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THE TOP STORYTELLING COACHES
A Storytelling Coach teaches writers how to craft stories faster for various purposes like marketing, sales, and communication. Story is a universal tool for engaging your mind and heart. It is the art of making something memorable. Copywriter and Storytelling Coach are not exactly the same thing, though sometimes storytelling coaches do write copy for their clients.
A storytelling coach helps people develop a captivating storytelling ability.
You can tell stories in almost any situation and a good story can help you grab people’s attention and connect with them on an emotional level. A storytelling coach doesn’t only teach you how to tell stories, but also how to present yourself and connect with listeners.
Each storytelling coaches, each with their unique style trying to help the clients with efficient writing, and asked them what’s extraordinary about their coaching and what has endorsed their massive success.
Do you think you or a coach that you know deserves to be featured as a top storytelling coach? If yes, then fill out this form and we will consider your application and get in touch with you for the next steps.
Anna McAfee
Patricia Chica, an acclaimed filmmaker, chi energy educator, and coach, is on a mission to merge storytelling, higher consciousness, and performance in the film/TV and entertainment industry. As a sought-after instructor, she has empowered countless actors, celebrities, and industry professionals. Through personalized training, global Chi Energy workshops, engaging talks at film festivals and academia, and various online platforms, Chica has enlightened individuals about harnessing the power of mind, body, and spirit for enhanced creativity, overcoming limiting beliefs, and manifesting desired outcomes faster through simple energy techniques anyone can learn. As recently featured in the LA Times. Chica just released her groundbreaking directorial debut, MONTRÉAL GIRLS, where both the cast and crew received coaching from her, setting a new standards and practices in the film industry’s landscape.
What do you do differently, or how is your coaching different from others?
With state-of-the-art techniques that bridge chi and mindset strategies, I coach leaders to elevate their impact both behind and in front of the camera. My approach sets new standards in the film industry as it simplifies metaphysical concepts, providing accessible techniques to expand creativity, communication skills, and intuition. As a clairvoyant and clairsentient, I design a rigorous training program that harnesses intuition, energy awareness, and mindfulness, to eliminate blocks in the nervous system and subconscious mind. Through accountability follow-ups, outcomes surpass expectations. The stretch occurs at the core level, addressing inner and outer energy balance that accelerates desired RESULTS.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Since the release of my film MONTRÉAL GIRLS, where audiences witnessed the profound impact of my coaching, I have been humbled by the increasing demand for my services. Through heartfelt recommendations and generous media coverage, my reputation has gradually spread. Guiding a new, untrained actor through a year-long program I carefully crafted, I witnessed his incredible growth—a performance brimming with empowerment, authenticity, and self-assurance. This transformative journey extended beyond the lead actor, touching the cast and crew, whom I also trained with my method.
Anna McAfee
Anna McAfee is a Community Educator, Connection Coach and Co-Author of ‘How a Hashtag Changed The World.’ Anna founded the #linkedinlocal movement in 2017, an initiative to take our online connection offline that spread to over 100 cities in 96 countries in its first two years. She helps people and brands build communities and LinkedIn campaigns for social good.
What do you do differently, or how is your coaching different from others?
I work with people to help build networks that have the capacity to build connection and belonging for themselves and others. My Build Your Virtual Village program coaches people to build a network to support them throughout their entire career and establish communities and campaigns that support both short and long-term client goals.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
One thing that has been critical for me in my work is a solid understanding of how connection is formed and built in both the online and offline world. Networks are complex and understanding the principles of digital body language, online leadership and community building is central to bringing out the best in my clients.
Patricia Chica
Patricia Chica, an acclaimed filmmaker, chi energy educator, and coach, is on a mission to merge storytelling, higher consciousness, and performance in the film/TV and entertainment industry. As a sought-after instructor, she has empowered countless actors and industry professionals. Through personalized training, global Chi Energy workshops, engaging talks at film festivals and academia, and various online platforms, Chica has enlightened individuals about harnessing the power of mind, body, and spirit for enhanced creativity, overcoming limiting beliefs, and manifesting desired outcomes faster through simple techniques energy anyone can learn.
As recently featured in the LA Times. Chica just released her groundbreaking directorial debut, MONTRÉAL GIRLS, where both the cast and crew received coaching from her, setting a new standards and practices in the film industry’s landscape.
What do you do differently, or how is your coaching different from others?
With state-of-the-art techniques that bridge chi and mindset strategies, I coach leaders to elevate their impact both behind and in front of the camera. My approach sets new standards in the film industry as it simplifies metaphysical concepts, providing accessible techniques to expand creativity, communication skills, and intuition. As a clairvoyant and clairsentient, I design a rigorous training program that harnesses intuition, energy awareness, and mindfulness, to eliminate blocks in the nervous system and subconscious mind. Through accountability follow-ups, outcomes surpass expectations. The stretch occurs at the core level, addressing inner and outer energy balance that accelerates desired RESULTS.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Since the release of my film MONTRÉAL GIRLS, where audiences witnessed the profound impact of my coaching, I have been humbled by the increasing demand for my services. Through heartfelt recommendations and generous media coverage, my reputation has gradually spread. Guiding a new, untrained actor through a year-long program I carefully crafted, I witnessed his incredible growth—a performance brimming with empowerment, authenticity, and self-assurance. This transformative journey extended beyond the lead actor, touching the cast and crew, whom I also trained with my method. For those interested, I have shared the coaching process in a documentary available on my Vimeo channel.
Matteo Cassese
Matteo Cassese is a business storytelling coach who transforms hard facts and figures into captivating narratives, aiding in preparation for meetings, presentations, and talks, and alleviating anxiety. As a facilitator and public speaking expert, Matteo supports individuals and organizations in reaching their communication goals. His experience spans managing digital marketing for multinational companies like Warner Bros., teaching at university and consulting for digital unicorns like Netflix.
What do you do differently, or how is your coaching different from others?
Matteo combines a strong humanistic approach with a deep understanding of technology and business. He’s gone to the root of how stories define us as humans. C-suite executives, Managers, Scientists, Researchers, and Academics have applied his signature business storytelling methodology. His ability to combine theory, practice, content & delivery is unparalleled.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
Cassese’s strength is creating a warm, gentle, and understanding relationship that leads to open debate, profound reflection, and quick learning. His ability to facilitate shifts in the coachee’s mindset put him at the forefront of business storytelling coaches.
Michael McRay
Michael McRay is an award-winning author, Certified Experiential Coach, and the founder of Becoming Restoried. Becoming Restoried is an experiential coaching program, made up of an online membership community and in-person solo intensives, that aims to guide people toward a reconciliation with their life stories.
Michael work in storytelling the last ten years has covered everything from entertainment to organizational development to empathy-building to peace-building and more. He’s a sought-after speaker and widely-regarded facilitator.
What do you do differently, or how is your coaching different from others?
I work with individuals at a unique intersection: storytelling and conflict resolution. I combine my expertise in both to help people excavate their life stories with curiosity and compassion, while tending to the fires of conflict within and around them. I use highly experiential modalities and base my programming on what I see as the three C’s of personal transformation: Content for growth, a Community of Support, and Coaching from a Guide.
What according to you has been the single most important thing that has contributed to your success as a coach?
The single most impactful thing that as aided my work as a storytelling coach is my relentless investigation and excavation of my own story. I actually do the deep work that I’m guiding others into. There is nothing I ask my clients to do that I haven’t not already done myself. I tell my clients that while I do have numerous credentials, degrees, and certifications, my greatest credential is my humanity. Because I’ve walked the hard road of reconciling with my own stories, and there is nowhere I’m afraid to go with my clients to help them do the same.
Melissa Reaves
Melissa Reaves is a professional and award-winning storyteller and a storytelling coach to executives to i. 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.
Debbie Weil
A Harvard graduate, Debbie Weil is a podcaster and nonfiction writing & storytelling coach (as well as developmental editor). She is a tech pioneer, having worked online since the early 1990s, and was formerly an online marketing consultant. She is the creator and host of the [B]OLDER podcast which focuses on aging and reinvention and making the most of growing older.
And she is the founder and director of Island Women Speak, a Moth-like, intergenerational evening of storytelling by Maine women ages 20 to 80.
Bobby Umar
Bobby Umar is an inspirational speaker, coach, and one of the most prolific advocates of heart-based leadership in North America. Inc Magazine named him one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers, alongside such noteworthy giants as Richard Branson, Brené Brown and John Maxwell. Bobby is a 5x TEDx speaker, and one of the top social media influencers in the world, with over half a million followers.
He has been named the “2nd Best Business Coach to Follow” on Twitter and the “4th Best Leadership Influencer” according to Kred. Bobby is an author of three international books, including a #1 Best Seller. He is also a frequent Huffington Post contributor and he is the host of a weekly tweetchat called “The Power of Connection” that has reached over 65 million impressions weekly. To date, his social media influence has garnered over 1 billion impressions. Bobby was also named a “2015 Speaker to Watch” and most recently, he was named a “Top 7 Networking Guru to Follow”.
Jay Golden
Our journey to catalyzing effective, memorable storytelling began in Saul’s Deli in Berkeley, California, when two storytellers, Jay Golden and Joel ben Izzy, talked over lunch. Both had been long at work supporting leaders who were innovating how our world works, from the food we eat, to the energy we use, to the homes in which we live.
The world was moving so quickly, and the information river was ever-expanding. Jay had been working at the convergence of web learning and entertainment for many years, and observed new media forms emerging each day to deliver this information. Joel had traveled the world telling stories and connecting audiences near and far. Together, they both knew that there was a good way to help leaders ride this river, something at once both very ancient and yet very able to travel into the future: the retellable story.
Jan Blake
As one of the leading storytellers, Jan Blake has been performing worldwide for over twenty-five years. Specialising in stories from Africa, the Caribbean, and Arabia, she has a well-earned reputation for dynamic and generous storytelling. Recent highlights include Hay Festival, where she was storyteller in-residence, the Viljandi Harvest Festival in Estonia and TEDx Warsaw.
As well as performing at all the major storytelling festivals both nationally and internationally, she works regularly with the British Council, leads storytelling workshops for emerging storytellers, and gives masterclasses for teachers, brands, and businesses. She also regularly captivates school children with mesmerising stories.
Ira Koretsky
Hello. My name is Ira Koretsky (bio). I am the founder and CEO of The Chief Storyteller ® and I have been in the world of storytelling since I was in high school debate. Three years after starting forensics (that’s what it was called back then), I was a New York State debate champion finalist. There were just 26 of us from the entire state.
A life-long foundational lesson came from our debate coach and our storytelling coach, Mr. Height. He stressed… and made us appreciate… the power of effective stories and appreciate the power of effective delivery. They went hand-in-hand.
Dave Walker
I would now like to help others make positive changes in their lives as well
I am hoping that through my COACHING and STORYTELLING (writing and speaking) that I can both INSPIRE and EMPOWER my clients to make positive changes in their lives Changes that will allow them to also lead more fulfilling lives, whatever that may mean to them.
Jyoti Guptara
Many leaders intuitively know the power of Storytelling, but their MBA didn’t teach them how to tell stories people want to hear. After studying story structure for 15 years and writing bestsellers, I’m passionate about helping leaders and companies tell stories so that they are sustainably more inspired, inspiring, and effective.
Conclusion
There you have it, you’ve just read about the industry’s top storytelling coaches.
What has been your biggest takeaway from this?
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