Mel Willard
Speaker and author Melanie Willard helps organizations grow in resilience while breaking the silence and stigma attached to human suffering. Adventurous, passionate, and a fighter, Melanie has overcome many life-threatening battles such as domestic violence, addiction, cancer, loss, eating disorders, and depression. Melanie’s greatest passion is to equip believers to know God more intimately and to make Him known! Her inspiring yet sobering message is shared with compassion, authority, and boldness that can only come from lived experience backed up by God’s Word. Melanie served on the front lines of crisis and disaster situations, pioneered and managed a network of chaplains the “Billy Graham Rapid Response Team” (RRT) who deployed to assist victims of 25+ crisis and disasters across North America. Melanie is Crisis & Trauma Response certified through the Crisis & Trauma Research Institute (CTRI) as well as the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF).
