Conference Offerings
Mellisa designs conference experiences that deliver real results. Alongside live graphic recording, she brings years of experience facilitating sessions for business professionals, educators, and hands-on creators. Her keynotes and workshops are intentionally interactive—designed to increase participation, deepen engagement, and help ideas actually stick.
Participants leave with shared language, clearer thinking, and practical tools they can use immediately. In a conference landscape crowded with passive panels and lectures, Mellisa creates sessions that move people into action—and make the conference more impactful overall.
The Interactive Keynote: From Audience to Community
A facilitated experience that builds connection, psychological safety, and shared reflection—fast
Many conferences say their goal is networking—helping people meet, connect, and build relationships. But too often, they stop there. There’s no real structure to help those connections stick once attendees leave the room.
Iceberg Creatives’ Interactive Keynotes change that. Participants are professionally facilitated through thoughtful, non-awkward connection experiences from the very beginning. Using intentional prompts, clear questions, and low-pressure, choice-based activities, attendees build a shared foundation they can return to throughout the day—or the entire conference.
The result? People get out of their chairs, talk to each other like humans, think together, laugh, and actually remember the experience. It sets the tone for a conference that feels connected, not transactional.
Breakout Sessions Designed for Participation
How Not to Be Boring (and Why It Matters): Designing Sessions to Engage
Meetings don’t have to be painful. In this interactive session, you’ll pick up simple tools and tricks to keep people engaged, remembering what matters, and actually enjoy what is happening.. We’ll start with fun, energizing activities to get everyone involved, try hands-on exercises to boost participation, and explore various approaches to keep folks engaged. By the end, you’ll feel confident noticing what’s happening in the room, asking better questions, and leading sessions that are anything but boring.
Thinking Visually (Even If You “Can’t Draw”): Stick Figures Welcome
Sketchnoting isn’t about being an artist—it’s about making ideas stick. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn simple visual tools and a basic visual vocabulary to capture ideas in real time, spark reflection, and help everyone see what’s happening. Stick figures, icons, and quick sketches are all welcome—no artistic skill required. Make thinking visible, accessible, and actually fun.
From Brainstorm to Decision: Ending the Meeting With a Plan
Groups are great at generating ideas—and terrible at deciding what to do next. This session focuses on moving from ideas and disagreements to alignment using practical decision-making frameworks that don’t require consensus. By the end, participants can see what’s most important, clarify roles in who is doing what, and leave with clear next steps.
Stop the Lecture: Designing Sessions People Can Actually Join
Most conference sessions fail because they’re designed to talk at people, not with them. This session teaches how to intentionally invite participation—without forcing it—using simple structures for small groups, full-group dialogue, and solo reflection. Participants learn how to handle silence and dominant voices with confidence instead of panic.
Facilitation for When You’re Not The Facilitator: How to Shape a Room Without Being “In Charge”
This session is for anyone who leads meetings, committees, or groups but doesn’t think of themselves as a facilitator. You’ll pick up simple tools, learn how to ask better questions, and notice what’s happening in the room—all without feeling awkward or overbearing.
Not Another Panel: Facilitation of Panels
Mellisa is a seasoned panel facilitator who knows how to guide conversations, ask thoughtful questions, and ensure all voices are heard. She keeps discussions focused and moving while creating space for panelists to contribute meaningfully and equitably.
No matter the topic or theme, strong facilitation is what makes a panel engaging instead of meandering—and that’s where Mellisa excels.