Listen to Noomii's interview with Melissa Haveman

About Me

Melissa Haveman (She/Her) is an organizational sociologist and ICF certified coach who specializes in helping creative professionals and teams reach their professional and creative goals. She also overthinking writers spend less time with their judgy inner critic and more time with fun and play on their writing journey so they can put more words on the page and more money in the bank as they build the author life they want.

Melissa has a master’s degree in Sociology from Southern Illinois University and the Leading Virtual Teams Certificate from Cornell University. Melissa is also an independent authorized partner and certified trainer for Everything DiSC, an accredited facilitator for The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, and a Positive Intelligence coach. She loves taking these team-building solutions to businesses and nonprofits around West Michigan and beyond.

Melissa served as the Director of Content (Director of Curriculum) for an edtech company and has over two decades of experience as a ghostwriter, curriculum developer, instructional designer, and developmental editor. She also has extensive experience working in and leading virtual and creative teams.

One of those “creative types,” Melissa has been both a herded cat and a cat herder. She’s blessed with far too many ideas for one person to handle, a calming presence that works on everyone but foster kittens, and an ability to see situations from drone height, which makes her good at understanding context, the interplay of present factors, and what solutions will work. Her favorite received compliment was that if she answered all the questions in the world, she’d invent more questions just to solve them.

As a coach, Melissa uses a strength-based, positive coaching style to help her clients achieve their goals. She brings a calming presence, humor, and openness to every session.