WEMBA The Leader as Storyteller Workshop

WEMBA The Leader as a Storyteller Workshop

Before there was spoken language, there were stories.   Human interactions center on stories; we buy products, choose friends, rally behind leaders, and express our core values with stories.  Telling a story that exemplifies an essential message is a far more effective communication tool than simply supporting a message with facts, charts, graphs and any material that lacks emotion and fails to connect on a human level.  Stories also help those needed statistics come to life.   We remember stories; they impact us.  Stories are memorable because they reflect life, are composed of images rather than ideas, emotions rather than facts, and principles rather than cliche phrases.

Business leaders understand the power of a great story.  A story can motivate, inspire, change our thinking and, most importantly, rally others to action.  Being a great storyteller also means being an astute listener, being able to read an audience, and speak directly to them, with confidence, charisma and depth of character.  This workshop helps individuals develop these leadership skills through storytelling.

The Leader as Storyteller workshop asks participants to consider their own stories and experiences to understand the core beliefs that guide their lives.  This set of values becomes the leadership pinnacles that are communicated to others.  Each participant will examine and share transformational moments from their lives, moments of incredible impact and learning, success and failure that have shaped who they are as leaders.

Participants will be given a storytelling toolkit to help with both the form and content of what makes for a great story.  We will pay considerable attention to a story’s use and place in a business context, providing powerful tools that can regularly be applied to connect to and influence stakeholders.  Individuals will walk away having found, developed and told a personal story that is meaningful and connects to the audience.  Additionally, participants will begin a process of personal reflection that is necessary to find and share stories that motivate, entertain, and inspire.

Snapshot

  • Number of seats: 200
  • Availability:  (based on class schedule): PHL 46, 47; SF 46, 47
  • Dates: September 28, 2021 | 8:00pm-9:30pm ET
  • Location:  Zoom

Facilitator

Quinn Bauriedel
Owner and Co-Artistic Director, Pig Iron Theater Company

Quinn is a founder and co-artistic director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company and has been a leading artistic voice in the company for over 20 years. Quinn has toured around the world with his productions and has taught workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad.

In 2016 he was named an Eisenhower Fellow. He has also been awarded a Henry Luce Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, a Fox Foundation Actor Fellowship (one of six awards given out nationally), a USA Knight Fellowship, and an Independence Foundation Fellowship. Quinn regularly teaches leadership sessions for Wharton’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education and for the Wharton MBA Leadership Learning program, as well as with University of Pennsylvania’s Chief Learning Officer Program. Additionally, he has taught leadership workshops for Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Credit Suisse, U.S. Trust, Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Exelis, FINRA, Danisco, and ADP, among others.

He has taught theater courses and workshops at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Stanford, Swarthmore College, UVA, Georgetown, Yale, Penn, Wesleyan, and American University, among many others. Quinn brings fresh insights and cutting-edge thinking to all of the workshops he offers, including work on Leadership Presence, Collaborative Creativity, The Leader as Storyteller, and experiential modules designed to strengthen teams and to develop leadership capacity.

Quinn is an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts/Pig Iron and is the Director of the MFA Program in Devised Performance Program.