In this course you will learn next-level narrative frameworks to help you level-up in your career and convey your role and value in any situation.

Whether you’re a tech leader in product, design, data, marketing etc, the challenges are the same:

– How can you influence key executive decision-makers?

– How can you convey something new and technical without hitting a wall of resistance?

– How can you package your narrative to leave a lasting impression on any type of audience?

Maybe you feel stuck in the Messy Middle, trying to sort out bigger questions about your work, identity, and what’s next.

– Want to level-up in your role or company?

– Need to find a different organisation that’s a better fit?

– Plan to launch your own thing (startup or consultancy)?

Here’s what you can expect from the course 👇

Course Outcomes ⛰️

1. Build a narrative for a priority project or high-stakes initiative with immediate ROI

2. Develop 4 skills of influence: Structured thinking. Buy-in. Data storytelling. XFN collaboration.

3. Leave with a playbook of 15 narrative methods that you can use again and again.

4. Unlock a career-defining stack of competencies that protect you from AI taking your job and that’ll elevate you from 95 % of your peers.

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.

– Storytelling 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.

Format 🙋‍♀️

– Participate in 5 interactive zoom sessions, with lots of breakouts, peer interaction

– Get mentored by Michael with laser hot seat coaching and peer to peer feedback

– Stay for the After-Party Hangouts “unofficial” extended Q&A; nobody leaves feeling hungry 🙌

– Lifetime access to the recordings, workbooks & templates to build Narrative Intelligence™ over time.

– Case study breakdowns from different industries, e.g. data science, product growth, social change.

– ChatGPT Swipe Files as a bonus with prompts to get AI to do 70% of the heavy lifting for you.

Your Peers 🤝

Join executives, product managers, design leads, marketers, data scientists, people ops, and other disciplines. Plus change-makers, coaches, and consultants from 17 countries. Leaders from Asana, Google, Meta, Autodesk, Mozilla, Cruise, Genentech, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Microsoft, Moody's, Zillow, Uber are alumni our recent courses and found them to be a difference-maker.