Melissa Scott

About Melissa Scott

A registered member of the Association for Talent Development (ATD) with Designing Learning, E-learning Instructional Design, and Master Trainer Certifications, I have 11 years of experience as a member of the team hired to pioneer a comprehensive Career Development program for a $4 billion General Contractor, the largest in the Southeast. A proficient, creative, professional writer and presenter for the entirety of my career, including 27 years as an advertising copywriter, I leveraged those skills in my current position toward:• Both virtual (Zoom) and in-person instructional design and facilitation • E-learning (Camtasia, Articulate,) instructional design and delivery • Broad scope project management, including New Employee Orientation, Role-Specific Onboarding Curriculum design and delivery, and Leadership Development Initiative design and deliveryIn addition, I am an administrator of the corporate Learning Management System (LMS).I want to help employees thrive in their careers by:• Aligning individual goals with corporate goals • Acclimating them to the unique corporate culture and purpose• Creating, delivering, evaluating, and tracking the role-specific and personal development training opportunities they require to grow, to be engaged and, therefore, succeed• Engaging them in discretionary and innovative enterprises to prosper the individual, the organization, and their communities at large• Leading them to provide more value to and derive more value from their organizations My areas of passion and expertise are onboarding, employee engagement, leadership development, and talent management. The goal of my work is to encourage employee retention and, consequently, to save companies the money and productivity lost in recruiting.

Experience

1. Leadership Develoment Manager

   Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC

   Jan 2026 — Present

Education

• UNC School of Media and Journalism

  Bachelor's degree, Broadcast Journalism

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor’s Degree, Journalism - Broadcast Sequence

  1976 — 1980

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Journalism - Broadcast Sequence

Skills

• Management
• Advertising
• Webinar Development
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Training
• Asynchronous Learning
• Public Speaking
• Virtual Facilitation
• Event Planning
• Contract Negotiation
• Lectora
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Leadership
• Travel Planning
• Employee Orientations
• Social Media
• Camtasia
• Employee Relations
• Recruiting
• Research
• Marketing Strategy
• Leadership Development
• Synchronous Learning
• Indesign
• Process Scheduler
• Hospitality
• Project Management
• Employee Training
• Workshop Facilitation
• Instructional Design
• Leankit Project Management Tool
• Professional Development Programs