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Where Will Storytelling Be 1 Year From Now? 

June 12, 2017
You can’t throw a stone without hitting a storytelling consultant today. Yet, I remember a lot of blank stares when…
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3 Business Storytelling Secrets that No One Tells you about

May 30, 2017
What’s the secret sauce that makes some stories better than others and some storytellers more successful than others? The answers…
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Hijacked or Precious? 

May 2, 2017
I introduced myself at a recent event as a business storyteller, which is what I am. There was a time…
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A Star and a Suggestion

April 18, 2017
One of our highest needs is appreciation. This is true even if you are not normally needy! My daughter was…
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Shhh this is private…

April 4, 2017
Our biggest fear with storytelling is that we might disclose too much. It is after all storytelling and not group…
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Mission Possible: 3 Fail proof ways to remember names

March 21, 2017
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is one of William Shakespeare’s famous lines from Romeo and Juliet.…
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Revenge of the analogue?

March 6, 2017
Every year, I do an annual holiday with my oldest childhood friends. A ‘girls only’ holiday, no partners or kids.…
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What drives us to reach our potential?

February 20, 2017
No excerpt…
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Beer and diamonds…how to showcase your ‘uglies’

October 11, 2016
Recently I was walking past a popular bar near my house and the ad in the window said: ‘Over rated…
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The immutable law of storytelling success

September 13, 2016
I am an economist by training (please don’t stop reading here!).  One of the most famous laws in economics is The law of…
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Beyond Binary: How to grab your audience’s attention 

August 23, 2016
“We work with people who only want the data; the facts. Do I just stick with facts or tell stories?”…
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Sorry, I have bad news…

August 9, 2016
Recently an oncologist friend shared how the hardest part of his job is giving patients bad news. It’s the toughest…