Melissa Severance helps leaders and organizations disrupt the future of work with strategy, heart, and intention. As the Founder and Chief Dream Officer of Inspire Big Dreams LLC and Founder of DisruptHR Naples, she designs and delivers customized leadership development experiences that transform how leaders think, communicate, and lead. With more than 25 years of experience spanning Big 4 accounting, executive HR leadership, and entrepreneurial consulting environments that scaled from 100 to more than 2,000 employees nationwide, Melissa brings both operational depth and visionary thinking to every engagement.

Today, she partners with executives, HR teams, healthcare organizations, manufacturers, nonprofits, country clubs, and growing companies to build visionary leadership capabilities, coaching cultures, emotionally intelligent teams, strategic talent development systems, and workplace wellbeing and resilience practices. Melissa does not believe in one-size-fits-all training. Every workshop, leadership cohort, mastermind, and keynote she delivers is tailored to each organization’s culture, challenges, and strategic goals—creating experiences that move beyond inspiration and drive measurable behavior change.

Her work has included grant-funded workforce development programs, executive and emerging leader cohorts, behavioral interviewing and talent strategy redesign, workplace wellness and mindfulness initiatives, customer service and leadership excellence programs, culture transformation strategies, respectful workplace training, and leadership development for new managers and frontline supervisors. As a PCC-certified executive coach and certified Mindfulness in the Workplace facilitator, Melissa integrates evidence-based leadership science with presence, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence, believing that strong strategy without self-leadership cannot sustain results.

Melissa is passionate about helping leaders advance or pivot their careers, strengthen executive presence, navigate change with confidence, lead with clarity and purpose, and build cultures where people and performance thrive. Guided by her belief that small shifts create exponential results, leadership is a ripple effect, and relationships matter, she brings intention to every aspect of her work. Outside of leadership development, she is a wellness advocate, avid meditator, yogi, and Level 3 Sommelier—because she believes great leadership, like great wine, is developed with intention.