Melinda Maddock
Melinda is a Director of Madfinch Pty Ltd, a small Tasmanian company that provides consulting and film production services. Before becoming a consultant she built a career as a political adviser. As Chief of Staff to Ministers, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Premier, and a senior executive in government, she used her influence to shape public policy, political strategy, campaigns and organisational culture. Now she teaches what she knows about politics and power to people in organisations and communities who want to make change for good.
As well as a BA with Honours in Political Science, Melinda is a workshop facilitator and trainer in the Enneagram system of personality typing. Her professional learning includes Transpersonal Coaching and Facilitating (Institute of Human Excellence 2017), Foundations of Coaching (Coaching Australia 2018), and u.lab Leading from the Emerging Future (MIT Presencing Institute 2016 and 2017). It also includes Cultural Transformation Tools (Barrett Values Centre 2015), Creative Facilitation Training (Creative Facilitation 2019) and Co-Design Training (Think Human 2020). In 2016 she received a Foundations of Directorship course scholarship through the Tasmanian Government Board Diversity Scholarship Program.
Melinda is a trainer of plain English with 26TEN. She is Deputy Chair of the Ogilvie High School Association and was a founding member of the Board of The Story Island Project.
Her clients include:
Melinda is a Director of Madfinch Pty Ltd, a small Tasmanian company that provides consulting and film production services. Before becoming a consultant she built a career as a political adviser. As Chief of Staff to Ministers, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Premier, and a senior executive in government, she used her influence to shape public policy, political strategy, campaigns and organisational culture. Now she teaches what she knows about politics and power to people in organisations and communities who want to make change for good.
As well as a BA with Honours in Political Science, Melinda is a workshop facilitator and trainer in the Enneagram system of personality typing. Her professional learning includes Transpersonal Coaching and Facilitating (Institute of Human Excellence 2017), Foundations of Coaching (Coaching Australia 2018), and u.lab Leading from the Emerging Future (MIT Presencing Institute 2016 and 2017). It also includes Cultural Transformation Tools (Barrett Values Centre 2015), Creative Facilitation Training (Creative Facilitation 2019) and Co-Design Training (Think Human 2020). In 2016 she received a Foundations of Directorship course scholarship through the Tasmanian Government Board Diversity Scholarship Program.
Melinda is a trainer of plain English with 26TEN. She is Deputy Chair of the Ogilvie High School Association and was a founding member of the Board of The Story Island Project.
Her clients include:
