Melissa Stokes is a veteran of more than 5 years in project contracting within small businesses. She has a successful track record of helping small business owners make progress on their most important goals and strategic projects.
Melissa’s approach is client-centered and highly-adaptable. She starts every project with gathering deep information into a client’s problems, goals, available resources, and leadership style; before recommending any solutions. She partners with her clients to make strategic decisions on prioritizing their projects and initiatives. Depending on each client’s needs and preferences, Melissa offers both project completion accountability checks and contracted project leadership/execution services.
During her time as a consultant, Melissa has worked with a variety of clients - from solopreneurs to highly scalable startups.
She has helped clients with setting up foundational elements of their business [business plan, market strategy, license, branding, websites, technical infrastructure], scaling up [goal prioritization, sales programming, process optimization, technical solution implementations], and navigating key growth transitions [organizational planning, hiring, training]. Many of her clients have significantly increased their profits as an outcome of their projects–in addition to other benefits.
Melissa’s work in consulting developed naturally out of her business relationships, demonstrated leadership skills, and desire to help people on her network. She has enjoyed full-time employment with a variety of large and small organizations, including non-profit organizations and start-ups since 2012. Here, she developed rich experience in leadership and business growth. She practiced skills in analysis, solution ideation, business strategy, decision-making, negotiations and strategic communication. She has led sales operations, product development, customer service teams, leadership groups, and worked closely with executive teams.
In 2022, Melissa officially founded Melissa Stokes Consulting, LLC. although she had long established herself as an effective consultant. Melissa’s current clients affectionately know her as “The innovative gal who can get any project done”. She prides herself on delivering the right solutions for the client, on-time and on-budget. It is also important to Melissa that she collaborates with supporting staff to make sure solutions are integrated into existing structures and received as welcomed new norms.
She is excited to leverage her experience and expand her influence by offering contracting services to Small Business Owners on a broader scale
Melissa is a graduate of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ with degrees in Education and Organizational Psychology. She remains active with Project Management industry standards and learning opportunities.
Melissa is a proud wife and mother of her goldendoodle, Rylee. Her family resides in Winston-Salem, NC. In her personal time she enjoys being outdoors running, hiking or bicycling, connecting with her local community, and working on interior styling projects.
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