Business of Story

Ken Oliver, VP, Checkr.org/Executive Director, Checkr Foundation, shares what would be a soul-crushing story to the rest of us of being in solitary confinement for 8.5 years and emerging as a profound voice for ex-convicts who have earned the right to become productive citizens through Fair Chance Hiring. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park

Justin Rende, Founder and CEO of Rhymetec, spent five years working for Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Films and used what he learned about Hollywood storytelling to grow his cybersecurity company. Here’s his story.  Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park

Erik Ewers, Senior Editor and Co-Director at Ken Burns Florentine Films and Co-founder of Ewers Brothers Productions, shares what he’s learned about iconic storytelling from legendary documentarian Ken Burns and shares why his latest film called Hiding in Plain Site: Youth Mental Illness is the most important project he’s directed to-date. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park

Samantha Scholl, Director of Entrepreneur Programs for the Better Business Bureau Serving the Pacific Southwest (BBB), shares how storytelling through their Empower Program has helped main street mom & pop businesses thrive. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park

Nancy Harhut, co-founder and chief creative officer of HBT Marketing and author of Using Behavioral Science in Marketing shares how to use business storytelling to hack human behavior in your advertising, sales and marketing campaigns. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park

Sean Soth, Founder of Professionals for Association Revenue, an organization focused on improving association revenue health through community and resources, explores how associations can use business storytelling to grow their membership.

Pablo Gonzalez, founder and CEO of BeTheStage.live, the host of the B2B Community Builder and Not Your Average Investor podcasts, and inventor of the Relationship Flywheel – the method that generated $40M from a podcast community in 1 year – shares how to build a community of raving fans with your business storytelling.   Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park

Heather Pierce, Community & Content Strategy Director at Leavitt Group a Top 20 national insurance company shares why you should turn your data into drama with your business storytelling to humanize your communication that connect on a primal emotional level. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park

Sabrina Hansen, Senior Director of Strategic Relationships at Embark Behavioral Health, shares how to create a culture of helping through connection and building meaningful and memorable relationships using storytelling. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park

Robin Landa, a distinguished professor at Kean University and author of The New Art of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential and Strategic Creativity: A Business Field Guide to Advertising, Branding and Design, shares her three-step process to coming up with better ideas more often. Improve your storytelling immediately with my The ABTs of Agile Communications™ quick online course to learn the agile narrative framework that all influential business communication is built.  Grab your copy of The Narrative Gym for Business, a short guide on crafting ABTs for all of your communications.  Read Brand Bewitchery: How to Wield the Story Cycle System™ to Craft Spellbinding Stories for Your Brand.  #StoryOn! ≈Park