Sharon Melnick, PhD is the premier expert on being in your power as a leader, and an authority on women's leadership, resilience, and power.

Her methods are informed by 10 years of research at Harvard Medical School, and field tested by 40,000 coaching/training participants at over 100 Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and women-led companies.  An international speaker and trainer, her presentations have created buzz at business and leadership conferences worldwide (and also at the White House, West Point, and the United Nations).   

She is the best-selling author of Success under Stress: Powerful Tools to Stay Calm, Confident, and Productive when the Pressure’s On and her new book is titled In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others.

Selected as a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach,  she's an Executive Coach for women executives/entrepreneurs who are vision holders and results drivers.  She helps them have influence,  prevent burnout, and end second-guessing.   She advises companies how to advance and retain their multicultural female talent. 

An avid runner, dance floor lover, and student of human evolution, she enjoys hosting the Power Shift podcast.

MEMORABLE MOMENTS
 

“I prioritized my own evaluation of myself over the contribution that I could have made for millions of people. In other words, I gave away my power.”

“When you're selling for your own company, it feels like you're selling you. And you really have to be more objective than subjective.”

“You could see that I made it about me, and not about the contribution that I could have made for those families or that any of us can make for our clients. So I think rather than asking the question, who am I…change your question and really make it more, who will benefit from me offering this service and being a champion?”

“It wasn't just that you were told these things, but on some level you bought into it. And because you bought into it, then you can unlearn it.” 

“The idea for us is that this is a story – a calculated coping mechanism. This is a narrative that we wrote that we can write over. And we have more power than we think.”

When you're in your power, you're a change agent. Simply just by the way that you show up. You require other people to see you the way that you see yourself. 

“When you think about reacting, really, the way to understand it is that it's a reactivation of a trigger within you. And that's really when we get kicked out of our power, it usually has to do with some kind of place of powerlessness, a personal hook that somebody else's behavior kind of transports us to.”

“What's the outcome that we want to have in the situation, and who do you need to show up as in order to move the situation in that direction?”

“Put on the hat of that person, and interpret the situation through their lens. There's this part of you, which is getting activated and hijacking the situation. This is a fast way for you to get back into your power.”

“The first time that somebody crosses your boundaries, you want to say something…you want to educate them about the intent of what they were trying to do, versus the impact it had on you.”

“The idea of being in your power, is that your emotional energy goes to making a difference, and you're not leaking your power. You're not giving it away.”

“Officially, it  [confidence] means your belief in your competence. But for me, it's more of an energy flow.”

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