Speaking coaches for storytelling
Compare 37 speaking coaches who focus on storytelling. Besides storytelling, the most common focus areas are public speaking, presentation skills, executive communication and tedx and keynotes. They most often work with professionals, executives and founders and business owners. Most charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
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Stephanie Melodia
Stephanie Melodia is a public speaking and communication coach. She helps people with message clarity, script writing, delivery and nerves. She has worked with more than 60 coaching clients. She founded an award-winning marketing consultancy and was named a Top 20 Female Founder. She now works as an international keynote speaker. Soho House, WeTransfer and NOI TechPark have brought her in to speak to their teams. She also hosts a UK business podcast for entrepreneurs.
Anne Skelly
Anne Skelly is a communication and public speaking coach who helps executives and professionals get their message across. She has more than 20 years of experience in communications. She wrote speeches for top leaders at Chevron and the U.S. Department of Defense. At Chevron she also coached senior executives, produced executive videos and ran executive events. She has coached 18 people and offers help with persuasion, influence and presentations.
Hilary Spreiter
Hilary Spreiter is a communication and leadership development coach. She helps people with public speaking, presentation skills, executive presence and nerves. She has over 13 years of experience and has coached more than 1,000 people through group trainings and individual sessions. She has worked with Stanford University, Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Chief and Lighthouse Communications. She is also a Stanford GSB coach, and her clients include people at Netflix, Airbnb and Meta.
Joel Schwartzberg
Joel Schwartzberg is a communication and public speaking coach who works with teams and individuals. He teaches them to find and sharpen their most essential points. From 2013 to 2024 he was Senior Director of Executive and Strategic Communications at a major national nonprofit. He also held senior communications roles at Nickelodeon, PBS, and Time Inc. He wrote the bestseller "Get to the Point!" and is a former state and national champion public speaker.
Michele Moreno
Michele Moreno is a communication and public speaking coach who helps leaders speak with clarity and confidence. She has run 870+ coaching sessions and given 120+ trainings and talks since 2015. Before coaching, she wrote for Tom Peters and Guy Kawasaki, acted on TV shows like The Shield and Boston Legal, and worked 10 years as a multimedia producer. She holds two ICF certifications and coaches through role-play and simple frameworks.
Nadia Romero
Nadia Romero is a public speaking and media coach. She helps tech executives, founders, and nonprofit leaders with keynotes, media interviews, and investor pitches. She is a former CNN correspondent, so she knows high-stakes settings from the inside. She has worked with groups such as the ACLU on turning data into human stories. She also offers one-on-one sessions, team training, and a full keynote program.
Debonné Nelson
Debonné Nelson is a communication and public speaking coach who also offers life, leadership and executive coaching. Debonné grew up in the Bay Area and held senior communications roles, including inaugural Head of Communications and Marketing and later Chief Communications and Marketing Officer. Debonné has written speeches for city mayors and executives and co-written keynote presentations. Debonné also holds master's degrees in public health and social work. Debonné helps clients build confidence, strategy and self-awareness.
Inès Schinazi
Inès Schinazi is a communication and public speaking coach who helps leaders and professionals tell their own story. Inès also worked at Google Brazil and Bank of New York. Inès coaches leaders from Google, Meta, Waze, Cargill and Brazil's Paralympic Committee. Inès's work centers on interviews, leadership moments and career pivots.
Carmine Gallo
Carmine Gallo is a communication coach who works with CEOs and senior leaders on storytelling, presenting and building their brand. He is also a keynote speaker and a Harvard instructor. He has written several bestselling business books, including Talk Like TED and The Bezos Blueprint, and they have been translated into more than 40 languages. He has coached leaders at 7 of the top 10 Most Admired Companies. His company also offers media training and body language training.
Kate Gladdin
Kate Gladdin is a resilience keynote speaker who works with teams and leaders on how to respond to change and pressure. She teaches a method called the 3R Strategy, which moves people from reacting to responding with purpose. She has spoken to more than 300,000 people and wrote 4 books. Her talks draw on the loss of her sister and her mum, both killed by reckless drivers, and on the question "What good can I create?"
Michale Gabriel
Michale Gabriel is a communication and leadership coach who helps leaders tell stories with more power and purpose. Michale works under the name Story by Design and is based in Costa Rica. For more than 20 years, Michale was a consultant and strategic communications partner to Boeing. Michale has led workshops, coached executives and given keynotes on the power of story to over 10,000 executives, managers and professionals worldwide.
Ashley Boroda
Ashley Boroda is a public speaking and communication trainer in London. Ashley works with executives, leaders, sales teams and business owners on presentations, pitching and negotiation. Training mixes original business thinking with performing arts techniques. Ashley created the iMA Method, a communication system with three courses. One pitching course bans PowerPoint and Keynote slides so speakers focus on real interaction with the audience. Ashley also holds an ILM Level 7 Business Growth Coach qualification.
Illens Dort
Illens Dort is a communication, public speaking and facilitation coach in Provo, Utah. He helps professionals become confident and engaging speakers. His clients include speakers, educators, business trainers and workshop facilitators. He teaches a six-session coaching program built around the Four Areas of Connection and the Four Ps of Great Communication. He holds an MBA and is certified through The John Maxwell Team.
Ariana Monell
Ariana Monell is a communication and confidence coach in Arizona. She helps business owners, high achievers, professionals, and creators speak with more confidence. She holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach credential and works as both a life coach and an executive coach. Her coaching draws on Ontology, mindfulness, and CBT principles. Her focus areas include public speaking, presence on video, executive communication, and brand storytelling.
College of Public Speaking
College of Public Speaking is a London training practice that teaches public speaking, presentation skills and train the trainer skills. It serves professionals from all fields and offers group courses and online one-to-one coaching. The team is based in King's Cross. Lead trainer Vince Stevenson belongs to the Trainers' Forum and SIETAR. Courses cover fear of public speaking, storytelling, executive presentations and leadership and management.
Cristóbal Colón
Cristóbal Colón is a communication coach and public speaking mentor based in Puerto Rico. Cristóbal also mentors podcasters. Cristóbal works in both Spanish and English. Cristóbal created The K.E.Y. Method, which helps clients find their inner fire, shape a unique message and share it in person and online. Cristóbal is a Distinguished Toastmaster. Cristóbal's podcast won the Self Improvement category at the Latin Podcast Awards in 2020 and 2021.
Oge Ikoro
Oge Ikoro is a communication and public speaking coach based in Nigeria. She helps brands and speakers share their message and build authority and confidence online. She wrote the book Online Is Your New DNA, which is about earning money from your knowledge. She also founded and hosts Speakers Vault TV, a platform that features speakers. Her signature program is called Speak to Build Authority.
London Speech Workshop
London Speech Workshop is a team of communication coaches in London. They help professionals, executives and whole teams speak with more clarity and confidence. Courses cover public speaking, presentations, storytelling, interview skills, elocution and accent softening for British English. Companies can also book training in executive presence, authentic leadership and difficult conversations. Individuals and organisations have separate course paths, so each client picks the track that fits.
Isa Martinez
Isa Martinez is a writing and communication coach who helps professional women share their transformation stories. Her focus is on people who want to write a book but have not started or finished it. She works with clients on the beliefs that keep the story hidden. Isa is based in El Salvador. Her work centers on turning a personal healing story into a message that helps others.
Cynthia Johnson
Cynthia Johnson is a career and communication coach who helps professionals shape their career story and plan their next move. She spent more than 20 years in recruiting, talent enablement and leadership at Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Nordstrom. She has recruited for technical, sales, marketing and operations roles, so she knows how hiring decisions get made behind the scenes. She also coaches clients through layoffs and job changes.
Himanshi J.
Himanshi J. is a career coach for software engineers and infrastructure engineers. Himanshi is a former Senior Software Engineer at Google, where Himanshi worked in Switzerland and India. Himanshi's teams covered Payments, Large-Scale Data Processing and Data Privacy Infrastructure. Himanshi coaches individual contributors on productivity, time management, structured communication, storytelling and executive presence. Himanshi also helps candidates prepare for coding and behavioral interviews, drawing on 75+ L3 and L4 interviews Himanshi ran.
Josh B.
Josh is a career and leadership coach for tech and customer success professionals. He has 20+ years in product management and customer success leadership at companies including Tripadvisor, Experian, StyleSeat and Vui. He has interviewed hundreds of Product Managers and Customer Success Managers as a hiring manager. He has coached 100+ students through hundreds of interviews. He helps clients prepare for interviews, negotiate offers, and step into senior roles.
Rachel League
Rachel League is an MBA admissions consultant and career coach. She helps people who want to enter investment banking, private equity, venture capital, business school, or early-stage startups. She also coaches public speaking, pitch delivery, and storytelling. Rachel worked at Citi, Morgan Stanley, a multibillion-dollar private equity fund, and a VC firm. She earned her MBA at Wharton and founded a startup that was accepted into eight accelerator programs.
Zach Arend
Zach Arend is a Professional EOS Implementer who coaches entrepreneurial leaders and their executive teams. He helps them clarify their vision, align their people, and grow their businesses. Zach has led 300+ EOS sessions. He was VP of Sales at a logistics company that grew from $30M to $300M in ten years. He also gave a TEDx talk in 2024 and is a former two-time state champion saddle bronc rider.
Irasema Romero
Irasema Romero is a career coach who helps first-generation and immigrant professionals move up into corporate leadership. Irasema has spent more than 15 years in senior communications roles at AT&T, Ancestry, and Gong. Irasema's coaching covers imposter syndrome, systemic barriers, and building visibility with senior leaders. Irasema currently leads internal communications for a team of 1,000 sales and revenue employees at Gong.
Megan Weisheipl
Megan Weisheipl is a mindset and business strategy coach who helps women lead their own lives with more confidence. She also speaks at events and wrote the book The Selfish Hour, which reached Amazon #1 best seller status. She founded The Selfish Circle. Her work targets self-doubt, perfectionism, overthinking and people-pleasing. She has worked with audiences for more than a decade, including a conference crowd of over 250 women.
Anna Chin
Anna Chin is a life, career and communication coach. She helps ambitious people find clarity, build confidence and move forward in their careers. She has 15 years of coaching experience and an MBA. She has lived and traveled in 15 countries, including the United States, Spain, China, Singapore and Hong Kong. She speaks 6 languages and understands how hard it is to thrive in a foreign place. She also holds CBT and NLP practitioner certifications.
Jeff Gothelf
Jeff Gothelf trains and coaches product leaders, executives and teams in product management, product discovery and OKRs. He is a five time author and a keynote speaker. He also gave a TEDx talk on storytelling. His newest book covers customer-centric OKRs. He teaches teams at organizations of every size. His current focus is helping teams build AI products that connect to customer value.
Lena Reinhard
Lena Reinhard is an engineering leadership coach and organizational advisor in Berlin, Germany. She helps executives, senior managers and technical leaders grow in their roles. She also coaches people on public speaking. Before coaching, she was a SaaS co-founder and CEO, and a VP Engineering at startups and scale-ups. She also runs offsite workshops, team development and group training for newer leaders and people managers.
Lina Luo
Lina Luo is a career coach in Qingpu, Shanghai. She also coaches negotiation, presentation and business communication. She has 8 years of career coaching behind her and has worked with 200+ clients on mid-career transitions. She has helped 8,000+ people build negotiation and presentation skills and has supported 60+ companies. Before and alongside coaching, she worked as a regulatory and compliance analyst in chemicals. She coaches in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
ML Leadership
ML Leadership is a leadership and communication coaching practice that helps organizations build strong leaders and high-performing teams. The founder worked for over 20 years as a journalist at CNN, Thomson Reuters and Al Jazeera. That work shapes the storytelling and stage presence used in sessions. The practice offers coaching, communication training and keynotes. Work is remote-friendly and runs in English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese.
Todd Palmer
Todd Palmer is an executive coach and entrepreneurial advisor for founders, CEOs and second-generation owners. He spent more than 25 years as a CEO before coaching. He took his own company onto the Inc. 5000 list six times, after nearly losing it to $600K in debt. He looks at the personal patterns that helped a leader build a business and now limit it. He also runs workshops and speaks at events.
Faith Chang
Faith Chang is a leadership coach in Paris who helps founders, C-level leaders and ambitious professionals in science, tech and healthcare. She draws on 15 years in corporate communications, performing arts and consultancy. She has guided hundreds of professionals toward promotions, funding and stronger public visibility. Her clients have spoken at TED AI, CES, HLTH, SXSW and Vivatech. She also runs strength-based leadership workshops for teams.
Julia Byrd
Julia Byrd is a communication and teens coach in Houston who helps college applicants write their admissions essays. She is an essay specialist with 20 years in writing, editing, and storytelling. She also holds a master's degree in counseling psychology. She works one-on-one or in small groups, in person and online. Her focus is helping students find their own stories and voices so their essays stand out to admission officers.
Kimberly Mitchell
Kimberly Mitchell is a Christian life coach and communication coach who helps women build confidence, clarity and direction. She is the founder of Kimberly T. Inspires, LLC. She is also an author, a public speaking coach and a storytelling strategist. Her work centers on rewriting the limiting stories women hold about themselves and strengthening their voice. She supports clients through life and leadership transitions.
Darlene Hawley
Darlene Hawley is a leadership, executive and business coach in Murrieta, California. She helps executives and entrepreneurs build their visibility and communication so they can speak up for their best ideas. She has 19 years in business and is also a keynote speaker. Corporate Vision voted her Best Business Clarity Coach in Los Angeles. She works with clients across Southern California and writes on imposter syndrome, storytelling and speaking habits.
Lav Chintapalli
Lav Chintapalli is a leadership, executive and team coach in Austin, Texas. Lav helps rising leaders find their strengths and share their ideas with confidence. Lav also coaches teams and works with women in tech. Focus areas include organizational design, storytelling for influence and public speaking. Lav is also a TRE coach, which is a rare add-on for a leadership coach. Purpose coaching for life and career is part of the work too.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Melodia | Public speaking and Presentation Skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Anne Skelly | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Hilary Spreiter | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Joel Schwartzberg | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Michele Moreno | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Nadia Romero | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Debonné Nelson | Public speaking and Executive communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Inès Schinazi | Public speaking and Storytelling | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Carmine Gallo | Presentation skills and Executive communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Kate Gladdin | Public speaking and Storytelling | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Michale Gabriel | Storytelling and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Ashley Boroda | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Illens Dort | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $250 to $350 per hour |
| Ariana Monell | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $125 to $210 an hour |
| College of Public Speaking | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a speaking coach for storytelling cost?
Most speaking coaches charge $80 to $250 per hour or session.
What else do these speaking coaches help with?
Common focus areas include public speaking, presentation skills, executive communication and tedx and keynotes.
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Last updated September 2026.