Influence at Scale unlocks your ability to get investment, buy-in, and alignment.

This is a highly-immersive, learn-by-doing storytelling sprint. First, you'll select a high-value project: a strategic priority or OKR for practical application and measurable ROI. Next, you’ll shape and refine a compelling narrative to accelerate the project's velocity. Finally, you’ll enhance your power, people, and persuasion skills to execute and drive the narrative forward.

The more complex and technical your work the better. Including AI, DeFi, healthtech, product growth, agile, data governance, or any other disruptive technology or transformation. Designed to get you immediate traction, this exclusive community accelerates your career into an executive role, positioning you as a leader people respect, listen to, and put trust in your decisions.

COHORT 10 STARTS OCT 22 / 2 OF 15 SPOTS AVAILABLE / APPLY TODAY

6-week sprint (with a 1 week holiday break). Weekly working sessions via Zoom, with individualized real-time feedback from Michael and your cohort peers. You'll also get private 1-on-1 coaching with a Storied coach, plus extended Office Hours thru Q1 to ensure your successful implementation. You'll join an elite group of leaders with alumni from companies like Meta, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Salesforce, Cruise, Yelp, Nielsen, Discovery+, Accenture, Genentech, Bain Capital, and venture-backed startups.

While storytelling tips and tricks are helpful, they’re not enough to navigate the rapid pace of change and complexity. This program is different. Develop the mindset, skillsets, and capabilities for serious growth in your role and impact. If you put in the reps, we guarantee results or your money back.

WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE ⛰️

1. Build and ship a narrative that gets you investment, buy-in, and agreement with executives

2. Leave with a playbook of 20+ narrative methods & tools that you've learned and will use on the daily

3. Unlock the self-limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors that stand in your way

4. Build a peer community that offers quality non-judgmental feedback unlike anywhere else

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

– How to get instant buy-in for your ideas

– How to demonstrate rigorous thinking

– How to turn complex data into a story

– How to reduce friction in rapid communications

– How to manage up, down, and across

– How to stand out and have your voice heard

– How to build trust with difficult stakeholders

– How to prepare for an executive presentation

– How to win at the game of “memo culture”

– How to overcome imposter syndrome

WHY NARRATIVE ✨

– We live in the era of data and information overload

– But the data never speaks for itself

– Those who can make sense of the story influence and drive complex decisions

– Narrative is not just ‘a soft-skill’ or a ‘nice to have

– It's a core capability of leadership

– It’s what you need if you’re trying to get buy-in, investment, or shared action on anything

– It’s #1 competency required to advance to a C-suite, VP, or Director role

ABOUT THE METHODS

You’ll benefit from more than 20,000 hours of testing and validating these narrative methods inside 350+ leading organizations. I've been a long-time advisor to executives and teams in Silicon Valley, influencing more than $13B in strategic investments inside Meta, Google, Salesforce, Genentech, Uber, and venture-backed startups. This includes more than a dozen product teams at Meta like Newsfeed, Monetization, Messenger on executive H1/H2 reviews with Mark Zuckerberg. I also deliver 30-40 storytelling training sessions a year to product builders and GTM teams across the worlds of tech, finance, healthcare, etc. If you work in a "highly-matrixed" environment, you'll find this to be a high-value approach for unlocking the intangibles that get you executive buy-in, investment, and agreement.

COHORT 10 STARTS OCT 22 / 2 OF 15 SPOTS AVAILABLE / APPLY TODAY