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Melissa Majors

Melissa Majors has spent 25+ years of her career optimizing the business impact of education, innovation, inclusion, and leadership. She started Melissa Majors Consulting to drive better strategic decision-making in these areas and works with organizations across the country to effectively measure their inclusion and diversity performance. She has extensive experience at Meeting Professionals International, Ellucian, and other organizations in improving profitability, boosting organizational performance, and optimizing inclusion strategies. 

 

A Snapshot of Melissa

  • 25+ years of experience earning double-digit growth for companies including Nationwide Insurance, Wells Fargo, HD Vest Financial Services, Ellucian, and Meeting Professionals International.

  • Author of The 7 Simple Habits of Inclusive Leaders, a groundbreaking book on how great leaders enjoy superior team performance and drive much higher profitability by incorporating inclusive practices. Her new book Help Them Thrive: Leadership Coaching for Humans Leading Humans is like having a leadership coach in the palm of your hands.

  • Melissa is a successful entrepreneur who has founded Melissa Majors Consulting, Community Keynotes®, and pioneered in’klooded® an inclusive strategic planning methodology an inclusive process that draws out game-changing ideas for any organization.

  • Earned an advanced education certificate in strategy and innovation from Harvard University and a BS in Business Management from American Intercontinental University.

  • Leadership and inclusion guest lecturer at San Diego State University.

  • Has an impeccable track record of leading and diversifying high-performing teams across a variety of industries, such as education, retail, real estate, government, and healthcare to name a few.

  • Was featured in various publications including three articles in Forbes, The Meeting Planning, PCMA’s Convene, and others.

Author

Melissa is the author of The 7 Simple Habits of Inclusive Leaders. In this book, she reveals how great leaders enjoy superior team performance and drives much higher profitability by incorporating inclusive practices. Her new book Help Them Thrive: Leadership Coaching for Humans Leading Humans is like having a leadership coach in the palm of your hands.

Keynote Speaker, Consultant, and Coach

Melissa Majors is a crowd-pleasing speaker who masters brain-friendly talks that engage her audiences and spark not just inspiration but action as well. Founder of Melissa Majors Consulting, creator of in’klooded®, an inclusive strategic planning method that ensures all voices get heard, and Community Keynotes an inclusive process that draws out game-changing ideas ® a coaching program. She is an innovator and optimizer of education, inclusion, & leadership strategies. She has dedicated her career to maximizing the business impact associated with these areas of focus.

Entrepreneur

Her firm, Melissa Majors Consulting, has extensive experience and a proven reputation for driving better business outcomes through innovative and inclusive strategic planning. She brings deep expertise in improving profitability and innovation, boosting team and organizational performance, and optimizing inclusion strategies. 

Game-Changing Leader 

Melissa has been a force of change throughout her professional career. She has served on the board of The Propel Group DFW, as the Director of Global Education at Meeting Professionals International (MPI) where she used executive leadership to drive global education strategies and develop excellence in teams. She revamped the educational division to effectively serve 500k+ clients and strategic partners as the Director, Global Education Services at Ellucian. 

Media 

Melissa has been featured in publications such as Forbes Magazine, Smart Meetings, The Meeting Professional, NorthStar Meetings Group's Eventful Podcast, The Event DR, and on the keynote stage at events such as Meeting Professional's International's WEC, Matthews Asia, Orthofix, Blue Shield of CA, State Street, Institute for Internal Auditors, and many more.

Education

Melissa has a Bachelor of Business Administration and studied strategy and innovation at Harvard University.

Personal

Melissa lives in the DFW area with her husband and two young sons. She loves the outdoors, including freshwater fishing and camping.