Meet the melissa doman, LLC team
Our team’S mission:
To provide skills-based education that helps companies, leaders, and individuals learn how to effectively talk about mental health, communication, and team dynamics at work. Mel cares to her core about this mission and has been fortunate enough to find a team that truly does too. She wants to make a growing impact in the World of Work, and couldn’t do it without the incredible people mentioned below who support her business, so she can do that.
Her team management philosophy is this: “I get out of the way so my team can do the great things and what they do best. They have such incredible skills that I don’t, so when they advise me, I listen. They have a deep care for this mission and my work. The resulting trust, collaboration, and fun we have is what I always dreamed of having in my growing business - and I feel deeply fortunate that it became a reality.”
MEET THE TEAM
ILANA MORRIS, MA
Business & Operations Manager
Ilana has been instrumental in supporting and helping to scale Melissa Doman LLC by setting up and monitoring our customer-relationship management platform, ensuring business processes are optimized & automated, and that clients have a seamless experience from inquiry to delivery. She’s also known as ‘The Goddess of Operations & Mel Whisperer’.
After working as a teacher, in school operations, and data management for over a decade, Ilana embarked on a new venture, establishing her own business as a virtual assistant and digital business manager. Her educational background includes a B.A. in Political Science & Spanish with a minor in English from the University of Delaware and an M.A. in Education from NYU, specializing in Spanish as a Foreign Language and English as a Second Language.
Currently residing in the Greater Boston Area, Ilana enjoys a variety of hobbies outside of her professional life, including gardening, spending time with her dogs (Ziti and Bella), and even participating in circus classes.
AURELIA HACK, MA
Instructional Design Associate
Aurelia was fundamental in helping to bring Mel’s collective work to life by creating the upcoming Mental Health at Work Conversational Literacy™ for Leaders course. Having originally served as Melissa Doman LLC’s first-ever intern for her master’s degree, Aurelia smashed her internship and was hired onto the team not long after! Aurelia has a deep understanding of Mel’s work, from her pivotal role in creating the course, and her educational, professional, and personal experience. Mel lovingly refers to her as “Mel #2”.
Aurelia is an occupational and organizational psychologist and an expert in mental health at work. Aurelia holds a B.Sc. Psychology and a M.Sc. Psychology from the University of Hagen in Germany. She is trilingual and fluent in English, German, and French. Aurelia is also a published author and wrote a book about depression in German that was released in 2019.
Based on her own story and professional background, Aurelia’s passion is to create healthy working environments that raise awareness for mental health and mental illness and empower people to establish health-promoting structures, processes, and organizational cultures to support that mission. Aurelia resides in Munich, Germany, loves to travel, and tries a new hobby every year!
MELISSA DORSKY
Content & Marketing Coordinator
A name-twin match made in heaven (thanks to a mutual connection!), Melissa manages Mel's monthly content and marketing. She uses her passionate and fiery Leo energy to tap into the Mental Health at Work topics that matter most. Melissa puts her creative talents to work to constantly breathe new life into the marketing materials you know and love - like. Mel’s monthly website newsletter, LinkedIn newsletter, monthly blog posts, the swanky new design for workshop materials, and more!
Prior to supporting Melissa Doman LLC, she bid her 12-year corporate career in business operations program management adieu and began focusing on her passion for marketing and the arts by becoming the Canva Queen and empowering purpose-driven businesses. Melissa also holds a B.S. in Corporate Finance & Accounting from Bentley University and a Nonprofit Management Certificate from Framingham State University.
Melissa lives in Greater Boston with her incredible firefighter husband Brian and their fur kids (pups Cooper + Finn and cats Oscar + Lilly). She also has her own crochet business that makes dapper dog bowties! You can learn more about her doggy duds line @madcozycreations.
KELLY LIDDICK
Bookkeeper
Kelly provides phenomenal and timely bookkeeping support, invoicing, and payment processing for the Melissa Doman LLC team as a representative from Honestly Bookkeeping, a customer-focused mission-driven bookkeeping firm that helps small businesses thrive. Kelly completed the Business Bookkeeper program certification and is certified in Xero and Gusto accounting software programs.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Business Administration from Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
Kelly resides in Pennsylvania and loves to travel, read, and get out in nature as much as she can.
Meet lola
Head of Barking Services
Meet Lola, Mel’s fur baby, and our team’s spirited and ever-enthusiastic Head of Barking Services. Bursting with energy, she ensures Mel’s office is never too quiet, is always on the lookout for a good play session, and loves to give her unsolicited opinions on team calls. Whether she's chasing her beloved banana or pickle toys, Lola brings a blend of sweetness and spice to the team, keeping everyone on their toes and full of smiles.
ABOUT THE OWNER & CEO — MELISSA DOMAN
Melissa Doman, MA is an Organizational Psychologist, Former Clinical Mental Health Therapist, & Author of, Yes, You Can Talk About Mental Health at Work (Here’s Why And How To Do It Really Well).
She’s been featured as a subject matter expert speaker at SXSW, in editorial features for CNN, Vogue, NPR, the BBC, CNBC, Inc., and in LinkedIn’s 2022 Top 10 Voices for Mental Health and Big Ideas 2023 List.
Melissa uses her unique hybrid background of education and field experience in both clinical and organizational psychology to translate complex ideas into simple actionable knowledge to equip companies, individuals, and leaders to have constructive conversations about mental health at work, team dynamics, and communication in the workplace.
