Storytelling - Moving People to Act
DSIL VC Workshop A | TUESDAY | 6 October @ 1pm Bangkok
Featured Speaker: Robert Wolfe, Faculty, THNK School of Creative Leadership
Stories that move to act
In this session Robert Wolfe will show participants how to use stories from their own life and the world of their audience to inspire action. This interactive session will cover the mechanics of crafting a compelling message that inspires a call to action. Be sure to read the articles below and watch the Obama video to be ready!
Read
101 - Introduction
- Storytelling - Have Made Your Call a Gift?; Robert Wolfe
- Telling Your Public Story; Marshall Ganz
201- Intermediate
- Public Narrative and Story of Self; Marshall Ganz, Harvard University
- Storytelling Strong Enough to be Weak; Robert Wolfe
WATCH
- See minutes 7 -15 of Obama's 2004 DNC speech (below)
Your Next Steps!
Speaker Profile
Robert Wolfe, Faculty, THNK School of Creative Leadership
Robert Wolfe loves helping people to risk a little more than they would otherwise, to get them out of their comfort zone and try new behaviour. Robert enjoys turning complicated concepts into simple stories that helps everyone understand. His background is in management training, leadership coaching, improvisation acting and writing (children’s novels) and he has brought these strands of his life all together and now helps leaders use storytelling as a way of moving others into action.
Robert is a leadership coach, storytelling trainer and innovation facilitator at THNK, the Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership. He was born in Australia and educated in Holland where he studied business at Nijenrode and International Politics at the UvA; since then he has also lived in London where he published a book on corporate strategy, and worked as a management trainer in Sydney.
Website: http://robertwolfe.nl/
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Nerd Out!
- Seeing the Stories, Robert Wolfe