Melanie Keveles, MA, CPCC is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and Certified Best Year Yet® Coach. Prior to starting her coaching practice in 1998, Melanie has been a career and outplacement consultant, trainer and writer for more than 20 years. She has achieved many of her life-long dreams including living in Europe nearly five years, running her own business, co-authoring a book (Fired For Success: Turning Losing Your Job into the Opportunity of a Lifetime!) and having her own radio show.

Melanie has appeared as a guest on The Sally Jessey Raphael Show (when she had her show in St. Louis and focused on less racy topics), ), New Dimensions Radio New Dimensions Radio, Conversations with Jean Feraca Conversations with Jean Feraca and numerous other radio and television programs in the Midwest. Her work has also been cited in Teamworks! by Barbara Sher and Annie Gottlieb, McCall's Magazine, and also on the front page of The New York Times (what her husband, who hales from the Bronx, NY likes to call his "hometown newspaper").

Melanie specializes in coaching clients worldwide who want to optimize their career satisfaction, pursue entrepreneurial ventures, reinvent themselves and have their Best Year Yet®. An avowed "renaissance soul," Melanie has been challenged by having too many creative interests and pursuing an abundance of life long learning. She sensitively helps others with this tendency focus and experience satisfaction.

Melanie weaves her backround and training throughout her work, designing a unique course of action with each client. With her outplacement background and stints creating content for Internet and corporate Intranet sites such as Alta Vista Careers and the Talent Alliance, she has been exposed to a wide range of careers and work environments.

In addition to her grounding in coach training, leadership training and certification through The Coaches Training Institute, (CTI) Melanie has been through training with Byron Katie and uses her "Work" when appropriate with clients challenged by limited beliefs and with difficult relationships.

Melanie is on the faculty of CTI as a Certification Pod Leader and a Business Development Program Leader. She collaborates with Coaching Toys founder, Marcy Nelson-Garrison on the Quick Apprenticeship Series for New Product Entrepreneurs©.

Additional affiliations and training include:

Masters in Education and English, trained by Dr. Hilda Lee Dail in Creativity and Career methods, Certified Best Year Yet® Coach, the ReFirement® Group, Coachville founding member, Schools of Coachville, International Coach Federation (ICF) member, 247coaching.com member, Minnesota Coaches Association member, Lake Superior Coaches Association founding member, CoachLink and The Coach Connection Coach.