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.

Melanie is also an accomplished keynote speaker and finance executive coach, having recently headlined a high-profile U.S. finance conference where she inspired senior leaders from across the industry. She has featured on numerous panels throughout EMEA and North America, sharing her insights on leadership, influence, finance business partnering, and the evolving role of finance. In addition to her keynote and panel work, Melanie regularly delivers both live and virtual workshops for international finance teams — empowering finance professionals across the UK, Europe, and North America to elevate their impact and drive meaningful business performance.

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

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