Melissa Roa is a Career Coach, Entrepreneur, and People Development Specialist dedicated to empowering professionals and businesses to reach their full potential. As the Founder of Coaching Close to You, she has helped over 900 clients successfully navigate career transitions, interview preparation, leadership development, and personal branding, enabling them to secure new job opportunities and build confidence in their professional journeys.

With more than 14 years of experience working across multiple countries, Melissa has successfully adapted to diverse industries, including Big Tech, startups, and corporate environments. Her background in career coaching, customer success, and corporate training has given her a deep understanding of global job markets and the skills needed to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.

Melissa believes that success is not about luck, but about preparation, self-awareness, and continuous learning. Through strategic coaching, storytelling techniques, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), she helps professionals unlock their potential, overcome self-doubt, and position themselves for success in highly competitive industries.

At Coaching Close to You, Melissa and her team offer tailored career coaching solutions, specializing in career transitions, leadership development, corporate workshops, layoff support, and personal branding strategies. Whether you’re an individual looking to grow your career or a company aiming to develop high-performing teams, Melissa provides the insights and tools necessary for long-term success.

Specialties:

Career Coaching & Professional Transitions

Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

Job Search Strategies & Interview Preparation

Corporate Training & Employee Engagement

Layoff Support & Career Consulting

Personal Branding & LinkedIn Optimization

Dan Potts is a seasoned career coach with over 14 years of experience working with clients from all corners of the globe. He takes a collaborative, creative, and open-ended approach to help his clients explore their passions, lead fulfilling lives, and reach their full potential as both professionals and individuals.

As a business leader, Dan has worked with clients across various industries and has extensive experience in recruiting for global businesses. This gives him a unique insight into the hiring process and profile building, ensuring that his clients receive real-world insights into their professional journeys and get the most value out of their programmes.

Dan's commitment to his clients is unwavering, and his guarantee is that he will work tirelessly to help them achieve excellence with positivity, realism, optimism, and a willingness to support their success. If you're ready for a change, Dan will be right there with you, offering his expertise in career, mindset, and life coaching.

Joel Dupont has led teams and multimillion projects for more than 15 years in blue chip organizations in Europe and Australia. He is a Technical Account Manager at Guidewire. Having worked with multiple and diverse teams, he has learned what makes teams and businesses high performing and exceptional. He believes the soul of a business is its culture. That is the one thing that will make or break a business long term and it all starts and ends at the door of the organization, it all starts and ends with the hiring process.

Joel can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dupontjoel/

Daragh Knox is a certified provider of business and career coaching & mentoring services based on world class techniques. He takes pride in forging strong relationships with his clients and uses the well-founded business experience of 25 years working in market leading national and international companies.

In the very early stages of his professional career while on his work experience, he was given a role in the purchasing department of a large pharmaceutical company. Although he had very little experience at the time, he discovered that that he could use his sense of purpose and desire to fulfil his potential and to contribute strongly to the company’s goals.

His career grew from there. In it, he successfully navigated several career transitions; voluntary and involuntary redundancies, promotions, organizational changes, and establishing his own business.

He holds accreditation from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA), the International Association of Professional Coaching & Mentoring and the University of Limerick.

You can find out more at www.daraghknox.com