Storytelling & Influencing for Leaders

Exceptional, experiential, and customized leadership programs focused on storytelling, ethical influencing and sales, rapid rapport and persuasion, developing an authentic voice, executive and stage presence, and presenting pitches and projects powerfully.

Build leaders who confidently engage any audience in complex and disruptive ideas, share bold proposals that gain emotional connection and traction, and use storytelling and story-crafting to drive investment, purchase, and action.

Key Benefits Of Our Leadership Training On Storytelling & Influencing

Storytelling For Leaders & Brands

Understand and leverage the power of narrative structure, inspirational speaking, persuasion techniques, and emotive communication to attract energy, resources, investment, and sponsorship.

Ethical Influencing & Persuasion

Explore how to ethically use cutting-edge persuasion techniques and the latest neuroscience and psychology of storytelling and influence to capture, captivate, and compel hearts and minds to change.

Storytelling Tools & Scripts

Use takeaway and reusable tools for designing and crafting stories that are emotionally compelling, rationally coherent, and drive focused action—and learn how to vary them to reach different audiences.

Presentation Skills & Authentic Voice

Practice how to speak with a clear, confident, congruent, and authentic voice that evokes enthusiasm, passion, and energy in diverse audiences—even in highly-charged and stressful environments.

Stage Presence & Connecting With Audiences

Learn often life-changing practices for developing executive and stage presence, for speaking publicly without fear, and for using engaging personal stories to connect with, and elevate, an audience.

Building Rapid Rapport & Leaving An Impact

Gain tips and hacks for quickly building resonance and rapport with diverse audiences, making ideas and proposals as sticky as possible, and getting things back on track when they (inevitably) head south.

All of our programs are customized and tailored to the context of your business. Get in touch so we can discuss how we can support your organization in navigating this brave new world.

Lead Facilitator on Storytelling & Influencing

Nick Jankel is an influential and internationally-recognized thought leader on how leadership, technology, innovation, and purpose are transforming the future of business and society—in an increasingly complex, digital, and disrupted world.

Nick inspires audiences and viewers to eliminate the confusion of our times as a futurist; take the pain out of business/digital/sustainable transformation; blast through the barriers that block innovation; and transform the challenges of teams and cultures by galvanizing creativity, energy, and action where they count most.

Jankel has worked with senior leaders from organizations like HSBC, Boots Walgreens, Unilever, Diageo, Google, Nike, Merck, Wal-Mart, and NHS; led systemic change programs with WWF and Oxfam; worked with entrepreneurs and social innovators on 4 continents; and lectured at world-class universities including Yale, Oxford, SciencesPo, UCL, and London Business School. He has a Triple First from Cambridge University in Medicine & Philosophy, and helped innovate the most successful TV show in history. In addition, Jankel has been a TV host and transformation coach on two network TV shows, helping celebrities change (MTV) and addicts transform (BBC). Furthermore, Jankel’s been a guest on CBS, Coast to Coast (twice), BBC News (on AI), Aspen Ideas Festival, Huffington Post, Hay House Radio, and much more.

Nick is also lead designer on an AI-powered platform and has been working in and around technology for 25 years with influential articles on AI published in major media outlets (e.g. BBC, Huffington Post, and more).

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Customized, Experiential & Transformative Programs

All of our programs are customized to your needs and tailored to the context of your business.

Fully Customized Programs & Sessions For Business Breakthroughs

We customize every program to meet and elevate your specific needs, ambitions, industry, and culture—drawing from our Self-To-System™ curriculum and 200 leadership capabilities map to drive business breakthroughs—and we also tailor each session to fit, and expand upon, the existing capabilities and confidence levels of your cohort

Creative, Emotive & Experiential Design For Profound Transformation

We innovate intensive emotive and experiential learning moments as possible to move your cohort from cognitively ‘knowing’ a topic to fully embodying it in their everyday attitudes and behaviors—aiming to rewire brains and nervous systems so leaders become the change you want to see

State-of-the-Art Brain-Based Tools & Practices For Optimal Results

We provide take-home tools and repeatable practices that have been iterated over decades to drive the highest quality outcomes (e.g. structuring emails, designing pitches for investment, finding authentic voice practices)—which participants learn during the program and master over a lifetime (with a perceptual license included)

“Deep Design” & Transformational Coaching For Maximum Impact

Our program designers and facilitators are not average trainers or project managers but masters of leadership transformation and the specific topics covered—so your program will be designed, evolved and improved, and facilitated by world-class experts that walk the talk, create all the content, and provide high-touch coaching during workshops

Get in touch so we can discuss how we can support your organization.

A pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional.

 

CEO, HSBC

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If you would like to discuss how we could help you and your leaders build capacity to influence and persuade people across functions and industries ethically yet powerfully, book a discovery call or send us an email.