About Dr. Sharon
Sharon Melnick, PhD, is the premier expert at creating fast and lasting behavioral change in accomplished but overwhelmed professionals, enabling them to expand their leadership impact and become change agents across the enterprise. With her psychological tools, clients harness their emotional makeup to create an inspiring culture under stressful conditions, and use their influencing capacities to achieve outsized results.
- Global Authority on Leadership, Resilience, and Power
- Informed by 10 years of research at Harvard Medical School
- Award-Winning Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter at over 200 corporate retreats and leadership conferences (as well as at the White House and United Nations)
- Trained and Coached over 40,000 people at over 50 Fortune 500 Companies
- Best-selling Author of Success under Stress and In Your Power
- CEO of Horizon Point Inc., a global coaching and training firm.
- Host of the Power Shift Podcast
- Selected as a Marshall Goldsmith 100 Top Coach
- Thinkers50 2021 Global Coaching and Mentoring Award Nominee
“A leader in her power raises everyone around her. Being in your power is the ultimate act of service.”
Dr. Melnick is impatient to create a world based on empathy, equity, equality… not on exhaustion and emotional hijack. She’s found that every woman in her power is a Change Agent to make this happen. By showing up as her best self each woman requires others around her to value her the way she values herself, compels a fresh look and new rules for ‘business as usual’, and holds space for new conversations.
Dr. Melnick became a clinical psychologist because she wanted to create positive evolution. Her research at Harvard Medical School was on intergenerational issues – how children who didn’t feel seen, heard, or able to make an impact became parents and could overcome their difficult childhoods to make it better for their children (not perpetuate patterns they were conditioned into.) She’s leveraged these learnings into coaching leaders.
In response to the challenges faced in prior recessions she wrote Success under Stress. Many women in her audiences told her their biggest stress was confidence, which led her to share what she learned in her research combined with understanding of overcoming bias in book Confidence when it Counts.
Hearing the frustrations of smart but underutilized women led to her work on advancing and retaining women as the Founder of the Next Level Leader virtual coaching initiative (which has a 92% success rate advancing multicultural women into next level opportunities.)
Her education is from Yale University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard Medical School. She is a former Adjunct Professor at the Walter E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
She currently resides in NYC. She’s a runner and a mountain biker, always the first one on the dance floor, and a never-ending learner about human evolution.
