, behave, and work differently.
- Capacity:
To make the time to reflect, learn, and refocus your life aspects for a desired future.
“You focused my thinking on the specifics that needed change and coached me through a structured approach to resolving my concerns. The input level has been appropriate to the time I had available given a usually frenetic work schedule and a busy personnel situation, too. As a result of this process, I am now far more aware of where my life issues need addressing the most and how I can progress professionally to get where I want to go."
S.C – Engagement & Communications Consultant
