How to Make Your Business Stories Impactful and Memorable
Top business leaders lead with stories A chapter closed on my life on Friday, January 12, 2018. After five years as the professor of storytelling, creating and teaching the communications…
How to Persuade any Audience with the Power of Storytelling
Business storytelling is how leaders change beliefs and shape behaviors. On a trip to Amsterdam for the Arizona State University Masters students in the Executive Masters of Sustainability Leadership program,…
6 Brand Story Structure Failures Most Marketers Miss and How to Fix Them
Only a sturdy brand narrative, supported by your internal business stories, will bridge you to your future Most business leaders and marketers focus on their high-level brand narrative. But few…
The Five Stages of Grief of a Business Storyteller and How to Get Over Them
How to move from denying to accepting business and brand storytelling as key to your leadership growth I witness the five stages of grief in every business storytelling workshop I…
Grow your brand with three insights from Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience
Waste not, want not, with your story marketing to create epic customer experiences I had the honor of being invited as an influencer to Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience event this past week…
How Top Leaders Develop Storytelling Talents in their People
Stories shape the behaviors that build the culture that drives epic performance Earlier this year I sat in a three-day master class with Shawn Callahan of the communications firm Anecdote…
Understand Your Personal Brand Story to Grow Your Influence
20 People to Know in the Phoenix Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Community On Friday, February 19, 2017, I was honored to be named by the Phoenix Business Journal as…
Brand Storytelling is not About What You Make, but What You Make Happen
I was in Washington D.C. on Nov. 2 and 3 hosting a Business of Story mastermind class for the American Marketing Association. Nine of their member brands were in attendance to…
10 quick questions to help you own your brand story
No one will buy into your brand story until you own it first. I’ve found for the past 10 years guiding brands through the Story Cycle process that if you can get…
How to Craft a Potent Brand Statement for Your Professional Services Firm
Think of your brand statement as a Hollywood logline. A logline is a one or two sentence description of your movie that hopefully captivates a studio and convinces them to make…
