Melissa Majors
Leadership and Inclusion Speaker, Author, Consultant and Coach
Melissa Majors, CEO of Melissa Majors Consulting, is an innovator and optimizer of education, inclusion, & leadership strategies. She has dedicated her career to maximizing the business impact associated with these areas of focus.
Full Profile
Melissa Majors is a transformative leadership and inclusion strategist, renowned for her actionable keynotes that spark meaningful change. Drawing on over 25 years leading high-performance teams in organizations such as Nationwide Insurance, Wells Fargo, Ellucian, and Meeting Professionals International, Melissa empowers companies to embed inclusive practices that directly enhance business outcomes, innovation, and engagement.
About Melissa Majors
Melissa Majors is CEO of Melissa Majors Consulting and the author of “The 7 Simple Habits of Inclusive Leaders.” With expertise sharpened at the executive level and furthered by advanced study at Harvard University, she specializes in optimizing education, leadership, and inclusion strategies. Melissa is celebrated for her trailblazing work in diverse industries, including finance, education, healthcare, government, and real estate, where she has consistently driven double-digit growth and lasting organizational transformation.
Business Impact and Challenges Addressed
- Overcoming workplace toxicity and disengagement
- Bridging the gap between DEI intentions and measurable results
- Boosting profitability and organizational performance through evidence-backed inclusive leadership
- Equipping leaders to neutralize bias, foster psychological safety, and unlock innovation within teams
- Providing practical frameworks and toolkits that enable leaders to build inclusive, resilient cultures that retain talent and accelerate growth
Melissa’s signature approaches – including tactical empathy, intellectual humility, intersectionality, and the in’klooded® methodology – combine neuroscience, business acumen, and practical tools for real-world impact. Her sessions are designed to inspire action, raise organizational capabilities, and operationalize diversity and inclusion for measurable returns.
Talks
What do inclusive leaders do? What specific actions do they take to demonstrate a commitment to inclusion?
Inclusive leadership expert Melissa Majors is an innovator and optimizer of inclusion, leadership, and education strategies. In The 7 Habits of Inclusive Leaders, she reveals how great leaders enjoy superior team performance and drive much higher profitability by incorporating inclusive practices.
These behaviors fall into seven categories: Business Process, Collaboration, Mindset, Leading Self and Others, Decisions, Values, Empathy
This discussion is for all leaders; leaders of self, people, initiatives, and organizations.
Learner Outcomes:
- Identify and describe concepts such as intellectual humility, tactical empathy, and intersectionality.
- Gain insight into the habits and tactics used by inclusive leaders.
- Unlock access to social posts, job aides, and toolkits to help build inclusive habits.
Women commonly experience unique workplace challenges due to covert competition, microaggressions, lack of sponsors and mentors, balancing authenticity and assimilation, gaining and retaining power, being heard, increased scrutiny, etc.
However, women’s success is not just a woman’s issue. Without the avid support of men, often the most influential stakeholders in many large corporations, significant progress toward ending gender disparities are unlikely.
During this talk, Melissa of Melissa Majors Consulting examines research, scenarios, and best practices for leveraging ethical leadership to mitigate barriers to women’s success. This discussion is relevant for both men and women in manager and non-manager roles.
Learner Outcomes:
- Articulate the case for integrity-based
- leadership as it relates to mitigating common challenges women face in the workplace. Describe specific leadership tactics that can be used to overcome these issues.
- Gain access to resources (infographics and pre-defined social posts) that can be used to continue the conversation with your network.
Want to be an even better leader? Of course! But really, who has time to invest in leadership training? Not the leaders who need it; they’re too busy leading!
Some of the trends covered include: Prioritization, Intellectual Humility, Overcoming Fear of Conflict, Fostering Trust Across Difference, Virtual Collaboration, Tactical Empathy, Empowering Others, Inclusion, Maintaining Mental Clarity, Servant Leadership.
During this talk, Melissa Majors, CEO of Melissa Majors Consulting, synthesizes best practices for evolved leadership into a comprehensive course that you actually have time to take! This discussion is relevant for leaders of people and initiatives.
Learner Outcomes:
- Demonstrate tactics associated with relevant leadership trends and best practices.
- Describe the need for evolved leadership. Gain access to resources (infographics and pre-defined social posts) that can be used to continue the conversation with your network.
There’s hope! High-performing leaders detoxify their workplaces through tactics that rehumanize themselves, their teams, and their company cultures. They simplify over-engineered experiences and embrace the humanity of those they lead and serve.
During this fun, inspirational, yet actionable experience, Melissa Majors examines research, stories, and best practices for mitigating unintentional toxicities and boosting engagement, high performance, and team happiness. Based on neuroscience, research, and common sense, she illuminates profound insights and simple tips you can immediately use to become an even better leader. This discussion is relevant for all leaders.
Learner Outcomes:
- Articulate the case for rehumanized leadership in mitigating modern-day workplace challenges.
- Equipped with specific leadership tactics that can be used to overcome these issues.
- Ability to Access resources (infographics and pre-defined social posts) that can be used to continue the conversation with your network.
Duration:
45 – 90 minute options available.
Learning Experience:
Delivered as a keynote, concurrent session, or an engaging, brain-friendly workshop that incorporates lecture, group discussion, and individual reflection.