You’ll get the StoryMaking keynote. It helps people find, create, collate and prepare stories for presentations, social media, or just about anywhere. Think of it as having two parts:

• there’s an inspirational element (‘cos there’s no point in having tools if you don’t have the urge to use them!) where we’ll look at
• specific tools and techniques used by professional storytellers to make it look effortless – but so impactful at the same time. (Why? Because inspiration without the tools is frustrating, pointless and eventually counter-productive!)

It’s not a talk-of-two halves though… inspiration, stories and tools are woven together to give the best outcome you can hope for.

And you’ll get me for the day of your conference (usually), not just a wham-bam delivery. So if you want me to run something like a breakout session or follow-up ‘hands on, how to’ session we can almost certainly sort something out.

You’ll also get the opportunity to get hold of follow-up materials! Participants can download a customised aide-memoir with your branding alongside mine which gives them all the notes on the presentation that they wish they’d taken but were two engaged to make at the time. 😉 Think of it as a mini-book that they can download.

Well there’s the mini-book they can download on the day (see above) – but they can download it any time! Your audiences also get access to a growing library of video mini-trainings called #TalkTactics! These include the tools I include in StoryMaking but also over a hundred others, on everything from “tricks to make your first slide more useful” and “how many questions to answer at the end of your presentation”.

They can also book me themselves of course, at a discount… but that’s going to help me as much as you! 🙂

Finally, behind StoryMaking is an in-depth training package that your audience can buy if they want to, as well. I’m working on a hybrid (physical/digital) product that will be available as soon as I’ve finished the beta tests!

There plenty of videos on the homepage for you. And there’s my TEDx. It’s on the TED website here. (Or YouTube here.) StoryMaking is more upbeat than the TEDx though, and more energetic.

Oh, and there’s this promise. I’m so confident that if you don’t think I’ve delivered value because of something I had control over, I’ll only invoice you for my expenses. My time would be free.

There’s a thin line between confidence and being cocky, I know. Forgive me!

By default, StoryMaking is about 30 minutes or so. There’s a huge amount of content curated to that duration of course, so it’s easy to expand it if your conference runs sessions of 40 or 45, or 60 minutes! There’s not much point in going below 30 minutes in terms of your value for money and no point at all below 20 minutes in terms of the content I can give the audience. (Hey, I’m good, but I can’t work that particular miracle!)

You can get a PDF of my SpeakerPack here which (I hope!) will answer most of your questions about things like images, marketing and so on.

I walk the talk, so this isn’t just a teaching session. Not just. There are two strands I weave together:

• the inspiration/motivation to find/use stories
• tools for finding them – and for telling them of course!

There’s almost no point in one without the other. And both, of course, are fun (as well as based on the best current research on how people communicate – I started out as a research scientist after all!).