Melanie Polke
Melanie Polke
Title
Associate Director
Firm
Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.
Office Address
Neuturmstrasse 5
Munich, 80331
Germany
Munich, 80331
Germany
Industry Specialties
Life Sciences
Technology
Arts | Culture
Functional Specialties
Business Development
General Management/CEO/COO
Human Resources
Finance and Accounting/CFO
Services
Executive Search
About Ms. Polke
Based in Munich, Melanie brings her background in strategic systems thinking and psychology to support and advise clients onleadershipassessment, development and cultural topics around change and transformation. Before joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Melanie worked at a VC-backed learningtechnologyscale-up, where she bridged board strategy with execution, managed client relations, and structured commercialoperations. Prior, she was at Miro, a global SaaS collaboration platform, where she drove strategic customer success and helped clients translate platform use into measurablebusinessvalue. Melanie began her career at Roland Berger, advising globallifesciences clients on growth, M&A, andorganizationaltransformation. Melanie earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and holds a Diplôme Grande École / Master in Management from ESCPBusinessSchool in Paris. She holds a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Certification from the Central Institute for Mental Health. rra-profile-generic-solid.png Assessmentand Benchmarking Board andCEOAdvisory C-SuiteSuccession CultureAnalytics Customer Activation and Growth Development and Transition FinanceOfficers Healthcare HumanResources Officers Private Capital Team Effectiveness Technology