Melanie Ryan (she/her)
"Two things can be true: we can achieve exceptional business outcomes and honor the worth of every person. We achieve both when we lead authentically and create spaces for others to do the same."
The Professional Stuff
Melanie Ryan has thirty years of diverse experience as a finance executive, nonprofit founder, and business owner. She thrives in partnering with organizations and individuals to meet business and individual goals that are centered in the worth and value of people.
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She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and received her training and certification as a Certified Professional Diversity Coach from ICF accredited Coach Diversity Institute.
As Chief Financial Officer for Microsoft Education she led strategy and planning, financial planning and analysis, and business decision support of a multi-billion dollar division. She was known as a people-centered leader and was an executive sponsor for the Early Career Talent Program and multiple DEI programs within the company.
She believes passionately in investing in her local community. Melanie has leveraged her experience in both the corporate and social sectors to identify needs in her community and subsequently founded two local nonprofits to provide solutions. Her ability to have a vision that is mission focused and executed with a strategic, systemic, and equitable lens built sustainable organizations that are successfully achieving goals, providing access, and closing opportunity gaps.
She founded MFR Coaching & Consulting in 2020 with a mission to empower organizations, communities, and individuals to achieve equitable, impactful, and sustaining growth.
She leverages her experience to build capacity and skills that transform and create executive leaders. She is known for her ability to connect what people say to underlying root issues. She uses these connections to empower people to reach their full potential and assist organizations to build equitable cultures that are impactful, genuine, and sustaining.​
Melanie lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two dogs, and a cat. She has two grown children.
“Melanie helped me open some doors that I hadn’t realized I was holding closed. I think the sign of a great coach is to not so much do the work for them but help them see that they are capable of doing it themselves. That’s the gift that Melanie has given me.” – Executive coaching client
Education & Certifications
Education: Masters in Social Work; B.A., Accounting (Literature Minor)
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Certifications: Professional Certificed Coach (PCC) - International Coaching Federation; Certified Professional Diversity Coach; Certified Diversity & Belonging Facilitator; Certified Culture Assessor; Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) Qualified Administrator; Hogan Assessment Certified; Certified Professional Accountant (Inactive)