Empowering leaders to create cultures where teams thrive.

Through leadership, strengths, and culture coaching, we help teams focus on doing what they do best — and become people others want to follow.

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Melanie Massey, founder of MoCo Leadership, in her signature deep teal

Hi, I'm Melanie!

14 years

John Maxwell certified coach — since 2012

1 of 10

John Maxwell “Leading & Lifting” DNA Culture Award — chosen from 60,000 coaches

31 years

Entrepreneur empowering others

14 years

StrengthsFinder Educator

100+

Team members grown firsthand

200+

Teams served by MoCo

What we do

Training to create strong mindsets, leaders, cultures, and teams.

We encourage self-awareness through StrengthsFinder, self-assessment, and knowledge of the Enneagram.

Leadership Training

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Everyone leads someone.

Leadership is influence — not a title, not a position.

Melanie with John Maxwell at a John Maxwell Team event — Melanie with John Maxwell

Does this sound like your team?

Is bickering and tension wearing your people down?

Do your managers act like bosses — instead of leaders?

Tired of watching good people walk out the door?

You're in the right place. Let's build it together.

Melanie uses hand-lettered slides tocustomize each presentation.

At work, what are you doing when you feel the most joyful?

Value: a person's principles or standards of behavior — one's judgement of what's important in life.

Personal values — family, fun, freedom, creativity, courage.

Joyfully use your gifts to brighten the lives of others.

We all see and process the world differently.

Donald O. Clifton: What will happen when we think about what is right with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them?

How do others feel after spending time with you?

Engaged, disengaged, and actively disengaged employees.

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Coaches and leaders — you can request customized quotes and slides for your own presentations too.

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Melanie Massey

Founder · MoCo Leadership

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Meet Melanie

A leader who built it before she taught it.

For 31 years, Melanie has grown Melanie Massey Physical Therapy from a single room with one employee into five clinics and a team of more than one hundred. She learned leadership the way it sticks — in the trenches of building something real. She doesn't just talk the talk, but she has also walked the walk of leadership and team building.

Melanie has been a certified John Maxwell coach, speaker, and trainer since 2012. She believes everyone deserves to be led well; therefore, she decided to work on her business rather than in it by developing her own leadership skills. In 2018, she was awarded one of the ten John Maxwell DNA Culture Awards for “Leading and Lifting Others”, chosen from 60,000 coaches worldwide. Today, through MoCo Leadership, she helps growth-minded leaders build teams that thrive — through mastermind groups, workshops, retreats, and even the occasional art project, provided on site or at her MoJoy Studio in West Monroe, Louisiana.

“My mission is to inspire leaders to reproduce leaders through a foundation of strengths based teamwork.”

Personal Core Values

FamilyFreedomFunCreativity

CourageGenerosityGratitude

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You are fully resourced.

Every gift your team needs is already in the room — our work is helping them see it.

Who we serve

Organizations of all sizes who have teammates at all levels who desire a positive work place.

Melanie starts with your leadership team, then works department by department — surfacing what's really going on and teaching every group to collaborate through their strengths. The result: teams that communicate better, leaders people actually want to follow, and good people who stay.

Melanie with the Children's Coalition for Northeast Louisiana team, holding a hand-painted Educate, Advocate, Care sign — With the Children's Coalition for Northeast Louisiana — hand-painted sign and all.Educate. Advocate. Care.

In the room with MoCo

This is what training day feels like…

fun, laughter, real breakthroughs, and bonding

Melanie with a leadership training class around the table — Every session ends with a room that feels like *this* — a team, not an audience.

The night Melanie's whole team took the stage — The Greatest Showmanat the local lip-sync battle, “This is Me” shirts and all. They won. Standing ovation.

Strengths Bingo underway at Opelousas General leadership training — Strengths Bingo at Opelousas General — yes, there are referee shirts. Training should be fun.

“When they came to the credit union I didn't have a clue what we were getting into! The results were surprisingly amazing! I became more self aware, and our team did as well! I love our team and if you love yours you should call these guys!!! They are AWEsome!!!!!”
— Courtney Yutzy, credit union team member · Facebook review

“Nothing of significance is ever achieved without the help of others” — Melanie

Leaders at these companies have learned the value of strengths-based teamwork:

Blue Cross Blue ShieldChase BankGraphic Packaging InternationalUniversity of Louisiana MonroeCity of West MonroeOuachita Parish School SystemNortheast Delta Human ServicesCommuniHealth ServicesInterMountain ManagementMonroe–West Monroe CVBEnvoy MortgageOuachita Valley Federal Credit UnionOpelousas General Health SystemFirst United Methodist ChurchDisneyChrist Church

…and dozens more across business, healthcare, government, schools, and churches.