The more we speak about professionals pushing boundaries and doing the unconventional in their careers, the more we want to share their journeys to inspire others to do the same. With so many in high powered roles achieving outward success but struggling internally with burn-out, frustration and work life imbalance, we couldn’t help but notice the rise of the transformative Life, Career Coach and Success Trainer who empowers clients to upgrade their lives and careers to achieve true happiness and success; we are talking about Melanie Pritchard.
A lawyer turned Career and Life Coach and Corporate Success Trainer, Melanie helps clients peak perform in their personal and professional lives – whether career change and development, building high performance mindsets such as overcoming imposter syndrome, confidence blocks and limiting beliefs or optimising leadership, personal brand and training teams on wellbeing and success in the workplace for award-winning organisations.
Through powerful coaching methods and techniques, Melanie Pritchard helps transform lives one day at a time, unleashing client’s’ potential with high-impact tools and five-minute happiness hacks. “I find so many struggling to find balance and meaning in their lives, both personally and professionally. This ignited a fire within me to move from law to life, career coaching and corporate success training to help people overcome common challenges and obstacles to fulfil their highest potential,” she says.
Her journey into the field is both motivating and inspiring, leaving the well-respected legal world for the more inner-directed, entrepreneurial sphere of coaching, helping people move from where they are to where they want to be. The transition was marked by a profound personal experience of the loss of a loved one – her 23-year-old brother to brain cancer when she was only 17. The loss made her realize the brevity of life and the importance of living it fully and happily. This encouraged her to attain her Foundation degree in Psychology from Oxford University and certifications as a Telephone Counsellor, NLP Practitioner, Mental Health First Aid Trainer and trauma informed Coach.
She brings a rich arsenal of experiences and knowledge to her unique coaching practice, Melanie Pritchard Success Coaching. She has lived in different parts of the world, such as the UK, California, Spain, France, and Cape Town, and is currently based in Dublin. These experiences have only broadened her perspectives over the years, enriching her coaching skills which she has leveraged through co-authoring books like “Shift: A New Era Begins” and featuring in publications including Marie Claire, Grazia, LA Weekly, Women’s Health, The Financial Times and The Lawyer.
Her podcast, “The School of Success,” features varied professionals and discusses a range of themes, from entrepreneurship and mindset mastery to relationships and well-being. Her success helping clients create lives and careers they love has brought Melanie Pritchard to the forefront of the coaching realm for all the right reasons, seeing her work across a range of fields from law and finance to consulting, sales, tech and beyond.
On asking what keeps her going as a trusted coach, she says helping courageous clients move from confusion to clarity and tangible outcomes in a short time-frame inspires her daily. To do so, she offers a 3-part, structured approach to deconstructing the complex, helping clients connect with what truly excites them, including their passions, values, purpose and strengths – from here change is much easier. She loves working with various stakeholders, from management consultants, lawyers and barristers to creatives, scientists, salespeople and prisoners, across a range of issues, whether confidence blocks, relationship issues and co-parenting, career confusion, leadership development and beyond. This allows her to learn constantly, like a General Practitioner of the coaching world, if you like.
A commercial, creative hybrid with first-hand experience of the high-pressure corporate world, Melanie Pritchard is ideally placed to help clients create lives and careers they love by peeling back the layers of who they think they should be and connecting them to their true selves, which is where true happiness and success reside.
