About Hodell Consulting
First-hand Executive Experience
Dr. Melinda Hodell’s work as an executive coach and with leadership teams spans retail, publishing, healthcare, manufacturing, aerospace, technology, and non-profits. With this breadth of experience behind her, she quickly grasps the language, culture, strategies and challenges particular to the industries and professionals she serves. She works not only with CEOs but also with senior executives in finance, marketing, operations, HR, corporate communications and legal.
Melinda has experienced first-hand the challenges of managing people and the professional and personal demands of effective leadership. As a corporate executive, Dr. Hodell held management positions in four companies and has reported directly to the CEO and president four different times. At Kaiser Permanente, she conceived and launched the Department of Strategy and Culture Alignment, which helped Kaiser’s top executives successfully navigate tremendous organization change.
Social Psychologist and Communicator
Dr. Hodell holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University. She’s deeply interested in what motivates leaders and teams, and in the role conformity, obedience, conflict, and altruism play in business. She honed her counseling and group facilitation skills in the Masters Program in Counseling Psychology at Loyola Marymount University. She received her psychologist license in 1993.Melinda Hodell also holds a B.A. in English from Stanford University. An excellent writer and speaker, she helps clients communicate their ideas to stakeholders with clarity and conviction.
Partnerships that Enhance Client Performance
Dr. Hodell partners with other external experts to ensure clients accomplish their goals. She has alliances with public speaking experts, industry thought-leaders and strategists, best-places-to-work consultants, improvisational team-building professionals, psychotherapists, and fitness training and nutrition education consultants.Time-tested Tools
While the focus of her work is decidedly on people and not research data, when appropriate Dr. Hodell uses time-tested tools of the coaching, leadership and counseling fields. These tools help identify personality traits, and work and social styles. The information gleaned from tools such as the Wonderlic Personnel Test, the Strength Deployment Inventory, Strong Interest Inventory, and Myers-Briggs, 16PF, Enneagram and other personality “typologies” contribute to client insights and strategies.