Storytelling Workshops
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Business Storytelling Workshops
Many companies struggle to improve their internal and external storytelling because their messaging is unstructured, uninspiring, or too complex.
Important messages shouldn’t get drowned out by noise simply because they aren’t communicated effectively.
I know how hard it is to find relevant stories and feel confident about sharing them in business, all while fighting an over-full schedule.
For 15 years, leaders on five continents have trusted me to facilitate sessions that spark actionable insights – so that storytelling becomes a strategic asset, not another skill you don’t have time to master.
Popular Storytelling Workshops
Business Storytelling for Leaders
Executive storytelling workshops cover topics like finding purpose, setting vision, and building culture. While many leaders are discovering the power of story, most storytelling efforts are personal and random. They don’t align people. When organisations systematise their storytelling, they can scale their influence, internally and externally.
Solve complex challenges with simple stories. Replace apathy and uncertainty with clarity and connection. Replicate your Organisational DNA across departments, saving immeasurable resources, time and nerves.
- Purpose discovery workshop
- Guiding principles: vision, mission and values
- Business storytelling for managers: how to model behaviour with stories
Story-Branding, Marketing & Sales
Be noticed in a noisy world. Quickly establish trust and build rapport. The best sellers are storytellers: they use stories to establish credibility, demonstrate value, and model the sale. Best of all, storytelling makes people feel great about selling. Because they can collaborate rather than confront.
Facts tell, stories sell. These business storytelling workshops help enhance sales pitches, marketing strategies, and customer engagement.
- Story-branding
- Storify a marketing funnel
- Story-selling and increasing perceived value
Strategy & Change Storytelling
The vast majority of change initiatives fail. The right story will help you communicate strategic change so that it is understood, embraced and executed. These business storytelling workshops will help facilitate change, ensuring smoother transitions and greater buy-in from stakeholders.
- Storify the entire cycle of strategy development and implementation
- Storytelling for change management
- Change the stories, change the culture
Story Sprint
Want immediate results?
A story sprint is your expert-facilitated rapid story development session. Learn and practice storytelling while building your story collection as a team.
This fast-paced session encourages creativity and spontaneity.
In just a few hours, you can:
- Collect authentic, relevant stories you can start using today
- Build narrative intelligence as team members learn by doing
- Practice actual storytelling
- Lay the foundation for a storytelling culture
… even if you have zero storytelling experience!
Storytelling needs to be taught and caught. A story sprint does both.
The energy is infectious.
It’s a team building session with tangible outcomes – a collection of homegrown stories you can start using immediately for business objectives, whether that’s knowledge transfer, marketing, sales, culture or change.
How a Story Sprint Works
Duration: two to six hours
Location: your premises or virtual (in-person is preferred)
Group size: ideally between three and eight people; larger groups can be split into small groups with facilitators.
Kickstart your team’s storytelling journey today. A story sprint is a fun, efficient, and effective practical program that will pay daily dividends for years to come.
Testimonials
“Jyoti’s questions are incredibly thoughtful, well put, and compelling.”
—Amy Edmondson, Professor or Leadership at Harvard Business School
“We are all storytellers, and Jyoti’s storytelling workshop truly emphasized the power of narrative in corporate communication. The DOMINO framework introduced was nothing short of a game changer, providing invaluable insights into crafting compelling and impactful messages. As someone deeply entrenched in the world of UX research, I found this workshop to be particularly enlightening. It’s not just about relaying information from users, but about weaving narratives from user stories that engage, inform, and inspire. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or part of a product development team, the ability to convey stories effectively is paramount. Jyoti’s workshop equips you with the tools and mindset needed to excel in this essential skill.”
—Slava Polonski, Senior UX Researcher, Google
“Jyoti went above and beyond to deliver an insightful, engaging and relevant discussion. He received great feedback from participants and I witnessed first hand his ability to clearly deliver a robust discussion while keeping everyone engaged and curious. I was proud to have brought him on to unlock his wisdom to all our participants.”
—Keith Glozzy, Program Manager, New York (WPP)
“The stories will definitely be used on an ongoing basis. In fact, this week we used a story in an application, which helped us make a connection – with success. The whole team knows we only got funding for this project thanks to storytelling!”
—Tobias Weinhold, St. Gallen (Grafiker, Filmer und Projektleiter)
“I and my team had the chance to work with Jyoti on multiple occasions throughout the past two years and I can confidently say it was always a great, insightful and inspiring experience. From a keynote speech to developing a story around a multiple sclerosis discovery experience to a workshop on how to improve your business storytelling abilities, Jyoti always proved his expertise in the matter. He is an incredible storyteller and is able to project this skill with ease onto you.”
—Gabriel Baeasu, Basel (Roche)
“My favourite thing was his persistency in asking the right questions to get to the core of my message. I now have a structure for my pitches and marketing material. I feel reenergized and am confident that this will lead to greater success.”
—Peter Schmid, Zurich (Managing Partner, Distinga Advisory Solutions LLC; Various top positions at UBS Investment Banking & UBS Wealth Management)
Business storytelling workshops in Zurich Switzerland, St. Gallen, Schweiz