Stepping Into Your Story

Janel Dyan
Founder
JD
www.janeldyan.com/

Janel Dyan is a sought after executive brand strategist, speaker and author of Story. Style. Brand.(tm) Why Corporate Results Are a Matter of Personal Style. She is an expert on how to build a story to achieve brand alignment for both company and leadership success—supporting the rise of women in leadership in an era when marketing is the art of storytelling. Her work has been seen by millions through public experiences at Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forums, Global Philanthropy Forum, World Affairs Councils of America. In 2017, Janel established Beyond Us(tm), providing opportunities to build confidence in women through a platform for sharing clothes with other women who are ready to take the next step in their professional lives.

In this podcast, Janel explains why first impressions and story telling are so critical to building strong leaders. She talks about the three key steps to establish truth, trust, and loyalty in storytelling and tells us how executive women can pass on not just their clothing but their stories to others.

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The Stories We Tell: How Transforming Numbers into Narratives Drives Action and Gets Results

Nancy Duarte
Founder
Duarte, Inc.
duarte.com/

Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Time Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Cosmopolitan, LA Times, and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. She’s written five best-selling books, four of which have won awards. Her latest book is DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story.

In this podcast, Nancy explains how storytelling can be critically important to communicating data. She talks about how best to communicate with executives, what her analysis of multiple brands has led her to conclude about the importance of a data point of view, and explains how effectively understanding and communicating data findings can positively change your career trajectory.

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