Melissa Reaves

Melissa Reaves (she/her) is a professional and award-winning storyteller and storytelling coach to executives. Her sales and marketing background includes more than 20 years in technology enterprise sales, as well as countless stage credits as a professional actor/improviser. This combination of sales, marketing, acting, writing, directing and producing storytelling shows, ultimately led her to found Story Fruition to help others find and tell their stories--with impact.

Melissa works with CEOs, Founders and Senior Executives to build their storytelling skills and enrich their leadership. Melissa is the Pitch Coach for Founders Live, Seattle University's Business Plan Competition, and has been invited to instruct storytelling for business narratives at conferences all over the United States.

• As an actress and professional storyteller, Melissa Reaves regularly appears on The Moth Story Slams (she wins too!), National Storytellers Network,  Seattle's Fresh Ground Stories, Ignite Seattle, NAMI's Brainpower Chronicles, Speak Up Podcast, The Otter Story Hour and Unexpected Productions Improv. Her work has also been featured on NPR. 

Melissa is constantly teaching storytelling, studying it, and performing so she masters the power of this skill and art form. She's known for producing rich characters in her stories so her listeners step inside the emotional journey with her and the "Mind Movie" she's sharing.