A B O U T • M E L J E N N E R
I help people and organisations move through high-risk change.
I have spent the last 25 years working with people & organisations around the world on strategy, business growth, product & service design and complex workforce change.
Across financial services, government, technology and entrepreneurship, I kept encountering the same problem:
Organisations know how to design change strategies and new systems, but people still have to find the confidence, capability and emotional ability to change with them.
Or change doesn’t work.
So I changed my work purpose, to work on this growing problem for the workforce and individuals.
H O W I W O R K B E S T
I work with individuals and teams on human adaptation.
I combine being Founder of Actvo with being a consultant & fractional executive - helping companies with AI transformation, workforce mobility, human change, self-directed skill building, personal career strategies, and leadership capability building. I’m also an author, speaker and founder.
My values have been shaped by my broad lived experience.
I am courageous, creative, caring, empathic, innovative and not afraid to speak ‘truth to power’.
I enjoy working with people who are too.
Former Leader & Senior Executive at multiple F500 corporations
Trained at Columbia University in Leadership
Trained at Stanford d.school in Design Thinking
Transformation delivery experience across Financial Services, Government and Technology
International Speaker and Facilitator
Author of Emotional Leadership
Founder of Start Now & Career to Love
Founder of Actvo
M Y B E L I E F S
People are the work.
“I help people and organisations make sense of what is changing, how to build hope, pathways and have agency to navigate a better way forward”.
~ Mel Jenner
Whatever organisation you work for or own - you are its simplest, in an ecosystem that’s run by people.
Without people there is no business, and there is no work. And people are fuelled by emotions. They take work to grow and keep.
Change is a major disruptor of loyalty and productivity at work - human emotions are spiked and as leaders it elevates the need to manage our own emotional response, and lead others through the change.
Navigating this is one of the greatest challenges we all face in our work-life. And there has never been a time when work has been changing so much.
This is my superpower - helping others through difficult change : restructuring, growth, systems change, workforce redesign and personal uncertainty.
I have worked inside global organisations, built ventures from the ground up, reported to boards, designed new operating models and supported leaders making decisions with no easy answer.
The constant has always been the same.
Those who win at change, change themselves first.
T H E S T O R Y O F T H E B E E
Connecting identity, ideas, productivity and possibility.
Melissa means honeybee.
Bees pollinate. They connect. They make growth possible by transferring something valuable from one place to another.
That is how I see my role: connecting people, their identity & bold ideas, to value creation, productivity and new possibility - so that change can become normalised and a source of human innovation.
If you are navigating a significant change, lets talk.
No obligation. No sales pitches. Just a way to share ideas and see if working together will add value to both of us.