About

Melissa Warner is a highly experienced academic and applied organizational and leadership development consultant, professor and expert. She possesses 16 years of teaching and facilitating experience. Through active practise as the President of Warner Consulting, she has assessed and coached business leaders for 17 years, including in a full-time role as a corporate leader. She is able to tactfully draw from a conglomerate background of fields including neuroscience, psychology, and business, to coach leaders in sector such as provincial government, pharmaceuticals, retail, marketing, public relations, agriculture, insurance, electricity generation, IT, aerospace, heath, and finance. She has helped leaders achieve their goals and championing changes within a variety of business functions including sales, operations, marketing, logistics, and technology. Melissa has experience designing and publishing assessment scales to measure managerial support and co-worker support.

In addition to her consulting, she holds the position of Professor in the School of Global Business Management at Seneca College where she teaches leadership and human resources. As an academic, she has taught 16 courses at the university-level in the areas of organizational behaviour, training and development, and performance management. As diversity and inclusion are part of her main focus both practically and in academia, she teaches a course on diversity and bias in business, has lead a project across the college on embedding more diversity-friendly recruitment, selection, training and management practises. Furthermore, she has contributed to the academic body of research through publications in books, peer reviewed journals, and presentations at international conferences.

Melissa possess a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Guelph, Canada. Throughout her PhD Melissa received several awards for her research including an SSHRC research grant and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Melissa is an active member of the Canadian and American Psychological Associations and has contributed research to conferences internationally through these associations.