Practical Psychology.
Innovative Solutions.
Consummate Experience.

 

Practical Psychology.
Innovative Solutions.
Consummate Experience.

Services

Individuals

Melanie adeptly and compassionately guides clients through complex emotional and organizational challenges.  A clinical psychologist and expert in human behavior, she is engaged for 1:1 coaching directly by individuals or through their companies.

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Corporate

Katzman Consulting associates ensure the right conversations happen. They establish dynamic processes that deliver transformational outcomes—reconciling conflict within teams, building trust, and galvanizing performance. You’ll learn to sharpen your awareness of the personalities, group dynamics, and cultural distinctions that shape decision-making.

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Family Business

Melanie works with owners and leaders of privately held enterprises, helping them navigate the human complexities of running a business alongside the people closest to them. She works to detangle grievances, define roles, all while preserving the legacies and core values of founding families.

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Speaking

Keynote or interactive workshop, virtual or in-person, Melanie is a #1 best-selling Wall Street Journal author who brings energy, insight grounded by science, and 30 years of front-line experience advising leaders and teams to your stage.

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Kelly Day
“Melanie transformed challenging work issues into valuable learning opportunities. Our team universally rated her as the most fun and inspiring workshop leader—I would hire her in a heartbeat.”
Kelly Day
“Melanie transformed challenging work issues into valuable learning opportunities. Our team universally rated her as the most fun and inspiring workshop leader—I would hire her in a heartbeat.”

Kelly Day,
VP International, Amazon Prime Video; Former President of Streaming, ViacomCBS.

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“Melanie transformed challenging work issues into valuable learning opportunities. Our team universally rated her as the most fun and inspiring workshop leader—I would hire her in a heartbeat.”
Adam Grant
"Melanie is an integrative, synthetic thinker who is able to see the points of convergence across disparate people, ideas, geographies, and industries. As a clinical psychologist and corporate consultant, it's the key to her impact."
Adam Grant
"Melanie is an integrative, synthetic thinker who is able to see the points of convergence across disparate people, ideas, geographies, and industries. As a clinical psychologist and corporate consultant, it's the key to her impact."

Adam Grant,
Professor, The Wharton School & NY Times best-selling author.

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"Melanie is an integrative, synthetic thinker who is able to see the points of convergence across disparate people, ideas, geographies, and industries. As a clinical psychologist and corporate consultant, it's the key to her impact."
Steven Tallman
“Melanie has a gift for simplifying the complex in real time. Her thinking is often ahead of the organization. She reads the room, picking up subtleties that unlock stuck discussions.”
Steven Tallman
“Melanie has a gift for simplifying the complex in real time. Her thinking is often ahead of the organization. She reads the room, picking up subtleties that unlock stuck discussions.”

Steven Tallman,
Advisory Partner, Bain & Co; Former Head of Global Operations.

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“Melanie has a gift for simplifying the complex in real time. Her thinking is often ahead of the organization. She reads the room, picking up subtleties that unlock stuck discussions.”
Andrea Olshan
“With Katzman Consulting’s help, our family run business executed a succession plan, redefined our corporate mission and vision, coalesced as an executive team, and truly became one unified company across many divisions and offices. KC helped us to identify and harness the talents of our entire team and guided our company’s next stage of growth.”
Andrea Olshan
“With Katzman Consulting’s help, our family run business executed a succession plan, redefined our corporate mission and vision, coalesced as an executive team, and truly became one unified company across many divisions and offices. KC helped us to identify and harness the talents of our entire team and guided our company’s next stage of growth.”

Andrea Olshan,
CEO and President, Seritage Growth Properties; Former CEO, Olshan Properties.

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“With Katzman Consulting’s help, our family run business executed a succession plan, redefined our corporate mission and vision, coalesced as an executive team, and truly became one unified company across many divisions and offices. KC helped us to identify and harness the talents of our entire team and guided our company’s next stage of growth.”
Lila Preston
“Melanie always keeps the bigger purpose front and center. Over the years, she has provided tactical and strategic advice that has propelled my impact with the team, investors & the portfolio companies I support to achieve our sustainability goals.”
Lila Preston
“Melanie always keeps the bigger purpose front and center. Over the years, she has provided tactical and strategic advice that has propelled my impact with the team, investors & the portfolio companies I support to achieve our sustainability goals.”

Lila Preston,
Head of Growth Equity, Generation Investment Management.

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“Melanie always keeps the bigger purpose front and center. Over the years, she has provided tactical and strategic advice that has propelled my impact with the team, investors & the portfolio companies I support to achieve our sustainability goals.”
Federico Schiffrin
“Melanie has become a crucial part of my life and the tens of people I have recommended her to. She has uncompromisingly tested my assumptions, helped me deal with emotions in the moment and, as a result, helped me hone a decision-making algorithm that maximizes the options available, while not forgetting that the most successful option must include both the pursuit of tangible results, as well as the pursuit of happiness.”
Federico Schiffrin
“Melanie has become a crucial part of my life and the tens of people I have recommended her to. She has uncompromisingly tested my assumptions, helped me deal with emotions in the moment and, as a result, helped me hone a decision-making algorithm that maximizes the options available, while not forgetting that the most successful option must include both the pursuit of tangible results, as well as the pursuit of happiness.”

Federico Schiffrin,
Partner and Co-Head of GP Solutions, Declaration Partners.

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“Melanie has become a crucial part of my life and the tens of people I have recommended her to. She has uncompromisingly tested my assumptions, helped me deal with emotions in the moment and, as a result, helped me hone a decision-making algorithm that maximizes the options available, while not forgetting that the most successful option must include both the pursuit of tangible results, as well as the pursuit of happiness.”
Julia Beizer
“Melanie connects the work we do to a larger purpose. She’s helped me cultivate transformational opportunities for my business while leading with empathy and heart.”
Julia Beizer
“Melanie connects the work we do to a larger purpose. She’s helped me cultivate transformational opportunities for my business while leading with empathy and heart.”

Julia Beizer,
CVP, Content Product, Microsoft AI; Former Chief Digital Officer, Bloomberg Media.

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“Melanie connects the work we do to a larger purpose. She’s helped me cultivate transformational opportunities for my business while leading with empathy and heart.”
Sharis Pozen
"Melanie's strategic thinking, insights, and experience as an executive coach are exceptional. She gave me confidence to trust my instincts, while also providing practical tools, and helping me develop effective tactics to execute on strategies."
Sharis Pozen
"Melanie's strategic thinking, insights, and experience as an executive coach are exceptional. She gave me confidence to trust my instincts, while also providing practical tools, and helping me develop effective tactics to execute on strategies."

Sharis Pozen,
Regional Managing Partner, Americas, Clifford Chance US LLP.

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"Melanie's strategic thinking, insights, and experience as an executive coach are exceptional. She gave me confidence to trust my instincts, while also providing practical tools, and helping me develop effective tactics to execute on strategies."

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