Influential Woman · Coaching
Susan Melin
Certified Professional Coach, The Oz Effect Coaching LLC
Trumbull, CT
Her Story
About Susan
Susan Melin is a coach and the owner of the Oz Effect Coaching, a one-on-one coaching business she has operated for two years in Trumbull, Connecticut. She earned a bachelor's degree in British and American literature from George Washington University and later obtained her International Coaching Federation Level 2 certification through the International Coaching Academy. Melin specializes in coaching and entrepreneurship, and she is a member of the Speakers Collaborative, WE Summits, and a Professional Women's networking group. She attributes her success to listening to others and a genuine desire to be of service, while upholding values of integrity, empathy, and kindness. Melin is passionate about developing an ecosystem or nonprofit to help young people and families overcome digital addiction and embrace presence in daily life. As a new business owner, she notes challenges in building trust with clients and the lack of regulation in the coaching field, and she advises aspiring coaches to prioritize service from the heart.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Susan
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to really listening to people about what they're going through and how they feel, and just wanting to be of service to them.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice is something that I just really received recently, in the last couple of years, and that was to trust my own knowledge, and to trust myself and my intuition, because it won't lead me astray.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Going into the industry of coaching, I think a woman really needs to want to be of service to other people. If you go into it with anything other than genuinely, from your heart and soul, wanting to help people, you're a little misguided. The money's gonna come, but your heart and soul has to be one of wanting to be of service to people, genuinely making a difference in somebody else's life.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
As a new business owner in coaching, developing trust in strangers so that they will want to work with you is a long process. Another overarching challenge is that coaching is not regulated, so anybody can call themselves a coach without knowledge of the fundamentals.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity is huge, it's probably the biggest. Other values are empathy and kindness.
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