About Melissa
Melissa Eisler, MA, MCC
Executive Coach & Leadership Development Consultant
As a master certified executive coach (MCC), founder of Wide Lens Leadership, and Partner at Evolution, Melissa Eisler helps senior leaders navigate complexity, scale impact, lead with intention, and build aligned, high-performing teams. Her approach combines strategic advisory support with deep inquiry, candid feedback, and a results-driven coaching process to help executives, entrepreneurs, and teams identify blind spots, communicate with greater impact, deepen emotional intelligence, and cultivate cultures of trust and accountability.
Over the past decade, she has coached hundreds of leaders through immediate leadership challenges and long-term growth. Her clients span C-suite executives, senior management, and entrepreneurs across diverse industries and sectors—from startups, B-Corps, and nonprofits to Fortune 500s. Clients describe her as a trusted and empowering coach, strategic and creative advisor, and direct yet compassionate communicator—with a warm way of helping them address “undiscussables” and drive meaningful change.
She specializes in executive coaching and immersive leadership offsites and workshops focused on values-driven leadership, productive communication, feedback-rich cultures, resilience through change, and sustainable performance. Her tailored, holistic approach integrates a wide range of leadership frameworks, 360s, assessments, and modalities like group dynamics processes, mindfulness, and somatics.
Before coaching, she spent 15 years in senior corporate leadership, reporting directly to the C-suite and leading high-performing teams through IPOs, mergers, acquisitions, and high-growth phases. That lived experience gives her a deep appreciation for the pressures leaders face—and the practical insight to help them lead through complexity and change.
One of her favorite quotes is from Albert Einstein: “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.” Her goal is to help leaders expand their perspectives, unlock new possibilities, and take meaningful action. Her curiosity about human behavior, leadership, and cultural dynamics has shaped her coaching philosophy—deeply influenced by her travels to 35+ countries and commitment to continuous learning.
She holds a Master’s in Organizational Leadership from the University of San Diego, a BA in Journalism/Communication from Lehigh University, a Master Coach Credential (MCC) through the ICF, and is a registered mentor coach. She is also working on her second book on building a culture of feedback in modern organizations.
On a personal note, she has a passion for transformation and personal development. Her own experiences and transitions through loss, careers, grief, and relationships have fueled a desire to step out of her comfort zone, overcome her fears, and search for meaning—and help others do the same.
An East Coaster at heart, Melissa now calls San Diego home. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, traveling, playing guitar, and outdoor adventures with her husband and young son.
Certifications
She is a master certified executive coach by the International Coach Federation (MCC) and certified by Newfield Network. She also holds an MA in Organizational Leadership, is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, a certified meditation and mindfulness instructor, registered yoga teacher (E-RYT 200), and enjoys leading workshops, trainings, keynotes, and retreats about mindfulness and leadership. She is also certified in a variety of leadership and 360 assessments.
Her Clients
Her clients have included leaders at UCSD Health Sciences, Qualcomm, Dr. Bronner’s, Quest Diagnostics, Takeda, Lykos Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, and UPS, among others. Her work spans industries and sectors—from startups, B-Corps, and non-profits to Fortune 500s, and across diverse industries, including technology, biotech, finance, legal, higher education, CPG, government, ecommerce, and media.
You can read more about what her past and current clients have to say about having her as a coach on her testimonials page.
Coaching Approach
Melissa provides customized solutions for leaders and organizations. This approach includes assessments, feedback, and inquiry to generate insights and a development plan based on strengths, needs, and gaps. While the specifics of the approach look different for each leader, she and her clients always focus on integrating their states of “being” and "doing.” When these two align, profound leaps in leadership become possible.
Specialties & Strengths
Executive coaching, leadership development, leadership training & facilitation, team building, mindful leadership, experiential learning, leadership coaching, Enneagram in business, resilience, group dynamics, navigating change and VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity), systems & strategic thinking, building a culture of feedback and accountability, effective communication
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Articles by Melissa
A both/and leadership mindset can lead you to more informed decisions, more collaborative teams, and stronger relationships and results. Keep reading to learn six tips on how to embrace this productive and collaborative mindset as a leader.
You know you have to give someone feedback, but the idea of giving constructive feedback has you in knots. What’s the best way to say what you need to say so it is productive for everyone? Learn four frameworks for feedback conversations you can use to deliver feedback in a candid, compassionate, and productive way.
We all have the same 24 hours in each day. You must use your time wisely – in a way that meets your strategic initiatives at work and your personal goals simultaneously. Creating and communicating strategic boundaries is the best way to focus your time and resources on the high-impact, mission-critical efforts and activities that matter to you most.
Most people think of manipulation and deceit when they think of power at work. However, power is often misunderstood – and it is not inherently bad. The more you understand power, the more power is accessible to you. Learn about 11 types of power and find tips on how to gain more power at work.
We must cleanse our organizations of the negative stigma of direct communication, and replace it with the sense of generosity. Saying something that needs to be said is a gift that strengthens people, teams, and organizations if done with care. Here is how to balance compassion and candor in your communication.
When most people are listening, their minds are elsewhere. By contrast, active listening is when you place all of your focus on the speaker – paying attention to and practicing 12 distinct skills. Find out what they are and how to practice them – to establish trust in your relationships, build psychological safety on your teams, and deepen your connections both personally and professionally.
While feeling like a fraud is a common problem for high achievers, new research suggests there are some surprising benefits to imposter syndrome, or rather, to imposter thoughts. Here are the notable benefits, as well as some strategies you can take to strike the right balance between confidence and humility.
Psychological safety is the secret ingredient that sets highly effective teams apart from those that are average or under-performing and the reason some teams retain long-term superstars, while others have high turnover. Once you understand what it is and why it’s so important in team cultures, you can begin to take some steps to foster more of it in your organization and environment, and ultimately create a team everyone wants to work for.
Moving too fast can cause errors, self-centeredness, misunderstandings, lack of innovation and strategic thinking, chaos, and so much more. Yet … it is what we do all the time. Here are six slow-down strategies for fast movers that will leave you more productive and engaged.
For most people – uncertainty is stressful. If you’re less tolerant to the unknown and changing conditions of life, there are ways to build your capacity to manage uncertainty. In other words, you can learn to meet uncertainty with resilience. Here are nine strategies to try…
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Certified by Newfield Network and the International Coach Federation (ICF). Member of the Forbes Coaches Council.
