With her entrepreneurial spirit and relentless drive, Melissa Clark-Reynolds is in a league of her own. Melissa has had a global outlook since an early age, spending her formative years in the US, completing postgraduate study abroad and working in Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and the UK.

Melissa is an experienced entrepreneur with a history of successful start-ups - she established her first company in 1992 and hasn’t looked back. She also contributes widely in the international accelerator community, with founder / mentor roles in London, Singapore and NZ. This has led to her representing NZ at the Global Accelerator Network meeting and at the APEC forum to ‘encourage women entrepreneurs’.

'There is only one thing on which virtually everything else in our lives depends. That is the quality of our thinking. Everything stems from this. Including the passionate bursting of our hearts and the inward non-movements of contemplation. The human being begins each action, each feeling with a thinking process. When that is gone, we are gone. Nothing deserves our care, our time, more than this.' Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind'.

A group of twenty or so network members recently met up at old street's Ozone Cafe to discuss our latest read, Nancy Kline's, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind. 

We started off the session with a round of what the network and bookclub means to each of us.  Having utilised the networkfor various purposes over the years (networking, advice, learning), I always love to hear how other woman have been impacted and helped by the network too.

Adele guides business owners and entrepreneurs to achieve extraordinary and sustainable business growth and success. She has been a Business Growth and Peak Performance Consultant/Mentor for over 20 years and is a Chartered Accountant by qualification too – don’t hold that against her! Now a Personal Branding Strategist, Adele can help you (the person) to stand head and shoulders above your competitors in your market and she has recently finished writing a book on personal branding that will be published in the next month or so.

Adele works with visionary, adventurous, persistent and courageous business owners and entrepreneurs (start-ups, scale-ups and established medium sized businesses), people who want success in their businesses or lives and are prepared to do the work to achieve their vision.