Melanie Benson Strick
President & Founder, Success Connections, Inc.
Million Dollar Lifestyle Business Coach
Melanie Benson Strick founded Success Connections in 2001 when she left behind a lucrative Corporate job to pursue her passion in life – transforming the lives of overwhelmed, burned out entrepreneurs. Having learned first hand the difference between a struggling solo-practice and a thriving six+ figure business, Melanie works exclusively with entrepreneurs who want to skyrocket their profits so they can experience more time off.
With over 12 years experience in Corporate project management, advanced results coaching and leadership development, Melanie turns her clients into profitable, high-payoff success stories. Melanie’s clients enjoy an average growth rate of 172% within the first year.
Melanie is co-creator of the ULTIMATE
Success Generator , Virtual
Team Building Secrets, co-author of Visionary
Women Inspiring the World: 12 Paths to Personal Power and contributing
author to Entrepreneurial Spirits. She is past-president of the
International Coach Federation Los Angeles chapter and founding
past-director of the Shared Vision Network Los Angeles.
In addition to leading the company, Melanie Strick speaks at many small business seminars and conferences, is a guest expert on many teleclasses and radio shows, and has been featured in Entrepreneur.com along with hundreds of other on and offline publications.
Today Melanie coaches a limited group of private and group clients – all in the six to seven figure range – who want to streamline their business and experience more of a freedom-based lifestyle. For a complete list of all our programs and ways that Melanie and the coaching team can transform your business, visit http://www.successconnections.com/coaching.
Melanie’s background includes:
Past co-chair of the Small Business Coaching Task Force for the International Coach Federation, with a charter to promote the value of coaching to small business owners world-wide and to provide community for other coaches who serve this niche.
In 2003, launched the LA chapter of the Shared Vision Network, a professional organization for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Melanie is know as an extraordinary connector and thrives in networking, collaborative marketing partnerships and connecting the right people with the right resources – at the right time!
From 2001 to 2003, Melanie served in leadership positions including President of the International Coach Federation Los Angeles. Under her leadership, the chapter grew from a 10-person living-room meeting to a 50+ regular monthly professional dinner meeting.
From 1991 to 2001 Melanie worked for Motorola, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, in the Communications Division located in San Diego, CA. Her career included being a business analyst and trade show manager to Quality Systems Manager. She won two awards for innovative ideas and presentations in Motorola’s Total Customer Satisfaction program; spent three years managing multi-million dollar projects for state and local government dispatch centers; and traveled the country training teams how to meet customers satisfaction needs.
Melanie believes in continual learning and is advancing her education with a minimum investment of $15,000 a year. In addition to multiple business trainings in systems, marketing and advanced success strategies, Melanie is also certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Hypnosis, Master NLP Trainer, is a Licensed Spiritual Counselor, a graduate of Coach U, and has an accreditation as a Insights Discovery System™ Facilitator. Melanie holds a Masters of Arts in Organizational Management and a Bachelors of Science in Business Management.
