Melissa Daimler

Melissa Daimler is a strategic advisor, executive coach and keynote speaker with over 20 years’ experience shaping culture, leadership and organisational systems at leading global companies. She partners with senior leaders navigating critical inflection points, using an integrated approach that drives individual leadership development alongside enterprise-wide change, ensuring culture evolves in tandem with emerging technologies.

Melissa has held senior executive roles at recognized Silicon Valley companies, including Adobe, Twitter, WeWork and Udemy. She has built leading global functions across learning, organisational development and culture. She is the author of the best-selling book, ReCulturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success (McGraw-Hill, 2022). She writes regularly for Forbes and has also been published in Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. Melissa is a TEDx speaker and guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the Misk Foundation in Saudi Arabia.

Her clients have included Disney, Pixar, Asana, C3 AI, Autodesk, the PGA and Rubrik. Leaders value her ability to translate complex organizational challenges into clear, actionable strategies that make culture a competitive advantage.

A pioneer in executive coaching, Melissa was among the first professionals certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She holds additional certifications in leadership and team assessments and earned her M.S. in Organisational Development from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business.

Based in San Francisco, Melissa works with leaders globally and has deep expertise in Silicon Valley technology companies and organisations throughout Europe and the Middle East.