Team Development

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

Maya Angelou

Team development assessments and workshops

We partner with corporate, non-profit, & small business teams to activate transformational leadership and growth. If you're an organization looking to engage and develop your leaders, you've come to the right place.

These workshops open up powerful connection and inspire agency that distinguishes high-performing, sustainable teams.

Strategize with Melissa

Build mental fitness.

Lead with presence.

Positive Intelligence (PQ) coaching and workshops that help leaders and teams interrupt self-sabotaging patterns and show up with greater clarity, presence, and connection.

Positive Intelligence (PQ) is an evidence-based mental fitness framework developed by Shirzad Chamine, based on research across 500,000 participants and insights from neuroscience, cognitive behavioral psychology, and performance science.

At its core, PQ helps you identify the internal mental patterns, called Saboteurs, that quietly undermine your performance, relationships, and wellbeing. Through practical, repeatable exercises, you learn to interrupt these patterns and activate a more resourceful, resilient mindset.

The result: leaders who respond rather than react, teams that communicate with more clarity and less friction, and organizations that build resilience from the inside out.

Positive Intelligence (PQ) in Practice: Coaching and Workshops

PQ in 1:1 Coaching
In individual coaching, PQ provides a powerful foundation for self-awareness and growth. Through the Saboteur Assessment and ongoing mental fitness practice, you will identify the patterns that hold you back and build new habits that support the leader you want to be.

PQ Team Workshops
The Positive Intelligence Saboteur Workshop is a half-day, team-based experience that helps groups identify shared patterns, build awareness, and develop practical techniques for more intentional collaboration. It is engaging, accessible, and works for teams at any stage of development.

A brief Saboteur Assessment is included for all participants and completed prior to the workshop.

PQ and Energy Leadership Melissa often integrates PQ with Energy Leadership (ELI) to give clients a comprehensive view of both their mental patterns and their energetic leadership style. Together, these frameworks create a complete picture of how you show up and how to show up differently.

Is PQ right for you?

PQ is a strong fit for:

Leaders who want to build mental resilience and self-awareness as a foundation for growth
Teams new to leadership development or with blended tenures and experience levels
Professionals in high-pressure, service-driven environments who need practical tools they can use immediately
Anyone ready to move from autopilot to intention

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Understand your energy.

Lead with intention.

Energy Leadership (ELI) coaching and workshops that help leaders and teams understand how their energy influences performance, presence, and the people around them.

The Energy Leadership Index (ELI) is an attitudinal assessment developed by Bruce D Schneider and the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), grounded in the principle that energy, how you perceive and engage with the world, directly shapes how you lead.

The ELI identifies the energy patterns that drive your leadership behavior, both in everyday moments and under pressure. Through the assessment and debrief process, you gain a clear picture of where your energy is supporting your effectiveness and where it's working against you.

The result: leaders who understand the impact of their presence, teams that develop a shared language for how they show up together, and organizations that build the kind of intentional leadership culture that sustains high performance.

Energy Leadership in Practice: Coaching and Workshops

Energy Leadership in 1:1 Coaching
In individual coaching, the Energy Leadership Index provides a clear picture of how you show up under pressure and what's driving your leadership behavior. Through the ELI assessment and debrief, you'll identify the energy patterns that limit your effectiveness and develop the awareness to lead with greater intention.

Energy Leadership Team Workshops
The Energy Leadership Workshop is a half-day, team-based experience that helps groups examine how their presence and energy influence the people and dynamics around them. Participants develop a shared leadership language that strengthens communication, collaboration, and impact across roles and functions. A brief ELI assessment is included for all participants and completed prior to the workshop.

An in-depth ELI assessment is included for all participants and completed prior to the workshop.

PQ and Energy Leadership — Melissa often integrates ELI with Positive Intelligence (PQ) to give clients a comprehensive view of both their energetic leadership style and their mental patterns. Together, these frameworks create a complete picture of how you show up and what becomes possible when you lead more intentionally.

Is the ELI right for you?

The ELI is a strong fit for:

Leaders ready to examine how their presence and intentions shape the people around them
Teams with an established foundation of trust and self-awareness, ready to look outward
Mid-to-senior leaders navigating complex dynamics and high expectations
Anyone who suspects their impact isn't matching their intent

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Melissa is incredible and found a way to lead our team of very talented, yet squirrelly individuals to deep understandings about better ways to check in, hold each other accountable, be aware of our self sabotaging tendencies and create simple adjustments to have more control over our thoughts and emotions. Best coach I have worked with so far.

April D.
Melissa did an incredible job with our Pod PQ training. She provided such an individual experience for each of us, while all of us were in the experience at the same time. That is a special gift. She is humble, confident and a true expert of her trade. You will learn, you will change and you will not regret investing in her and in yourself. Go for it!! Cheering for you!

Chelsea W.
The workshop is an eye-opening experience, both from a team perspective and individual perspective. I've been able to catch moments in both my personal and work lives where I succumb to my saboteurs and have been able to acknowledge them and disregard them before they get too intense. Melissa is thorough, but also takes a casual approach to her coaching; it felt much more like a natural and human conversation than a typical coaching session. I'd highly recommend!

Andy S.
The saboteur workshop was so beneficial and eye opening for me. Learning that there are positive aspects to my saboteurs was huge and being able to call them out by name has been a complete daily game changer. Working with Melissa was amazing. She makes you feel like you are talking to a coach as well as talking to a friend. She created a comfortable environment to feel confident in sharing my own personal experiences.

Maddie M.
Melissa did a great job unpacking a lot of concepts in a short amount of time, in such a way that everyone on our team walked away with several new tools. We were able to implement a few things immediately! She is really knowledgeable and offers a unique perspective around mental fitness. Melissa is amazing to work with. Best of the best.

Jake D.
We took some time as a leadership team to explore the different saboteurs, and I highly recommend on both a personal and professional level. My curiosity was peaked, and I learned just how much our mind plays a role in our day-to-day interactions and responses. I now have that awareness, and the tools to explore overcoming those scenarios, and I feel empowered.

Amanda L.
Thanks to Melissa’s guidance, I gained a deeper understanding of how to intercept sabotaging thoughts and build lasting mental fitness. Her support throughout the program was thoughtful and consistent, and she made the material feel relevant and actionable. I highly recommend Melissa and Intrinsic Lead to anyone looking to level up their mindset, leadership, and resilience.

Steve W.