This program can also be titled: Lead, Engage & Persuade with Storytelling, or a title to match your conference theme.
Logic explains. Stories persuade. It’s not that a logical presentation doesn’t contain the right information. It’s that information presented in a logical and linear format often fails to engage the listener and make an emotional connection. If you don’t make an emotional connection, your facts and data will fall on deaf ears.
Everyone has facts and data to back up their position. But none of your competition has your stories. Stories connect with stakeholders, customers and employees as no other form of communication can.
When you learn how to be better storyteller, your ability to influence, persuade and sell increases exponentially, immediately. The time to get started is now.
Keynotes or Training: In Doug’s inspiring, instructional and high-energy programs, you will experience the power of storytelling to engage, inspire and lead more effectively.
Doug’s keynotes and training are both instructive and entertaining. He brings a performer’s instinct for humor and fun, as well as a teacher’s need to provide step-by-step instruction.
You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, and you’ll grow. That’s a winning combination!
Doug Stevenson is one of the country’s most sought-after experts on corporate storytelling. He is the creator of The Story Theater Method for strategic storytelling in business, and has shared his storytelling methodology from Boston to Bogota, San Francisco to Singapore, and Las Vegas to London.
He has spoken to groups as small as 25 and as large as 2,500. From boardrooms to ballrooms, retreat centers to convention centers, Doug has been “bringing it” since 1996.
Let Doug customize a storytelling keynote, training or breakout session for your organization. He’ll incorporate your message and theme into his program and create a customized story especially for your event.
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People learn by doing. In this breakout session, Doug will perform a story, then debrief it, revealing how deliberate crafting transformed it from an ordinary story to one that is engaging and makes a relevant point to the audience he is speaking to.
Using a workbook, Doug will teach people how to find and develop their own relevant stories. He will also coach volunteers to demonstrate that anyone can implement these techniques to improve a story’s impact, and become more engaging and confident. He will teach you how to use stories to stimulate emotional triggers, and activate the listener’s imagination for greater retention of important data and information.
This session can be customized for leadership, marketing, sales, fundraising or executive power and presence.
A small sampling of Doug’s storytelling in business clients include: Amgen, AbbVie, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Caterpillar, Cisco Systems, Coca-Cola, ConAgra Foods, Deloitte, Genentech, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Rockwell Collins, SAP, Wells Fargo, USAA, US Bank, Verizon, and hundreds of associations and non-profits.
Contact us now to check Doug’s availability!