Canadian Business Awards 2022

Pauline Melnyk was a pioneer in the age of the “walkout”. She said, “Six years ago, I bravely chose to leave behind situations, jobs, relationships, and ideas that restricted and confined me in the workplace. I had the good sense to believe in myself and how change happens.” Her coaching strengths come from building healthy and resilient practices for others, workplaces and forming trust in teams and regenerative leadership approaches. She established Melnyk Consultancy, now globally recognised for knowing how change happens in organisations, and for its unique approach to training, accreditation, and certification of people skill. The consultancy takes on the challenging problems that others have been unable to solve in simple, practical ways. No matter the client’s position, values of integrity, fairness, maximisation and collaboration will help them to gain the knowledge to communicate and implement the change vision, innovate their area of work and advocate for their teams. Lead trainer and coach, Pauline Melnyk is passionate about building capacity intentionally, and with curiosity, focusing on what is right within teams and what can be increased or maximised by helping them experience happiness, wellbeing and success. Increasingly, complex problems require innovative approaches, and the whole globe is shook up; Melnyk Consultancy partners with businesses to develop healthy future state business models underpinned by respectful, agile organisational systems design. A key focus of Melnyk is to help reshape human-centric work design by implementing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Melnyk creates the proposition that the client can offer their employees, even plan and execute, a reopening strategy which can determine and contribute to enterprise ambitions around technology, employee wellbeing, and human/hybrid/equitable work environments. Additionally, the company works to tackle ecological sustainability, creating capacity in roles, and building new positions to deal with unsolvable problems, scare resources, limiting beliefs, and reconstructing collective behaviours. It ignites purposeful social change and economic self-reliance, focusing on growth and success of leaders for tomorrow that transform business models and systems for future integrity and values. Melnyk is known to train, coach, and accredit individuals and teams, helping to move them from awareness to action in the journey to sustainability. All strategies and operations increase the leader’s toolbox, and their understanding that good practices or innovation in one area cannot make up for doing harm in another. Best practices in change management improve human resources approaches and employee engagement that helps businesses embed and implement change. This also creates new learning experiences designed to give the knowledge and skills needed to meet sustainability objectives. The Melnyk team are all catalysts for change and they bring people, purpose and passion together to do the work. They challenge the assumptions and beliefs and create new ‘ah-ha!’ and ‘ta-da!’ moments. It is all about working collaboratively and building capacity at the individual, team, organisation, community, or societal levels. Pauline Most Innovative Change Management Consultancy 2022 Founded in 2016 by Pauline Melnyk, Melnyk Consultancy Ltd is dedicated to supporting leaders and professionals through change and transformation. With its commitment to change management, the company made the instrumental move forward in advancing careers and competencies across sectors and industries. said, “For many years, we’ve experienced and seen systems that require change ahead of the curve. Given the opportunity to shake up thinking, we create generational shifts by assessing people, planet and profits across sectors and industries.” In small business, non-profit, industry, corporate, and government entities, sustainability is key; as strong implementors and facilitators, Melnyk helps create the ‘safe container’ to transform, be present and engaged. Pauline enjoys providing the conditions where the work is done, partnering with programme leaders, and project teams can capitalise on the functional rate of change and adaptive cascading goals. Melnyk helps transform by experiences, immersion, observation, reflection, and building relationships. Melnyk also sees value in partnering with academia to create work integrated learning opportunities for students. It pushes the boundaries on innovative funding so that students can be mentored in real work experience and to provide its stakeholders and clients with opportunities to have grassroots experiences. The company is currently working with healthcare leaders and physicians to innovate leadership in crisis, whilst paving the way to the future it wants to advance, with outcomes in business activities and diversity, equity and belonging. Pauline said, “Intrinsic to success is connecting people to passion and purpose with new ways of thinking and organising and literally attending to what is dying in the old systems by focusing on the transition ahead and capturing the knowledge and lessons learned.” Pauline finds that being based in Canada has the bonus of being able to work anywhere in the world with formal leadership champions – those who have the courage and desire to destabilise and challenge old habits and old ways of thinking. Pauline said, “Partnering with dedicated and thoughtful revolutionaries can feel like lonely work, often ignored and invisible. What keeps me focused is a deep intuition that things can be better – linking trauma informed coaching, change management, and green project management to people practices, inherent motivation, creativity, and caring about quality work environments.” She continued, “Mental health and the ability to offer your talents, ideas, and skills as gifts is the new flexibility currently searched for by those escaping the existing systems. What will become visible is how specialists, while skilled, talented, and motivated, are exhausted and demoralised. Fatigue impacts their ability to be present and available, with long-term consequences of our good intention bearing witness to what’s happened as a result of our reliance on efficiency. “We help improve skills to solve problems and develop a new implementation plan. When have you been given someone else’s plans or practices and been told to just implement them? Noticing the interconnections to the problems mean we can no longer work harder, influence decision makers, or add more resources. Transition as a process is defined by people – I am human because I belong, I participate, and I share.” Melnyk is now focused on Q1 of 2022 and human-centric design

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