Narrative Storytelling in Sales, Presentation Skills, Narrative Medicine

14 Jun

Key learnings list from a Strategic Storytelling Session

I am writing this blog to capture the key learnings I shared in a session I conducted for a large platform company. If you were in attendance in the session, you will understand the context to these key learnings and if you are a regular blog reader, then also you can learn a few good storytelling tips here. Key Learnings List 1.…

12 Apr

Storytelling : You can’t storytell unless you are willing to story listen

No doubt story listening is the foundation of good storytelling. Those who understand this are in agreement that without listening we don’t really know what is the right story to tell. However, listening is a skill that needs development. We have many ways to develop storytelling skills but not that many to develop story listening skills. The problem lies in the fact…

15 Mar

Strategic Storytelling : Book Announcement

I am pleased to announce that my book Strategic Storytelling will be published by The Hachette Book Group . The Hachette Book Group is a leading US trade publisher and a division of the third largest trade and educational book publisher in the world, Hachette Livre. The book launches in UK, India and Australia in Nov 2022 and in the USA…

14 Feb

The perils of vulnerability in corporate storytelling

“When storytelling, be vulnerable, talk about your mistakes and you will connect with your audience.” says a communication expert to a group of corporate professionals. It is worth exploring the perils associated with this generic advice that doesn’t always work in a corporate setting. A few years ago I was watching videos of corporate leaders such as Indra Nooyi, Meg Whitman, Ginni …

30 Nov

Storytelling for women in a boardroom is a hard, we all know that already but what is the solution? We share a strategy to overcome this challenge in this blog. Mita Mallick, who is now the Head of Inclusion, Equity and Impact at Carta shared an opinion during an online meeting but her voice was drowned out. “I’m interrupted, like, three times …

08 Nov

Gender Diversity : A story to keep the negative press away

Today, if you host a panel discussion and not have women on the panel, be sure that you will be trolled for that. The deeper understanding of how this pressure is not really helping can be understood with the story of a leaders from a large MNCs. In 2019, I asked a client of mine why, when most of their competitors …

19 Oct

Data Storytelling : An insight alone is not a Story

Finding a data insight and believing you can now make the change happen with the insight alone, is one of the common data storytelling mistakes. To understand this let us look at what happened with Sam and his team. Sam and his team worked hard to find an insight from the data they had received from their ecommerce team. They finally had…

29 Sep

Women and Storytelling : Don’t forget the me

In my upcoming book Storied, I have written a little bit about communication challenges specific to women in workforce . In this short read I share one of them, a self inflicted issue which secretively transforms itself in to a roadblock to women’s stories being told. Despite being aware of this issue, I am a victim too. Let’s begin with me. August…

03 Sep

Data Storytelling: Data Driven Decisions, A Leadership Fallacy

Data tells us what is happening but leadership is about what can happen! In this short blog I share my key learnings from a recent experience of working with a client, who I was helping build a data driven story for business planning purposes. Here is what I observed 1) Intuition : We already had some hypothesis based on our intuition that…

11 Aug

To use corporate storytelling to bring an organisation’s goal to life is a good practice.However, if the goal is not concrete, it is highly unlikely you will be able to move people in to action. You will leave a group of motivated employees not knowing what to do next. *In 1960’s when Boeing prepared to launch the design of the 727 passenger…

Narrative Storytelling Blog

Key learnings list from a Strategic Storytelling Session

Storytelling : You can’t storytell unless you are willing to story listen

Strategic Storytelling : Book Announcement

The perils of vulnerability in corporate storytelling

Storytelling : The lost boardroom voice

Gender Diversity : A story to keep the negative press away

Data Storytelling : An insight alone is not a Story

Women and Storytelling : Don’t forget the me

Data Storytelling: Data Driven Decisions, A Leadership Fallacy

Concrete Corporate Storytelling Sticks