Melanie Ross

Melanie Ross

Bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and technology in the world of entrepreneurship and leadership.

About Your Guide

Melanie Ross — Leadership Guide
Melanie Ross is a transformation mentor, coach, and polymath whose work sits at a rare intersection: where ancient wisdom meets the digital age, and where leadership becomes a deeply human act.
With over two decades of experience working with CEOs, leadership teams, and entrepreneurs across the world, Mel brings a quality that is increasingly hard to find — the ability to hold both the timeless and the technological with equal fluency. She is the author of The Dilyn Way™, a human-first methodology for leadership transformation now in its eleventh year, and the creator of frameworks including the Tea with Mel Method and the Power of ONE — tools that quietly but powerfully shift how leaders think, feel, and act.
Mel is a Fellow of the Association of Business Mentors and one of the most sought-after voices at the intersection of digital transformation and human potential. She has worked across industries and continents, guiding individuals and organisations through some of the most complex transitions of our time — not just structurally, but soulfully.
At the heart of everything Mel does is a belief she has held and lived for over fifteen years: the gift of the age we live in is our ability to reconnect with our humanity — by leveraging digital and data for good. In a world accelerating faster than most people feel equipped to navigate, Mel offers something rare: a grounded, evidence-based, and deeply compassionate path forward.
As a guide on NR Journeys, Mel joins the community of guides here — bringing her signature blend of intellectual rigour, lived experience, and intuitive wisdom to support leaders who want to do more than succeed. Leaders who want to thrive — with clarity, purpose, and a profound sense of who they are in the world they are helping to shape.
Whether you are at the height of your influence or in the midst of reinvention, Mel's work will meet you exactly where you are.
Kai. The most anxious dog in the world, and how he saved it anyway

Kai. The most anxious dog in the world, and how he saved it anyway

Kai is the most anxious dog in the world.

Loud noises, new places, almost everything — it all frightens him, and he never goes anywhere without his yellow pineapple.

So when something cold and quiet steals the joy from his garden, Kai is the last one you'd expect to put it right. But with a steady friend at his side and a long road ahead, the most timid heart of all is about to discover what the bravest ones are made of.

This is a tender, funny, beautiful story about fear, friendship, and finding your courage — for everyone who has ever been scared, and been brave anyway.

26 minutes

Protocols to Win the Day

Protocols to Win the Day

Protocols are rituals that create boundaries. They help us to stay on course and can even course correct when we drift off a bit. In work and life, as a leader or a parent or friend protocols can be the difference between clarity and confusion, focus and fog, success or stuck. For the first time these protocols don't have to created by you or last for what sometimes can be hours. Simple guides listened to daily for about 10 minutes can get you back on track and keep you on the path to success in work and life. We all deserve to have a life well lived that starts in the present, not a promise in the future.

27 minutes

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