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  • Grant making
  • Project and program management
  • Organisational reviews
  • Community engagement
  • Workforce & operational systems
  • Strategic, workforce and business plannings
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • Contemporary organisational frameworks
  • Leadership development
  • Learning program design and delivery
  • Management & career coaching

Mel Caldwell

Senior Consultant High Performance

(MA Enterprise Management, Dip, Coaching and Mentoring, FIML, CMgr)

Melanie Caldwell is a highly experienced and successful leadership and management professional. Skilled in leading organisational performance, community engagement and customer experience projects for the state government, higher-education, housing, grant making and philanthropic sectors. Experienced in creating project and program strategies to streamline businesses and develop key partnerships by driving transformational change to workforce and operational systems, processes and procedures. Trusted within executive and senior leadership teams to enhance stakeholder relationships and improve customer connections by effectively translating vision into actionable and innovative initiatives.

Melanie is an energetic leader who excels in leading, coaching and mentoring cross-functional teams by cultivating an open, honest and collaborative culture to achieve high performance and positive outcomes. She believes in the potential of every individual within the team to make a positive difference and affect change for the betterment of an organisation and that everything is possible with clarity of purpose and organisational alignment.

Melanie has substantial experience in project, program and operations management and is skilled in cultivating and nurturing stakeholder relationships and facilitating authentic knowledge sharing. She has well-developed communication skills and operates in a highly collaborative skill set to enhance client relationships and solutions implementation.

Melanie is a Fellow of the Institute of Management and Leadership, Australia & New Zealand and Chartered Management Institute, UK and is a Chartered Manager. She holds qualifications in management, coaching and mentoring.

PREVIOUS CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS

Melanie has successfully delivered consulting assignments for state government which included design and implementation of user experience materials, the development of contemporary organisational frameworks, organisational structure design and process and management system improvement.

Melanie has extensive experience as an enterprise leader, having led high-performing teams for most of her career. Particularly skilled in mobilising new and established teams to achieve high performance.

Other consulting projects have included Act systems, procedures and IT development for grant making to community foundations in the UK.

PREVIOUS ROLES

Melanie has previously held leadership roles in State Government, Housing, Higher Education and Grant Making and Philanthropy.