Elevate

Unlock potential.Build momentum.

Engage leaders, teams and organisations through high-value conversations that spark fresh thinking, deepen connection and turn ambition into action.

Explore how we help
Charlotte Melford facilitating a leadership event

We inspire and engage leaders and teams to elevate how they think, feel and act.

01 / HOW WE HELP

Three ways to unlock potential.

Accredited coaching and facilitation practice, underpinned by more than 20 years of senior leadership and consultancy experience.
Charlotte working at a flip chart during a facilitated session
Content-led conversations

Make the moments when people come together count.

Facilitation puts content at the heart. Elevate shapes important conversations around a clear purpose and outcome, creating clarity, alignment and energy for what comes next.

  • Leadership offsites and strategy sessions
  • Executive and board conversations
  • Leadership events and conferences
  • Alignment through change
A small group taking part in a collaborative leadership workshop
Dynamics and team development

Help leadership teams become more than the sum of their parts.

Team coaching puts dynamics and team-building at the heart. Elevate creates the trust and healthy challenge teams need to strengthen how they work together and build high performance over time.

  • Team diagnostics, psychometrics and stakeholder interviews
  • Purpose, priorities and ways of working
  • Trust, thoughtful challenge and productive conflict
  • High-impact engagement, team-building offsites and workshops
  • Training modules in presence and impact, building valuable relationships and AI-enabled leadership
Charlotte sharing a relaxed conversation with another person
Individual reflection and growth

Create space to think, grow and build positive momentum.

Confidential one-to-one coaching combines warmth and skilled practice with real commercial understanding. It helps leaders unlock their potential, navigate complexity and turn insight into meaningful action.

  • New roles and leadership transitions
  • Confidence, impact and personal growth
  • Complex decisions and relationships
  • Growing responsibility
High-value interactions

The conversations that matter.

From one-to-one coaching to large-scale facilitation, Elevate creates the conditions for people to think well together, speak honestly and find positive momentum.

When we add most value

Ambitious goals.Complex contexts.

Every senior leadership team aspires to be more than the sum of its parts. This rarely happens without investment. Elevate helps leaders and teams unlock focus, trust and positive momentum when it matters most.

New roles

Build confidence, establish priorities and move forward.

New leadership teams

Create trust, purpose and shared ownership.

Organisations in transition

Find focus through growth, change and transformation.

Challenging climates

Stay connected and make good decisions under pressure.

Complex contexts

Navigate complex organisations and uncertainty with greater clarity.

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

From context to momentum.

Some assignments begin with a focused challenge. Others become longer partnerships. Every engagement starts by understanding what will make the greatest difference.

Listen and understand

We begin with a focused conversation to understand the context, the people involved and what needs to change.

Shape the right intervention

Elevate designs the right approach, whether facilitation, team coaching, 1:1 Business coaching or a thoughtful combination.

Create lasting momentum

We turn valuable conversations into clarity, ownership and practical action, with the right follow-through to sustain progress.

For leaders looking for support, and organisations investing in the people and teams that matter most.

02 / OUR APPROACH

A trusted foundation. A positive edge.

Every engagement is shaped around the people, the challenge and the context. Warm, purposeful and commercially grounded, the aim is always to create momentum that lasts.

Experience

More than 20 years of senior leadership and consultancy experience brings commercial understanding, perspective and pragmatism to the room.

Empathy

Trust, respect and flexibility create the psychological safety for honest conversations, fresh thinking and greater ownership.

Edge

Thoughtful challenge surfaces what matters, tests assumptions and encourages the healthy conversations that help people move forward.

03 / TESTIMONIALS

Happy clients.

1:1 Business coaching
“Charlotte is a talented coach and natural thought partner. She created an environment very quickly that was professional but comfortable, with a high degree of psychological safety for inspiring and enabling conversations.”
CEO, global media business
1:1 Business coaching
“Charlotte is calm, curious and switched on. Her questions always make me think. Through our sessions I have built new understanding and confidence to shift my mindset.”
Director, financial services
Facilitation
“From the first time we met, I was struck by how skilfully Charlotte engages and reads a room. She has a rare ability to understand different perspectives, interpret the tone and bring everyone with her.

Uniting 200 people around a set of shared principles that will shape how we work together in the future is no small achievement. Yet Charlotte made the process feel engaging, inclusive and almost effortless. The feedback from the session was universally positive.

Charlotte is exceptional at what she does.”
Group Managing Director, media industry
Leadership offsites
“Charlotte led our leadership offsite with such pace and professionalism. We made significant progress in a short space of time, both on the content and in strengthening the team.

Charlotte brought real gravitas to the room and was brilliantly prepared. She is super smart, great fun to work with and made the whole experience feel focused and energising.”
Global Director, FMCG
Team coaching
“Charlotte has worked with my leadership team for more than two years. When we began, we were a newly formed group of individuals. Through a series of team development engagements and offsites, she has helped us grow into a high-performing team.

Her team coaching has played a significant role in that progress. She has also been a trusted counsel to me personally throughout.

Charlotte’s understanding of team dynamics, combined with her ability to help us establish clear organising principles, has supported us through significant change and transition.”
Director and European Lead, FMCG

References available on request.

CLIENTS

Experience across
different worlds.

Global organisations, entrepreneurial businesses and leading cultural institutions.

Bauer Media Group
BBC
Royal Shakespeare Company
Kenwood
Britvic
Chapel Down
Leithwaites
Pictet Asset Management
The Coca-Cola Company
OVO
Charlotte Melford, Founder

Coach. Facilitator. Commercial leader.

I believe potential is unlocked through the right balance of warmth, support and thoughtful challenge.

I lead Elevate, an accredited coaching and facilitation practice underpinned by formal training, the EMCC Code of Conduct and more than 20 years of senior leadership, media and management consultancy experience.

Before founding Elevate, I worked at the BBC before becoming European Managing Director at Clear, M&C Saatchi.

I bring curiosity, optimism and energy to the work. I create the trust people need to think openly, alongside the focus and challenge that helps them turn good conversations into positive momentum.

Meyler Campbell Mastered coach
EMCC Practitioner
Former European MD and Global Director
Trustee and Chair, 1552 Foundation
EMCC Global Individual Accreditation, EIA PractitionerMeyler Campbell Mastered

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