Keynote Speaking

If you are looking for an inspiring, engaging keynote speaker who knows how to relate to your audience in a fun practical way, Melissa J. Nixon is just the powerhouse of positivity that you need. She lights up every room she walks into make others feel welcomed and ready to conquer the world with courageous action. The best part about the experience that Melissa provides is that she not only leaves her audiences inspired but ready to action on what they've been inspired to do.

Executive Leadership Coach, Trainer, and Keynote Speaker, Melissa J. Nixon is known as the Courageous Life Mentor. As Founder of the Courageous Life Academy, a global coaching and consulting firm, she specializes in helping visionary leaders, emerging c-suite executives, CEOs and women influencers to maximize their leadership, business and life potential. Referred to as a “Powerhouse of Positivity” – Melissa applies a unique “fire-starting” approach to igniting change with her private and corporate clients.

Once an introverted grad student who was intimidated by anyone with a title, she successfully climbed the corporate ranks and became a sought-after thought leader in the industry of Change Management. Feeling like it was time to do more, she made a non-negotiable decision to leave a successful corporate career to pursue her own dream to change more lives as a global speaker and trainer. She now teaches visionary men and women how to “Own their Seat at the Table”, unleash their voice and develop a powerhouse brand.

Melissa and the Courageous Life Team help leaders to live and lead courageously through their workshops, coaching programs, and signature speaking topics such as:

- Own It! How to Take Your Seat at the Table
- Master Fear: Ignite the Confidence and Courage
- Master Your Message: 5 Ways to Engage Your Team and Master Your Message
- Becoming a Person of Influence – How to Engage and Influence Others
- Show up! The Art of Strategic Networking

As a former HR and OD Leader leading large-scale change across the US for national and international brands, she uses her unique skill set as a both a visionary and a change strategist to show others how to take courageous leaps and execute them in a digestible fashion. Melissa’s engaging style, contagious laugh, and values-driven approach helps her to connect with leaders at all levels. With degrees in psychology and sociology from the University of Virginia, a MBA with a concentration in Organization Development from Regent University, helping leaders’ lead organizational and personal change has always been a passion for Melissa.

As a result of Melissa Nixon’s courageous lifestyle, she takes no excuses from her clients who seek to experience transformational change! She practices what she preaches even in her personal life by leading a life of risk and adventure with death defying activities such as sky diving, overcoming her fear of deep water, to participating in her first mini-sprint triathlon. You can find more of Melissa’s writing and work with organizations such as the Huffington Post, Network for Executive Women, America’s #1 Leadership Expert, John Maxwell, and the Center for Women in Business operated by the US Chamber of Commerce.

Her Motto: I’m not afraid of failure, but I am afraid of regret!

Discover courage and experience change today!