Melissa Schmidiger

Melissa Schmidiger, founder of Bravo Darlings, is an executive coach who helps senior leaders pivot to their next chapter in 2 to 4 months, drawing on 30 years on the side of the table that decides careers.

She spent three decades in senior global roles at McKinsey, Singtel and Credit Suisse, where as Global Head of Employer Brand Marketing she saw first-hand how careers are really decided. Today she works with directors, VPs and C-suite leaders at a career inflection point: redundancy, a pivot, a step up, or reinvention. She is an ICF ACC certified coach and is trusted by leaders from Microsoft, Haleon and Kering.

Her flagship programme is The Bold Shift. For leaders who want to start with how they come across on paper, The Positioning Read is a written diagnosis of how their CV and LinkedIn land with the people who decide.