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Stephanie Melodia

Accelerate innovation and entrepreneurial growth with Stephanie Melodia, keynote speaker and innovation strategist. Stephanie works with ambitious teams in sales, marketing, and innovation as well as scale-up executives, delivering practical frameworks for opportunity identification and resilience. UK Top 20 Female Founder featured in Forbes, speaking at Web Summit and collaborating with Coca-Cola and LinkedIn.

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Stephanie Melodia

Stephanie Melodia

London, United Kingdom

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Stephanie Melodia's biography

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  • Top UK female founder and entrepreneurship expert
  • Host of UK Top 20 business podcast Strategy & Tragedy
  • Former CEO of award-winning marketing agency Bloom
Stephanie Melodia is a keynote speaker and entrepreneurship expert ranked among the UK's Top 20 Most Influential Female Founders. She helps organisations bridge the gap between entrepreneurial agility and enterprise scale. Stephanie hosts the UK Top 20 Business Show Strategy & Tragedy and advises MBA students in Entrepreneurship with Oneday. Stephanie founded and led the award-winning marketing consultancy Bloom, scaling the business to six figures and guiding it through the global pandemic. Her work and thought leadership has been featured in Forbes, Sifted, and The Independent. Stephanie brings practical experience from both sides of the innovation equation. She has navigated the uncertainties of building from zero whilst collaborating with global brands like Soho House, Qatar Airways, LinkedIn, and WeTransfer. This dual perspective helps corporate venture teams adopt entrepreneurial frameworks without abandoning corporate strengths. Stephanie is also an in-demand host and speaker at major international conferences, including Web Summit, Women In Tech, Ideas Fest, and TechBBQ, delivering research-backed insights combined with real-world stories that teams can implement immediately. Audiences gain actionable frameworks for spotting opportunities, building resilience, and scaling without breaking systems. Her signature talk, Hacking Luck, provides specific strategies for stacking the odds in your favour. Participants leave with practical next steps for fostering creativity and driving innovation within their organisations. Book Stephanie to equip your teams with the entrepreneurial mindset needed to compete in today's market.

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Topics, sessions and talks

Hacking Luck: Resilience Redefined
Stephanie Melodia explores why some individuals and teams seem to create opportunity while others struggle to find it. Drawing on behavioural research, founder case studies, and her own experience building and scaling companies, she challenges assumptions about risk, resilience, and success. Stephanie’s energetic and direct style brings structure to uncertainty, showing how perception, decision-making, and strategic positioning shape outcomes, so organisations become better at spotting and acting on opportunities that others miss.
Creativity In The Era Of AI
Stephanie Melodia looks at how artificial intelligence is reshaping creative and commercial work, and why human originality now matters more than ever. Drawing on her experience across marketing, technology, and entrepreneurship, she explores where automation adds value and where it falls short. Stephanie connects emerging tools with practical decision-making, so leaders and teams better understand how to stay relevant, distinctive, and in demand as roles and industries evolve.
Hack The Hustle: How To Scale Without Breaking
Stephanie Melodia addresses the hidden costs of rapid growth, from burnout to operational drag. Through real examples from agency leadership and venture-backed start-ups, she shows how sustainable scale depends on smarter systems, clearer priorities, and disciplined execution. Stephanie brings a candid and energetic perspective to what actually drives progress, helping organisations grow revenue and capability without sacrificing people, culture, or long-term stability.
Entrepreneurship For Enterprise
Stephanie Melodia draws on her dual experience in start-ups and global brands to explore how entrepreneurial thinking can thrive inside large organisations. She examines how risk, speed, and ownership are often constrained by structure, and how to redesign them without losing control. Stephanie’s practical frameworks reveal how corporate teams can test, learn, and build new ventures more effectively, strengthening innovation pipelines and commercial outcomes.
How To Build Teams That Innovate
Stephanie Melodia shows why creativity is not a soft skill but a core driver of performance. Using insights from marketing, leadership, and venture growth, she explains how environments, incentives, and behaviour shape original thinking. Stephanie’s direct and engaging approach helps organisations understand how to unlock diverse ideas and turn them into action, so teams collaborate better, move faster, and generate solutions that competitors struggle to copy.

Why we recommend booking Stephanie

Stephanie Melodia blends real-world startup grit with enterprise expertise, delivering actionable strategies that empower teams to innovate and scale with confidence. Book Stephanie now to give your organisation the tools and mindset needed to thrive in a fast-changing business landscape.

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Testimonials

It was a great joy to work with Steph, both on a professional and on a human level. This keynote speech was absolutely fantastic - so much energy, enthusiasm, interaction, and motivation. We all got really, really positive feedback from the attendees. Thank you for coming to Bolzano, for your passion, your inspiration, and just being an inspirational woman!

Sonja Tetter

Producer, NOI TechPark

Steph was a fantastic MC at Web Summit Lisbon. She brought such great energy to the stage and really connected with the audience!

Todd Hansen

Executive Producer, Web Summit

The drop-off rate was non-existent - never heard before! Everyone found the session engaging, informative, and insightful.

Rupert Englander

Marketing Director, WeTransfer

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Stephanie Melodia structures sessions around founder case studies and behavioural research, combining real-world examples from agency leadership and venture-backed start-ups with actionable frameworks that participants can apply directly to their organisations.
What topics does Stephanie Melodia specialise in?
Stephanie Melodia speaks on opportunity creation and resilience, human creativity in the context of AI, and sustainable business scaling. She is ranked among the UK's Top 20 Most Influential Female Founders and founded and led the award-winning marketing consultancy Bloom, with work featured in Forbes, Sifted, and The Independent.
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