Hi, I'm Melissa Busse.
I'm a Professional Certified Leadership Coach and facilitator.
Great leaders get coached and coach.
Coaching is no longer a “nice to have” leadership skill. It’s becoming a core leadership competency for organizations that want to build high trust, inclusive, and engaged workplaces.
The HR leaders and organizations I work with know that strong technical skills alone don’t create strong leaders. Leadership readiness, employee engagement, retention, and workplace culture all depend on how leaders develop and empower their people.
But many leaders were taught to lead by fixing, directing, and carrying everything themselves.
So they become the bottleneck.
They take on too much, spend their days solving problems for everyone else, and unintentionally limit the growth and confidence of their teams. There’s a real weight to leadership, and most people were never taught that coaching skills are one of the keys to leading more effectively.
That’s where I come in.
As a Professional Certified Coach working with private clients and as a Facilitator with Essential Impact, I help leaders and organizations become more grounded in leadership, bringing coaching into the way they lead, communicate, and develop people.
I work both with organizations looking to build stronger coaching cultures and with individual leaders who want to grow their leadership capacity, navigate complexity more effectively, and lead with greater confidence and impact.
Through leadership coaching, facilitation, and coaching culture development, I help organizations:
• Develop leadership-ready teams
• Build stronger trust and engagement
• Empower employees to think and lead more independently
• Create workplaces people want to stay in
I’ve had the privilege of working alongside organizations recognized among the Best Places to Work in Canada, where leadership, trust, and people development are treated as strategic priorities, not afterthoughts.
One leader I worked with had spent years taking prestigious leadership and management training programs, yet still felt like something was missing. After learning how to bring coaching skills into his leadership approach, he realized this was the key to developing leaders who could eventually surpass him. Less fixing. More ownership. Stronger leaders throughout the organization.
That’s the kind of leadership development that creates lasting impact.
If you’re exploring how to strengthen leadership readiness, build a coaching culture, or grow as a leader yourself, send me a DM. Or book a coffee chat here: https://calendly.com/melissa-busse/30min-1
My Services.
1:1 Coaching
Team Coaching
Individual coaching sessions aim to spur on professional and personal effectiveness. It provides a space of trust for anyone who desired to grow and develop themselves, to take a step back for reflection to put things into perspective, become aware of behaviour patterns, define and align values and goals, discover solutions to challenges, and to plan and launch themselves to achieve results behind what was imaginable.
Team coaching actively engages team members to connect, to understand each other and successfully work together. As team coach, I provide processes and tools for facilitating the team's work together, identify patterns and support development of new strategies to overcome obstacles, and monitor teams progress and accountability for best results.
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effective and efficient decision making
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navigate change (situation, promotion, new job)
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leadership development
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work/life balance
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move past "stuck"/plateauing
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leading team/organization effectively
Interested in 1 on 1 coaching - book a coffee chat to explore fit and options here
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clear definition of teams purpose and guidelines for a strong working relationships to achieve required outcomes
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engaging innovation, creativity, and relationship dynamics for more productive conflict and stronger project results
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teams to be more nimble in responding to change resulting in solid metrics
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articulate a clear team "manifesto"(ie. goals, vision, values)
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expanded development and capacity of team to enrich greater organization
Interested in team coaching - book a coffee chat to explore fit and options here
Coaching Training/
Leadership Development
If you are looking to level up your leadership skills, non-directive coaching is an effective tool to have in your tool belt. If you are looking to change and sustain beliefs, thinking, attitudes, and behaviours, research is showing that non-directive coaching is one of the most effective ways. In a fast changing world with knowledge advancing so quickly, coaching enables and rewards the capacity to change.
Mentor Coaching
For coaches applying for an ICF designation, ACC designation renewal, or if you simply want to level up your coaching skills, mentor coaching is a great way to increase your capacity in coaching. Mentor coaching consists of coaching and feedback in a collaborative and appreciative dialogue to support coaching skill development.
Interested in mentor coaching - book a coffee chat to explore fit and options here
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lunch and learns
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half or full day workshops
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individual or teams
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online delivery available
Interested in leadership development - book a coffee chat to explore fit and options here
A Snapshot of Organizational Experience
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Edison