Conflict drives the narrative and creates opportunities…

“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with every phrase.”

— Calvin Niles

“A story unfolds over time and often involves characters and events. In the corporate context, they often serve the aim to 'inCITE': connect, inspire,…

— Calvin Niles

“Your key message is the one thing you want your audience to take away. It is what you want to convey and how it…

— Calvin Niles

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

“Imagine a room of a hundred people huddled around a control panel, doing everything in their power to capture the attention of billions of…

— Calvin Niles

“People often think of storytelling as a performative act of persuading others, conveying messages, and selling ideas. But we must recognize that storytelling also…

— Calvin Niles

“It is not about being the loudest voice in the room; it’s about being the most genuine one.”

— Calvin Niles

“They know that conflict drives passion, so they amplify our differences and toughe their rhetoric'.”

— a CNN journalist

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

— Tridha Choudhury

There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of…

— Missy Mazzoli

This is the Ben Crump model: He goes into a city, creates a narrative, cherry picks facts to establish, to prove that narrative, creates…

— Daniel Cameron

“Free Flowing Dialogue “Have you ever been engaged in a conversation which was so dynamic that you were both firing on all cylinders, in…

— Susan C. Young

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

“During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their…

— Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger