A Storied Career
Kathy Hansen's Blog to explore traditional and postmodern forms/uses of storytelling.
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Q&A with a Story Guru: Gregg Morris: Business Growth Requires Stories That Resonate Emotionally with Customers
See a photo of Gregg, his bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A. Q&A with Gregg Morris, Question 2: Q: How did you initially become involved with story/storytelling/narrative? What attracted you to this field? What do you love about it? A: My earliest memories are story-related, so I guess I’ve been involved in it since I was a young boy. My parents got married quite young, and we lived with my maternal grandmother when I was growing up. In effect, since both of my folks were working... |
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Q&A with a Story Guru: Gregg Morris: Applied Storytelling in Corporate and Non-profit Worlds Is Biggest Trend
Gregg Morris, of whom I learned probably in the last six months or so, has a blog, What’s Your Story?, that is — gasp — a bit of a “competitor” to A Storied Career. We both focus on applied storytelling and both “curate” content from the applied-storytelling world. Rather than feeling threatened, I am especially grateful to Gregg for picking up the curation slack during the time when I am still dealing with our move to Washington state and finishing... |
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Catching Up with Two Story Gurus
It’s always nice to share the activities of folks who’ve been part of my Q&A series. Recent interviewee Lisa Bloom is presenting this year at the International Coach Federation National Conference in October in Fort Worth, TX, on the topic of how Storytelling Empowers the Art of Coaching. Q&A subject Stephanie West Allen has co-authored a piece on fear and storytelling. |
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Stewart Marshall Offers White Paper on Financial Storytelling
Ever since I first encountered Stewart Marshall, the “financial storyteller,” I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the concept of financial storytelling. It has been difficult for me to grasp because I am not a quantitative thinker. Now Stewart has developed a lively, attractive, nicely illustrated white paper, Financial Storytelling: Making the Most of the Numbers, which is available for free download. First, Stewart defines financial storytelling: Financial Storytelling... |
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Moni's Story Ended Far Too Soon Yet Will Live On
This is a story I never expected to write. A dear friend, Monique, died suddenly yesterday at age 43. We were colleagues and friends at Stetson University, where we taught in the Management Department, and in fact, Monique was responsible for my getting into teaching, the job I’ve loved the most in my career. Back in 1996, long before I was truly qualified to teach at the college level, she suggested me for a teaching position in the department. Eventually I was asked to step aside in... |
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Q&A with a Story Guru: Penelope Starr: Storytelling Connections Create Community
See a photo of Penelope, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Q&A with Penelope Starr, Question 6: Q: You blog for TucsonCitizen.com, where the tagline of your blog is “Creating Community One Story at a Time.” In your experience, what are some of the ways stories help to create community? A: People come to Odyssey Storytelling because they want to hear stories from their friends and neighbors and because they want to hear from someone they might... |
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Q&A with a Story Guru: Penelope Starr: Writers and Actors are Different Kinds of Tellers
See a photo of Penelope, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A, Part 2, and Part 3. Q&A with Penelope Starr, Question 5: Q: If you could share just one piece of advice or wisdom about story/storytelling/narrative with readers, what would it be? A: If you want to tell a personal story then just BE YOURSELF! When people ask if the stories are true, we say they come from the lives of the tellers; things they’ve experienced or have been told (i.e., family stories) and they tell... |
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Permanent Entry: What Story Practitioners are Tweeting
Here’s a little widget with the tweets of all the story folks I follow on Twitter on my @AStoriedCareer account. It’s supposed to have a shell and a nice header. Who knows why it doesn’t. new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'list', rpp: 30, interval: 6000, title: 'Tweets by', subject: 'Story Practitioners', width: 300, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '99FF99', color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#ffffff', ... |
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Q&A with a Story Guru: Penelope Starr: The Time for Community Storytelling is Now
See a photo of Penelope, her bio, and Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2. Q&A with Penelope Starr, Questions 3 and 4: Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in human history and culture that makes storytelling so resonant with so many people right now? A: With people plugged into their own personal electronic devices, eating meals in their car, using the TV as a babysitter and turning to pharmaceuticals to control their... |
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Daily Literary Quote
Thought it would be nice to have a daily lit quote as an entry: if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('de2e1b2a-c9ff-4ae1-bf95-01cf18564f66');Get the Daily Literary Quote widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) |