E7: Lily Pender

About this episode

Lily Pender discusses the impact of storytelling on effective communication for leaders and organizations.

Lily Pender, co-founder of The Whole Story, explains how her theatre background has led to her helping leaders and organisations communicate more effectively through storytelling. She describes how storytelling techniques improve presentations, in-the-moment communication and strategy alignment by helping leaders deeply understand their audience, clarify their own relationship with a message, and make communication tangible, human and real. Her approach is practical and rooted in spoken word,...

People in this episode

Host: Martin Parr

Guest: Lily Pender

Topics covered

• storytelling
• communication
• leadership
• presentation skills
• audience engagement

Keywords

• storytelling techniques
• communication
• leadership
• presentations
• strategy alignment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Whole Story

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