Melissa Noton

Executive Coach 4Thought Coaching

About

My passion for coaching and for supporting effective change management/leadership led me to start 4Thought Coaching.

Within 4Thought, as well as offering coaching/supervision/mentoring, I also provide leadership & change management consultancy.

I worked for 31yrs in the NHS in Children’s & Families Services (physical & mental health) both as a clinician, and as a senior manager/service lead, before taking retirement in 2020. I build on this background. Drawing from clinical and therapeutic skills, as well corporate, management , leadership and governance experience, i blend this with theories of leadership, change management, and effective professional growth and success to meet the required goals and achieve successful outcomes.

4Thought can also provide training packages on a variety of topics to suit your need, including leadership skills, working with difficult staff /clients, difficult conversations, supporting teams to grow, etc.
Training programmes are based on knowledge and skills gained from experience, best practice, and formal qualifications I have gained (Ba Hons, MSc, postgrad diploma in leadership & change management, Prince 2, DipHe NHS health care.

I also have a voluntary role as a Trustee for Guideposts Charity; within this I specifically draw on my NHS experience & help develop new mental health services.

Organisation

Content

Wellbeing at Work and Functional Resilience

Melissa Noton, co-Leader of B4’s Wellbeing Group, talks to the Head of Oxford Health’s Wellbeing department, Roz O’Neil, about staff pressures, their accumulative nature and the need to support a level of functional resilience, organisational agility and leadership.

Supporting young people’s mental wealth

On this episode of Let’s Talk Mental Health with Mel Noton, we’re joined by Jodie Lloyd-Jones from Oxfordshire Youth to discuss their work in the local community and the issues young people face in today’s workplace.

Children, Young Carers & COVID

Over the past year the world we once knew has become very different for all of us. We’ve all faced personal and professional challenges on a different scale and there’s no real light at the end of the tunnel. But most of us reading this will be of a certain age, we’ve lived our lives to some extent, we’ve experienced things we can, for the time being anyway, no longer experience. Not everyone can handle that, no matter how insignificant those experiences are in the grand scheme of things, they’re important to someone.