Storytelling

I often hear clients say that they don’t have any good stories to tell. They think their stories always have to be about spectacular things that happened. Or that they have to have a big budget for fancy videos and big screen presentations. The truth is that a great

I used to work with a guy who chose to wrestle polar bears – literally – to avoid having to schmooze at a conference. As an introvert myself, I confess that I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit pretending to be on my phone to avoid making small

There is one thing you need to understand about story. One thing that drives it and makes it work.  You need to know this, before tackling the vagaries of archetypes and arch-enemies. Stories are packages of problems and solutions. — The telling of a story describes a quest to solve a

I spent a week in Calgary recently, facilitating the first part of an Appreciative Inquiry for faculty at a polytechnic to enhance teaching excellence. The AI method was quite new to some on the strategic team that hired me and they were uncertain about its effectiveness – so I was under