About Mel2024-11-03T16:43:21-05:00

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About.mel

Coach, Speaker, Author, Professional skydiver

About.mel

Coach. Speaker. Author. Pro skydiver.
Melanie Curtis is a world record pro skydiver who teaches key components of peak performance as a keynote speaker and professional development facilitator. Go HERE to bring Melanie in to speak. 
As a coach, Melanie is a relentless and highly effective teammate for her clients looking to expand beyond their current edges. She holds the safest possible space for people to explore what’s really holding them back, a critical piece of true breakthrough. No topic or goal is off limits.
As an author and speaker, her words pierce the veil of performative perfectionism helping others both understand and experiment with what it really takes to achieve their own version of outlier results. She has authored 3 books, including How to Fly: Life Lessons From a Professional Skydiver.
Melanie has been tapped as an expert in Forbes, Fast Company, Thrive Global, on CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC Know Your Value, Masters of Scale, Entrepreneurs on Fire, and many more.
In her dynamic and disarming keynote speeches, Melanie facilitates genre-busting professional development on peak performance for high-performing individuals and teams. Melanie is as funny as she is impactful, be ready for your eyes to widen and your mind and heart to open.
Melanie co-founded Highlight, an all-female demonstration jump team, using skydiving as a vehicle to champion equality, and is the Executive Director of the Women’s Skydiving Network foundation.
Melanie is a passionate public advocate for legal, safe and equitable access to the transformative power of psychedelic medicines. Co-founding the Trust the Journey podcast, she and guests share in depth about their own healing experiences and personal practices in service to helping others.
Melanie loves her family above all things (including her cat, Matil), except maybe the whale joke. Ask her to tell it.
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coach / consultant

The highest level leaders are most effective with expert support. It is lonely at the top. Allocating space for our humanity along with our striving is KEY. We are teammates in a way you never thought you’d need. But you do. We all do. The best in the world understand this and build their personal support team accordingly. Let’s talk.

speaker

Peak performance, in yourself and your team. Comedy as a KEY skill in all of it.

Melanie is a dynamic keynote speaker and professional development facilitator. In person or virtually, she motivates and inspires leaders and teams to think and act beyond their current edges. #GOTEAM

Author

Mel relentlessly extracts insight from experience. And…… she’s hilarious. A quote journal, a graphic memoir, a life story. Listen on Audible for the full experience. Sign up here to learn more about deep healing as Mel writes her next book.

Speaker

Keynote & facilitator
  • Accessing Peak Performance When the Stakes are High
  • Comedy as a KEY skill in Growth and Leadership
  • Harnessing Fear and Flow to Reach New Heights
  • Building Confidence, Competence and Connection
  • Building Resilience in Long-term Leadership
  • Courage to Take Uncomfortable Action
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    COACH / consultant

    BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO TRY THE THING YOU THINK WILL NEVER WORK. BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO LOOK INTO YOUR BLIND SPOTS WITH A FIERCE TEAMMATE. RECOGNIZE THIS WORK IS CRITICAL TO REACHING THE NEXT LEVEL OF SUCCESS HOWEVER YOU DEFINE IT.

    WHEN WE GET OUR INNER LIFE TOGETHER, OUR OUTER LIFE FOLLOWS.

    who does mel work with?

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    high-achievers struggling with uncertainty, fear or faltering confidence

    leadership teams

    struggling to inspire engagement, positive culture and follow-through

    Professional Athletes

    looking to overcome fear and parlay their experience into their next phase of business, creativity, life

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    Testimonials

    “I meant what I said about this being your true calling. You are in the life changing business and I’ll never forget the change you have made in mine and my family’s. I will be eternally thankful. You are a true pro and a master of your craft, so much in fact that one doesnt really even notice your influence at the time, only that suddenly that there is a significant improvement in an area where there hadn’t been any. That is what a true natural talent looks like. Regardless of the profession, the best always make it look effortless and your methods reflect that. For the first time in a very long time I feel mentally and emotionally dialed in, and it’s great.”

    Client

    You know I read all the reviews about you on your site and still I wondered what you have to offer. Obviously I was curious enough to still try it… I’m sure you’re told often that you hit the nail on the head so easily it seems. I’m speechless lol not a familiar thing for me. Thank you a million times over. I don’t think you’re trying to sell me but you have.”

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