Melanie Coeshott

Melanie Coeshott PCC FCA is an award-winning career coach and former senior finance leader who now specialises in mentoring finance professionals and leaders. During a 22-year corporate career—including serving as UK finance leader at Mastercard—Melanie built a reputation for turning data-driven insight into strategic business value while leading high-performing international teams.

Today, she helps finance leaders accelerate their influence, sharpen their commercial edge and build resilient, motivated teams. Melanie pairs her board-level experience with deep coaching credentials (ICF-certified PCC, NLP practitioner, DISC & Motivational Maps accreditation) to offer pragmatic, results-focused guidance on everything from stakeholder communication and talent retention to preparing for the next CFO role.

Finance executives who want a confidential sounding board—and a mentor who has walked in their shoes—choose Melanie for her rare blend of technical expertise, strategic perspective and empathetic leadership.

What Melanie’s clients say about her:
“I have just finished an incredible series of coaching and mentoring sessions. Melanie has been inspirational, providing insights into my motivational landscape, assisting with imposter syndrome, and coaching me through a number of difficult conversations. Without Melanie’s support I would not have been able to make the impact I have in the first 4 months of my executive career. An inspirational coach whose approach and knowledge are second to none. Thank you!” – Martin Cordy FCA, Director of Finance and Governance at Hospiscare

“To say that Melanie has had a transformative impact on my life would be an understatement. I have been working with her as a coach for over a year, and during that time I have achieved goals that I would hardly have dreamt were possible. She is a skilled coach, facilitator and practitioner and listens, questions and challenges without judgement. I trust her implicitly and find her very fun to work with – I always leave our sessions with some new piece of insight about myself and my situation. I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone looking for a coach.” – Emily Faulkner-Boyd, Director of Financial Inclusion