Individuals

Clients are referred to Melanie for the following services:

Private Career Advisory

Melanie offers highly specialized guidance focused on topics such as career transitions, promotion preparation, and recovery from personal and career setbacks. Clients receive a tailored plan for success and a clear strategy to achieve it.

Corporate Sponsored Coaching

Melanie and the Katzman Consulting coaches work closely with Talent, HR, and Management teams to create supportive, goal-oriented programs of personal development.

Services include 360 feedback assessments, 1:1 coaching,  onsite observations of the leader in action, refinement of one’s personal brand (internally and externally), and tracking of the executive’s online presence to ensure alignment with personal goals and organizational values.

Psychotherapy Consultation.

Throughout her career, Melanie has maintained a private clinical practice where she explores the depth of emotion and possibility associated with change.

She works with individuals, couples, and families.  Her empirically grounded recommendations have immediate practical application.

In all cases, covert tensions that hinder productivity and happiness are revealed, clearing the path to shared problem-solving and increased success.

Clients

 
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Bobbi Brown
“What I loved most about working with Melanie was how I felt after each session. The tools I learned calmed me down and gave me perspective. Sometimes it’s the small adjustments that make the biggest changes.”
Bobbi Brown
“What I loved most about working with Melanie was how I felt after each session. The tools I learned calmed me down and gave me perspective. Sometimes it’s the small adjustments that make the biggest changes.”

Bobbi Brown,
Founder, Jones Road Beauty, The George, and Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.

“What I loved most about working with Melanie was how I felt after each session. The tools I learned calmed me down and gave me perspective. Sometimes it’s the small adjustments that make the biggest changes.”
Sherice Torres
“My work with Melanie has helped me to become a better executive, and a better wife, mother, and friend by teaching me to view my life holistically; to seek a bigger life in addition to a bigger job.”
Sherice Torres
“My work with Melanie has helped me to become a better executive, and a better wife, mother, and friend by teaching me to view my life holistically; to seek a bigger life in addition to a bigger job.”

Sherice Torres,
CEO & Chief Transformation Officer, Lotus Leadership Group; Former Chief Marketing Officer, Meta Financial.

“My work with Melanie has helped me to become a better executive, and a better wife, mother, and friend by teaching me to view my life holistically; to seek a bigger life in addition to a bigger job.”
Jean-Pierre Boissonnas
“For over 20 years Melanie has been a trusted advisor, facilitating complicated conversations between  people from diverse perspectives. The Katzman Consulting team helps families and their teams obtain a more global perspective about themselves and their companies, clarifying the values that drive  succession planning, impact philanthropy, and community engagement.”
Jean-Pierre Boissonnas
“For over 20 years Melanie has been a trusted advisor, facilitating complicated conversations between  people from diverse perspectives. The Katzman Consulting team helps families and their teams obtain a more global perspective about themselves and their companies, clarifying the values that drive  succession planning, impact philanthropy, and community engagement.”

Jean-Pierre Boissonnas,
Founder, Patrimoine Network, Multiple Family Office Management, Geneva.

“For over 20 years Melanie has been a trusted advisor, facilitating complicated conversations between  people from diverse perspectives. The Katzman Consulting team helps families and their teams obtain a more global perspective about themselves and their companies, clarifying the values that drive  succession planning, impact philanthropy, and community engagement.”
Catherine Steiner-Adair, EdD
“C-suite whisperer Melanie Katzman reminds us that it’s the strength of our relationships that lay the foundation for greater success and joy at work.”
Catherine Steiner-Adair, EdD
“C-suite whisperer Melanie Katzman reminds us that it’s the strength of our relationships that lay the foundation for greater success and joy at work.”

Catherine Steiner-Adair, EdD,
Clinical Psychologist & Author, The Big Disconnect.

“C-suite whisperer Melanie Katzman reminds us that it’s the strength of our relationships that lay the foundation for greater success and joy at work.”
Vivian Polak
“Melanie is genius at tying together what you may currently experience as disparate interests. As a result of our work, I am integrating my capacities as an attorney, artist, activist, philosopher, and entrepreneur.”
Vivian Polak
“Melanie is genius at tying together what you may currently experience as disparate interests. As a result of our work, I am integrating my capacities as an attorney, artist, activist, philosopher, and entrepreneur.”

Vivian Polak,
Co-Founder, Red Thread Good Coffee.

“Melanie is genius at tying together what you may currently experience as disparate interests. As a result of our work, I am integrating my capacities as an attorney, artist, activist, philosopher, and entrepreneur.”
Jonathan Raiola
I began working with Melanie when my now thriving event planning business was only a concept. She helped structure the organization, interview potential hires & facilitated energetic offsites. Now, more than 12 years later, she continues to inspire with fresh & tailored guidance.
Jonathan Raiola
I began working with Melanie when my now thriving event planning business was only a concept. She helped structure the organization, interview potential hires & facilitated energetic offsites. Now, more than 12 years later, she continues to inspire with fresh & tailored guidance.

Jonathan Raiola,
President, Raiola/Co.

I began working with Melanie when my now thriving event planning business was only a concept. She helped structure the organization, interview potential hires & facilitated energetic offsites. Now, more than 12 years later, she continues to inspire with fresh & tailored guidance.
Pam Kaufman
“The value of Katzman Consulting’s coaching goes beyond the identified individual. Through their patience, humor, and relentless quest for clear communication, they assure that each member of the senior team is inspired to be a better manager.”
Pam Kaufman
“The value of Katzman Consulting’s coaching goes beyond the identified individual. Through their patience, humor, and relentless quest for clear communication, they assure that each member of the senior team is inspired to be a better manager.”

Pam Kaufman,
EVP & Chief Entertainment Officer, GAP, Inc. Former CEO & President Int’l Markets, Paramount.

“The value of Katzman Consulting’s coaching goes beyond the identified individual. Through their patience, humor, and relentless quest for clear communication, they assure that each member of the senior team is inspired to be a better manager.”
Madhu Rao
“Melanie’s warm and incisive approach is refreshing. She has a unique way of getting to core issues, zeroing in on the problem and offering an expert solution. She is effective and a great listener.”
Madhu Rao
“Melanie’s warm and incisive approach is refreshing. She has a unique way of getting to core issues, zeroing in on the problem and offering an expert solution. She is effective and a great listener.”

Madhu Rao,
Chair, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Singapore.

“Melanie’s warm and incisive approach is refreshing. She has a unique way of getting to core issues, zeroing in on the problem and offering an expert solution. She is effective and a great listener.”

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