
Melanie Hunter Yell
Business Coach & Advisor
Grow your business with a commercially driven business coach & advisor.
Commercial growth strategy and coaching for founders, entrepenaurs and senior leaders who are ready to scale with greater clarity and confidence.





This is more than business coaching.
It's 30 years of big brand thinking applied to your business.
As a strategic growth advisor and business coach, I help ambitious founders, entrepreneurs and senior leaders scale with greater clarity, confidence and commercial discipline.
Three decades. Global brands. Start-ups built from nothing. Scale-ups that needed to stop spinning and start growing.
I’ve been the Chief Marketing Officer in the room when the stakes were high, the budgets were real and the expectation was measurable growth. I’ve seen what separates the businesses that scale successfully from those that stall.
The answer is rarely another collection of marketing tactics.
It is understanding what is really happening in your business, choosing the right commercial priorities and building a clear strategy around them.
I’ve worked across telecommunications, financial services, insurtech, fintech, leisure and e-commerce. One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned is how much one industry can teach another. The principles behind sustainable growth are often universal, even though the way they should be applied to your business is entirely individual.
I get under the bonnet of your business to understand its growth engine and identify the levers with the greatest potential from positioning, pricing and acquisition to conversion, customer lifetime value and margin.
Together, we turn that insight into a focused strategy that moves the numbers without wasting your budget, exhausting your team or compromising your brand.
I believe in clarity, consistency and momentum.
I bring proven big-brand thinking to ambitious businesses, without the corporate complexity or big-brand budgets. No gatekeeping and no generic formula: just experienced commercial thinking, translated into practical decisions for your business.
With the right strategy, you know what to focus on, why it matters and how you will measure progress.
You can move faster, build a stronger business and grow with greater confidence, as both an entrepreneur and a leader.
Let’s get to work.
Ways to work with me.

Coaching

Advisory

Courses
My Approach
Good coaching should create the space to think.
It should also provide enough challenge to move beyond the assumptions, habits and pressures that keep you stuck.
Our work will be grounded in your real context: your role, your business, your team, your stakeholders and the results you are expected to deliver.
Depending on your needs, our sessions may combine:
· Strategic reflection and problem-solving
· Commercial analysis and decision support
· Leadership development
· Stakeholder and board preparation
· Practical frameworks and diagnostic tools
· Honest challenge and experienced perspective
· Clear actions and accountability between sessions
There is no generic script and no expectation that every client needs the same answer.
The objective is to help you become a clearer thinker, a stronger decision-maker and a more commercially effective leader.