Monday 21 October 2019 - 9:00am to 12:30pm

Venue: General Assembly - 12a/45 William St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Over the last decade business storytelling has emerged as a powerful communication skill and leadership competency. In this workshop, Gabrielle Dolan will provide compelling reasons and insights for why leaders need to embrace storytelling to connect, engage and inspire. The audience will experience first-hand the power of sharing personal stories to communicate business messages. In addition, they will gain valuable insights on what makes a story a story and how to avoid the most common mistakes when sharing stories in business.

In this workshop you will:

• Understand the various storytelling styles in business.
• Explore what makes a story a story.
• Discover the difference between traditional storytelling and business storytelling.
• Learn how to construct, structure and deliver a story.
• Develop stories that engage and inspire individuals and teams.
• Gain a framework that will help you generate purposeful stories in the future.
• Discuss the various applications of storytelling in business.

The workshop also includes a 90-day follow up program consisting of a weekly email containing a short (1-2min) video to help participants consolidate and integrate their learning and each participant will take home a copy of her best-selling book, Stories for Work.

This workshop is normally valued at over $500 but as an active and valued member of the IABC Victoria community, Gabrielle Dolan has offered it to IABC Victoria members only at the very special price of $125. This a one-time offer and is limited to 30 participants (no extensions).

Not a member but want to come along? There’s a way to fix that. Join IABC Victoria today! You will not only get to hear the wisdom of Gabrielle, but you will save a few coins too. The cost of your 12-month membership plus attendance at The Art and Science of Storytelling is less than the price you’d usually pay to attend the workshop. It's a win, win!

What others have said…

Loved every minute of it!
I recently attended Gabrielle's Business Storytelling Workshop and loved every minute of it! From the moment the workshop started it was clear it was going to be a fun learning environment. Gabrielle delivers the content in such an engaging way that you actually don't realise you’re learning until you put the theory into practise. I highly recommend this workshop or working with Gabrielle to improve storytelling capability within your business.
Suzanne Richards,
Internal Communications, 7-Eleven

A standout communicator
Gabrielle Dolan is a standout communicator who can inspire and provide actionable tools, methodology and behaviour change to enable executives and teams to enter the world of real communication. She also happens to be a very funny individual. I highly recommend her storytelling workshops.
Kim Anderson
Digital Innovation Lead, Cloud Innovation Centres at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

High energy, engaging and interactive
I was delighted to have welcomed Gabrielle to facilitate a storytelling workshop for us in New York City. Recommended from our team in Australia - shows that good things come from 'down under'!, the workshop was high energy, engaging and interactive (and a little uncomfortable as you step outside your comfort zone). The feedback from the group that attended was excellent - praising the content and delivery. The follow-up program has also been well received...reinforcing that great storytelling takes practice.
Nicholas Collins
President - Americas at Telstra | Technology & Telecommunications | Diversity & Inclusion Advocate

About Gabrielle Dolan
Gabrielle Dolan can tell you a story or two. In fact, it was while working in a senior leadership role at NAB that she realised the power of storytelling in effective business communication. Since that epiphany, Gabrielle has found her calling as a global thought leader on authentic leadership and business storytelling.

A highly sought-after keynote speaker, educator and author, Gabrielle has worked with thousands of high-profile leaders from around the world and helped countless companies and multinationals to humanise their communications, including Accenture, ANZ, EY, KPMG, Visa, Telstra, Uber, Australia Post, NAB, Amazon and International Committee Red Cross to name a few.

She is the bestselling author of five books including: Ignite: Real Leadership, Real Talk, Real Results which reached the top 5 on Australia’s bestselling business books. Her other books include Storytelling for Job Interviews, Hooked: How Leaders Connect, Engage and Inspire with Storytelling, Stories for Work: The Essential Guide to Business Storytelling and her latest book, Real Communication: How to be you and lead true.

Bringing humanity to the way businesspeople communicate isn’t just a career, it’s a calling. The ultimate expression of her passion for the cause is her Jargon Free Fridays global revolution (jargonfreefridays.com).