Melva Holt, ACC

CEO & Founder | PAISE Leadership

Melva Holt is a distinguished executive leader, seasoned leadership development expert, and a catalyst for transformative change. Melva is the CEO and Founder of PAISE Leadership, a boutique leadership development coaching and consulting firm focused on building cultures of accountability, feedback and trust-filled teams. With an impressive career spanning over 20 years across diverse industries, Melva’s expertise lies in executive leadership, leadership development, and team effectiveness. Her remarkable track record of driving organizations through monumental transformations by addressing core challenges, creating comprehensive, clear strategic frameworks, and coaching leaders to excel at new echelons sets her apart as a visionary leader and coach.  Melva has worked extensively with C-suite executives, offering tailored coaching to enhance their strategic thinking, decision-making abilities, and leadership presence, and she excels in facilitating team development and fostering collaboration within diverse groups, helping teams align their goals, improve communication, and maximize their collective performance.

Melva is known for being warm yet no nonsense and for developing high performing teams no matter the environment. Melva is a Certified Master Coach who believes in partnering with her clients to surface their true desires and go get them in her integrated life and career coaching approach. Her clients break through the mental blocks keeping them from making real progress toward their goals, positively shifting the trajectory of their lives. Melva is affectionately known as “the magic maker” amongst her executive coaching clients, and she specializes in helping leaders say the hard things that ultimately provide the traction for improvement and growth. This includes coaching leaders to deliver tough but actionable feedback, resolve conflict and challenge the status quo.

Melva holds a Certified Master Coach (CMC) designation from the Center for Coaching Certification and Associate Coaching Certification (ACC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF), the gold standard for coaching credentials. She is also a Hogan Assessments, Five Behaviors, and Rejuvi certified provider. These certifications reflect her commitment to upholding the highest standards of professionalism and ethics in coaching.

Melva currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Alumni Association Board Career Services Committee and is a mentor with the Atlanta Hawks SheLEADS mentoring program. Melva is a member of the DEI ThinkTank sponsored by the NeuroLeadership Institute and a member of the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce.

Coaching Specialties: Executive Coaching, Feedback & Conflict Resolution, Team Coaching, Team Building, Strategy Facilitation, Change Management

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