speaking & training
Let award-winning business owner, business coach, and author, Melanie Colusci, inspire and educate your team or event audience! Melanie’s down-to-earth and encouraging style engages audiences as she delivers powerful insights and knowledge that she gained throughout 20+ years of successful entrepreneurship.
Melanie also shares openly, candidly, and humorously, about her own entrepreneurial journey and the challenges she has faced and conquered. Her keynote speeches and professional development workshops can be tailored for a variety of business audiences.
Book Melanie for your:
- Keynote Address
- Workshop, Seminar, or Training
- Online Tele-seminars or Conference
- Corporate, Leadership or Organizational Retreat
speaking topics
- SMART Goals, Smart Accountability
- Partnerships & Business Succession
- Essential Business Planning
- Communicating Your Value
- Positioning for Profit
- Marketing & Personal Branding
- Setting Boundaries & Saying “No”
- Implementing Efficient Systems & Processes
- Time Management for Women Who Hustle
- Smart Strategies for Tracking & Measuring Progress
- Identifying & Overcoming Obstacles (SWOT Analysis)
- Building Your Dream Team
- Tips for Successful Networking
- Understanding Body Language and Effective Communication
- Coping with Unexpected Change and Starting Over
professional development trainings
- The Epic Formula for Creating Your Elevator Pitch
- Confidently Embrace Social Media: Systems & Processes
- Step-by-Step Business Planning
- Creating and Executing your SMART Goals
- No-Nonsense Marketing 101
speaking highlights
- Pittsburgh Women’s Mastermind
- Golden Triangle Networking
- Pittsburgh Business Show
- Octoberfest: Butler County
- Marketing Masterclass Workshop
- LEAP National Conference
- From Start-Up to Success Book Tour
- POSH Women
- Bethel Park Chamber of Commerce
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Melanie grew up in Montana surrounded by entrepreneurs.
After moving to Pittsburgh in 2008, she started Bridger Financial Group, a highly successful financial planning firm for which she won national and local financial industry awards and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes’ Wealth Managers Black Book, and Pittsburgh Magazine.
In 2017, Melanie wrote The Author’s Zone Award-winning book, From Start-Up To Success™: Navigating the Journey to Becoming (and Staying) a Successful Entrepreneur. She then launched the business, From Start-Up To Success™, through which she offers personalized business coaching, education, and support to help business owners clarify, simplify, and accelerate their path to success.
Melanie also facilitates Pittsburgh Women’s Mastermind™, a community of women entrepreneurs supporting one another through in-person and online forums.
When she’s not helping people build thriving businesses, Melanie loves spending time with her husband, three boys, and four cats.
