Contributors · Women in STEM
Guest contributor
Melanie Myles
Women in STEM
Founder, Arctic Butterfly Coaching & Consulting, Anchorage, Alaska
Melanie sits down with women in science, technology, engineering and math to hear how they built their careers, what it cost them and how they kept going.
She is a mechanical engineer with more than thirty years in engineering and operations leadership, including twelve years running operations on an eight-hundred-mile pipeline in Alaska. She led her company's pandemic response as incident commander. Today she coaches high-performing women in STEM through Arctic Butterfly Coaching & Consulting and speaks on burnout, visibility and advancement.
Every conversation she leads runs on Bellwether under her name.
What she covers
- Careers in STEMEngineers, scientists, technologists and researchers on the path from the first job to the top of the org chart, and what changed along the way.
- Leading in technical roomsBeing seen for the work, finding sponsors, and what it takes to step into leadership.
- Burnout and recoveryHow high performers notice they are running on empty, climb back out and plan for the next hard stretch.
- Building after the ladderWomen who left a corporate career in STEM to start something of their own.
Her conversations
In production
Her first conversations are being recorded now.
They publish here first, then in The Bellwether Brief. Invited to talk with her? Pick a time on her calendar.
Her own interview
I Need to Be What I Couldn’t Find
Passed over for vice president three times, she went looking for a coach who understood and couldn’t find one. So she became her.
By Bonnie Le Page · October 1, 2026
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