The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership | Dr. Krister Lowe

This week on the show, Melanie Seymour, former Head of Budapest for BlackRock now head of Global Client Services, joins me Carissa Bub as we talk about how she led the building of BlackRock’s newest organisation and centre for innovation, scaling from zero to 500 hires in less than two years. We spoke while Melanie was in Budapest, a place she has fallen in love with, a few months before she accepted her new role at Blackrock. Melanie and I discuss: • Her previous experience building and selling her first financial services business in the UK • How she set out to create a team that thinks differently and is capable of innovation • The challenges she faced in the set up and build out of the organisation • How she set out to create a team and team of teams culture • Making the new organisation an integral part of the global organisation • Her passion for creating inclusive modern organisations • Advice for team coaches working with scale ups and global organisations • Beyond teams, the critical importance of c