Valrine Daley-Meleschi

Valrine Daley-Meleschi brings over 18 years of experience in leadership development program design, executive assessment, helping adults learn at work; executive coaching and group/process facilitation. Prior to forming her own consulting practice she was the Practice Manager for Organization Development & Internal Coaching at Citigroup's Global and Corporate Investment Bank. Valrine has also managed the organization development and training function at ABC/Disney playing a key role in merging corporate cultures through management development using novel diversity approaches. At Columbia University she developed and managed its leadership and service culture development initiatives. Her passion is designing and facilitating rich experiences for professionals to learn at work using innovative and integrated platforms.

Ms. Daley-Meleschi has created strategic partnerships for the collaboration of higher education and economic development initiatives. Valrine has been a member of the adjunct faculty at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the City University of New York. Her work with female professionals in the area of self-promotion and branding received national recognition in O Magazine. She is a highly regarded speaker and facilitator for an array of organizations including: Ford Motor Company, The Financial Women's Association, Citigroup and the YMCA of Harlem, New York. Her current work includes coaching senior executives through transitional environments, developing influence and negotiation skill development for individual contributors, coaching women at the crossroads of career "success" and un-pursued interests using group coaching and networking tools.

She is certified by the Center For Creative Leadership to administer and coach using their range of 360 degree feedback tools for executives, managers and individual contributors; by Personnel Decisions Inc. and the Tom Peters Group. Valrine is certified by the Achieve Global Group in their Zenger Miller Global Leadership program, Citigroup's inventory of Executive and Managerial development curricula and coaching platforms.

Valrine is an alumna of Harvard University's School of Law Program on Negotiation and has completed graduate coursework at Columbia University's Teachers College in Adult Learning. She holds a BA from the University of Washington in Political Science and Economics.

She resides in Montclair, New Jersey with her family and is the 2005-06 Professional Development and Training Chair of the Montclair-Newark Junior League.