Melissa Mahler is the CEO and executive editor of People Purpose Impact and founder of Pro Player Insiders, a pioneer in athlete lifestyle media and partner of the NFL Players Association.

As an award-winning journalist and accomplished attorney, Melissa is an architect at using her platform to create change and amplify social impact. She exhibits a highly coveted proficiency for strategy and well aligned communication that has made her advise and counsel invaluable to the who’s who of CEO’s, business and government leaders and the boards of directors for several leaders of industry.

Melissa is a highly sought after strategist, lawyer and social impact entrepreneur. For over fifteen years she has advised C-Suite executives, boards of directors, investors and NGO’s in negotiating complex transactions, advancing policy objectives and managing strategic and diverse relationships. She has collaborated with management teams on emerging technologies, closed financings and commercialized technology with universities, governments and Fortune 100 companies.

Melissa believes that life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage and that together we can change the world. Among her current activities, Melissa is on the advisory board of the Brink Institute, is a delegate to the United Nations Summit on Media and Social Impact, is on the Board of Directors of the Stop Abuse Campaign and is the Senior Legal Advisor to the World Education Foundation.

With a proven pension for excellence in her craft, Melissa can best be described as the “Socially Responsible Entrepreneur’s Entrepreneur” and she continues to own this charge with an unmatched excellence in matters of communication, strategy, media and government relations, community partnerships and crisis management.

Melissa has a BS in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a minor in Political Science from Maxwell School of Citizenship and a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law.