Melanie plunged into a senior team of a major London Institution, full of interpersonal tensions, misunderstandings and cynicism; although at the same time running a successful and admired operation. Her high professionalism, intelligence, sensitivity, patience and calm-as well as an ability to quickly see the fault lines-resulted in a significantly more motivated and mutually respectful and therefore effective group. Her contribution was enormous and her ability to deal with a very complex and engrained problem was highly impressive.

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Over the years, Melanie Katzman has been my trusted advisor, in different roles, organizations and countries. Each time she has delivered real and measurable results. In a global and extremely competitive environment demands on adaptability, change and performance is a genuine challenge. One of her most significant contributions is her ability to coach and guide individuals as well as teams in developing a vision or strategy and converting it into simple, tangible goals and objectives that actually deliver or exceed expectations. She has helped me achieve this across geographical and cultural borders through creating a common language that enables the individual and organization to grow in harmony.

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Not only is Dr. Katzman a great professional but her level of energy and passion is clearly "Summa Cum Laude"! On top of these outstanding qualities, she truly has a global vision, which clearly is a big plus in today's business universe...

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The focus of my coaching relationship with Melanie was to increase my professional confidence and polish my management skills. Thanks to Melanie's fantastic guidance, I was able to increase my professional profile and ultimately be named one of the 25 Influential Black Women in Business by The Network Journal, a Leadership Luminary in the communications industry at NAMIC’s (National Association for Multiethnicity in Communications),2006 Next Generation Leaders Award ceremony, as well as Career Excellence Award from Urban Influence Magazine and the National Urban League at their 2006 Influence Awards.

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Melanie is someone to whom I would trust my career and my life. In our workings she helped me dissect the constraints of my job. She guided me to understand when I needed to change in my ‘internal’ environment to get the most out of a very complicated situation…and together we strategically managed my transition to a new and better role that included a strong relationship with my former managers AND a promotion! She has been a very savvy and trusted guide for years and all this she and I did while having fun at upper west side breakfast haunts.

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Melanie helped our management group come together as a team by quickly identifying key business and interpersonal challenges and offering practical solutions to overcome them. Her insight was invaluable to our success.

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Katzman Consulting provides an extremely professional level of coaching competency- blending a fundamental understanding of individual behavior and group dynamics with the ability to teach in a highly effective way. The result for me has been lasting change, on both an individual and organizational level.

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Over the years, Melanie's coaching has been a key ingredient to my successfully navigating a string of stretch assignments. Our work began when I was a legal associate hoping for a more fulfilling career. Now I am building a new department for a growth company and am a member of its operating committee. If you are ready to challenge yourself and really grow, there is no one better!

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Katzman Consulting worked closely and sensitively with our senior management team before, during and after our corporate offsite, applying expertise in aligning varied and merged organizations in a highly tailored way that met our unique needs. Working together participants came away with a greater sense of their individual strengths and how to apply them more successfully to our organization going forward

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Melanie inspires trust from the moment you meet her, which lets you get right to work on the issues. She conveys a mix of competence and empathy that made it possible for me to accept her guidance when I would have rejected the same input from others. After two short conversations with Melanie, I was able to act decisively on related personal and professional issues that had me really stuck. And those decisive actions had all kinds of positive and far-reaching repercussions, including a few I could never have foreseen.

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The value of Melanie’s coaching goes beyond the identified individual. Through her patience, humor and relentless quest for clear communication Melanie assures that each member of the senior team is inspired to be a better manager

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Given her synergistic experience in clinical treatment, cross cultural research and cross national consulting work, Dr Katzman has been able to straddle paradigms and approach research with abundant new concepts, integrated methods and insightful interpretations. Dr Katzman is a great psychologist and half an anthropologist, so to speak. That binocular capacity in my view continues to enrich her work and benefits researchers who have the opportunity to collaborate with her

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I have followed Dr Katzman’s work closely over the years. I also have had the pleasure of hearing her speak at a number of national and international conferences. She has been a catalyst in bringing together scholars from around the world to consider cultural influences on individual behavior. Dr. Katzman is an extraordinarily effective lecturer. She is a frequently invited speaker at international meetings and one only has to attend one of her lectures to understand why she is in such high demand. Her talks are eloquent and engaging. Her comments or answers to the audience are thoughtful and thought provoking. Invariably, Dr Katzman presents new ideas; her talks are fresh and inspiring. Even small assignments reflect her ability to think ‘outside the box’ and treat the audience to an experience that is far from business as usual.

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Melanie is an amazing coach who has incredible insight into workplace and interpersonal dynamics. She helped me distill and benefit from feedback and develop a better understanding of my role and impact on the organization. The invaluable experience provided me with tools and perspectives that will stay with me throughout my professional life.

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We were very impressed with the outstanding results Jill Kristal produced for various projects. Her game-based tools-the calendar, felt book and card game have been well received by our staff who are in the process of relocating.

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Finally, I was promoted several months ago and find the content of what Jim and I discussed and the coaching process as a whole to be invaluable in my new position. Interestingly enough, some of the same issues (triggers that previously ended in poor, ineffectual responses on my part) have arisen in my new job, but today the outcome is completely different because of my understanding of emotional intelligence and specifically because of my time with Jim.

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I owe you a big thank you! Without your guidance, I wouldn’t have mastered the skills and confidence to be where I am today. You helped lift the fog and it was uncanny how you could grasp the issues from the beginning. While I no longer need you to translate what is being asked of me, I will miss our sessions – they were exhausting, uplifting and fun all at the same time.

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Being responsible for leadership development at major financial institutions I have had the opportunity to work with Melanie on a number of coaching assignments. She offers a rare mix of great strategic thinking, academic grounding and good humor. She adds special value for women’s leadership issues as she really understands the tensions and can relate to the needs of many prominent and successful women.

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