Business lifecycle firm Melo has come together from the merger of three acclaimed and highly experienced businesses, who together specialise in helping financial planning firms to grow and make progress, recruit the right personnel and for their owners to secure a great exit.

At launch, Melo has made a big splash in the financial planning community, and rapidly become known as go to experts in guiding, educating and supporting firms that want to be a cut above the rest.

Here Philip Calvert interviews Group CEO Victoria Hicks and discovers the thinking behind forming Melo and just what it takes to make a great financial planning firm.

Melo also supports LifeTalk - the original online community for financial advisers, which IFAs and financial planners use to network, share best practice, exchange ideas and to provide help and support to one another. Join 4,000 advisers in LifeTalk's private Facebook group here. Visit Melo here.