Speaking coaches for storytelling
Compare 43 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 executives, professionals 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.
College of Public Speaking
College of Public Speaking is a London training firm that teaches public speaking, presentation skills and train the trainer skills. It offers courses and online one-to-one coaching for professionals from all fields. The team works from King's Cross. Founder Vince Stevenson, known as The Fear Doctor, serves as Education Director. The firm's classes are accredited by CIMA and the Institute of Leadership and Management. Courses cover fear of public speaking, executive presentations, storytelling and leadership.
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.
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.
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.
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.
London Speech Workshop
London Speech Workshop is a team of communication coaches in London. They help professionals and companies speak with clarity and confidence. Courses cover public speaking, accent softening, interview skills, elocution, storytelling and handling conflict. Their Head Coach is a professional actor with more than 27 years of coaching experience. One client team used their coaching to prepare a pitch to the International Olympic Committee. They serve individuals and organisations.
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.
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.
Debonné Nelson
Debonné Nelson is a communication and public speaking coach who also offers life, leadership and executive coaching. She 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. She has written speeches for city mayors and executives and co-written keynote presentations. She also holds master's degrees in public health and social work. She helps clients build confidence, strategy and self-awareness.
Rionach Aiken
Rionach Aiken is a communication and visibility coach in the Netherlands. She helps business owners and creatives become seen, known and valued. She is a former non-profit CEO who led a team of 100 and worked toward a million in revenue. She spent decades struggling with shyness before she became a poet and speaker. She now uses poetry and energy work in her coaching and runs workshops in the Netherlands and Denmark.
Inès Schinazi
Inès Schinazi is a communication and public speaking coach who helps leaders and professionals tell their own story. She also worked at Google Brazil and Bank of New York. She coaches leaders from Google, Meta, Waze, Cargill and Brazil's Paralympic Committee. Her work centers on interviews, leadership moments and career pivots.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. She is a former Senior Software Engineer at Google, where she worked in Switzerland and India. Her teams covered Payments, Large-Scale Data Processing and Data Privacy Infrastructure. She coaches individual contributors on productivity, time management, structured communication, storytelling and executive presence. She also helps candidates prepare for coding and behavioral interviews, drawing on 75+ L3 and L4 interviews she ran.
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.
Jevon Wooden
Jevon Wooden is a leadership coach and growth consultant who helps business owners and organizational leaders. He runs BrightMind Consulting Group in Houston. He is an Army Veteran with 12 years of military service, and he also worked in public accounting and cybersecurity. He offers one-on-one and group coaching, team training, consulting and keynote talks. His work centers on emotional intelligence, team culture and sustainable growth.
Joanna Wiebe
Joanna Wiebe is a messaging strategist and copywriting trainer who helps marketing teams, startup founders and freelancers write copy that sells. She created the idea of conversion copywriting and founded Copyhackers in 2011. She has trained 10,000 copywriters. Her clients range from a one-person medical SMS startup to AWS. She runs brand voice and messaging workshops for whole teams, not just the writers.
John Sonmez
John Sonmez coaches software developers who want to build a career through visibility and a personal brand. He created Rockstar Developer University and is a two-time best-selling author with 400K subscribers. His Rockstar System uses YouTube, podcasts, LinkedIn, writing and speaking to build authority. Clients have won promotions, grown audiences, started consulting and landed conference talks. One client grew a Unity channel from 1,000 to 30,000 subscribers under his coaching.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sarah Lakhani
Sarah Lakhani is a business and executive coach in the United Arab Emirates. She helps women who lead organizations, women moving up in corporate, and women building their own businesses. She spent 13 years as an internal strategist at Emirates and started her own consultancy in 2020. Her clients include Dubai Media Office, Dubai Women's Establishment and Nakheel. She uses a Brand-First Methodology that ties brand, strategy and customer experience together.
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.
Tony Gambill
Tony Gambill is the founder of ClearView Leadership. Tony coaches leaders and consults with organizations on Self Leadership and Leading Others. Tony also speaks at events. Tony has over 25 years of executive and leadership experience across for-profit and nonprofit work, healthcare, government and higher education. Tony has worked with c-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies, government leaders, entrepreneurs and nonprofits. Tony writes leadership articles for Forbes.
Tricia Homer
Tricia Homer is a leadership coach and facilitator who helps leaders and teams build clearer communication, trust, and alignment. She designs leadership retreats and team trainings. From 2016 to 2022 she built and ran the Executive Communication Coaching Program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. She co-founded HGVenture, and her background in theater and performing arts shapes how she coaches presence and storytelling.
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. She has spent more than 15 years in senior communications roles at AT&T, Ancestry, and Gong. Her coaching covers imposter syndrome, systemic barriers, and building visibility with senior leaders. She currently leads internal communications for a team of 1,000 sales and revenue employees at Gong.
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.
Kyla Cofer
Kyla Cofer is a leadership and self care coach who helps people recover from burnout and anxiety. She is also a podcaster and keynote speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee. She built her work on decades of training in social work, nonprofits and life coaching. She has shared her story with audiences of all sizes since she was 15, from Oregon to South Africa. Her talks cover burnout, self care and learning from failure.
Monica Wisdom
Monica Wisdom is a life and business coach who works with women. She helps them get clear on their vision, share their stories and build ventures from their skills and life experience. She also creates and hosts the Black Women Amplified podcast, which has 8 seasons and 180 episodes. She brings more than thirty-five years of work with women, plus a background in media, education and publishing. She is based in Missouri.
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.
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.
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 |
| College of Public Speaking | 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 |
| Kate Gladdin | Public speaking and Storytelling | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Michale Gabriel | Storytelling and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Michele Moreno | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Ashley Boroda | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| London Speech Workshop | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Nadia Romero | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Ariana Monell | Public speaking and Presentation skills | $125 to $210 an hour |
| Debonné Nelson | Public speaking and Executive communication | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Rionach Aiken | Public speaking and Storytelling | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Inès Schinazi | Public speaking and Storytelling | $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.