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Finding the stories hiding in your own experience
Signature Keynote
Leadership Storytelling
People don't follow strategy decks. They follow stories they can see themselves in.
StorytellingCommunicationLeading change
The Talk
What your audience walks away with.
Shannon is a pilot, an executive and a writer with an MFA in creative writing. In this keynote she shows leaders how to find the stories already in their experience, shape them so they land, and use them to explain change, build trust and move a room.
Who It's For
Executives and managers leading change
Communications and people teams
Emerging leaders stepping into bigger rooms
Outcomes
Four things they'll take back to work.
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A simple structure that makes a story land
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Using story to explain change and build trust
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Credibility through honesty, not polish
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Her intro with the Apache Helicopter Video was a real attention-getter. The audience remained silent as she told her story.
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