Audience Quote by Calvin Niles

“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