Make Your Ideas Land: Storytelling for Tech & Business Leaders
Sri Srikrishna
Professor, Author & Entrepreneur
Bikash Chowdhury
CMO, Operator & Entrepreneur
Turn your thinking into stories people understand, back, and act on
You are clear about the right thing to do. You have done the analysis. Yet what others take away doesn’t match what you intended. That’s the buy-in gap — where stakeholders hear you but don’t act.
Sound familiar?
You’re trying to get a decision through, but the trade-offs don’t land
You’re sharing a strategy, but people don’t see it the way you do
You’re explaining something complex, but it stays abstract
You’re aligning stakeholders, but everyone walks away with a different takeaway
In this 4‑week live course you’ll learn, practice and apply techniques to get leadership to back a bold idea, align a skeptical team, or close a stuck deal. No theory for theory’s sake. Just practical frameworks and real feedback from peers who face the same thing.
That’s what storytelling does in a business context.
It shows consequences and trade-offs so decisions can move
It reframes how people interpret a situation
It turns abstract ideas into something real and relatable
It creates shared understanding across teams and stakeholders
If your work depends on influencing others, this storytelling course will enable you to help people see the situation, the stakes, and the path forward clearly.
What you’ll learn
Master practical storytelling frameworks to inspire confidence, influence decisions and become the communicator everyone listens to.
Turn your thinking into a clear narrative that stakeholders can follow, trust, and act on
Show trade-offs and consequences so decisions move forward, not stall in discussion
Apply this directly to a real presentation you bring to the course
Translate data, strategy, and technical ideas into simple, structured narratives
Make your audience see what you see, without relying on more slides or explanation
Avoid information overload and keep focus on what actually matters
Adapt the same idea for execs, teams, and clients without losing clarity or intent
Use audience → intent → message to shape how you structure every conversation
Deliver ideas so people understand you the first time, without re-explaining
Create 8 - 10 stories from your real work that you can immediately use
Learn how to reuse and adapt them across meetings, presentations, and conversations
Build a simple system to keep capturing and refining new stories over time
Show your reasoning clearly so questions don’t keep coming back
Anticipate concerns and address them before they derail the conversation
Structure discussions so they move forward instead of looping
Learn directly from Sri & Bikash
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Who this course is for
Product & Tech leaders whose ideas don’t land
Your roadmap & ideas don't get the backing they deserve because the story doesn't come throughOperators & business leaders turning complexity into decisions
You have a plan, but you struggle with narratives people can follow or act onExperts moving from execution to influence
You need to align teams, influence leaders, and make your thinking visible
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Sri Srikrishna & Bikash Chowdhury in a real-time, interactive format.
Personalized feedback
Get direct feedback on your thinking, structure, and delivery. So your ideas are clearer, sharper, and easier to act on.
Community of peers
Learn alongside others solving similar influence and alignment challenges. See how different approaches land and what actually works.
Certificate of completion
Share your progress with your organization or network. More importantly, leave with stories you can actually use.
Lifetime access
Revisit frameworks, examples, and recordings whenever you need. So you can apply them as your role and challenges evolve.
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Schedule
Live sessions
2-3 hrs / week
2.5 hours live session with an optional 30 minutes of office hours starting from Session 2
Thu, Mar 5
2:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, Mar 18
1:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
1 hr / week
Reviewing concepts and applying them to a real-life project using an online workbook
Async content
1 hr / week
30 - 45 minutes of reading and watching videos
Testimonials
- The class was an empowering experience that ignited my public speaking spirit. Now that I've begun learning storytelling and its many competencies from this class I'm no longer in doubt of my ability to address audiences. I highly recommend this course to anyone invested in improving their public speaking or storytelling ability.
David Brade
Associate Director of Community Development Initiatives - I have always struggled with crafting compelling presentations. I wanted to learn to turn a presentation into an experience, so I took the storytelling class. I learned the underlying reasons we are so drawn to stories, and also got several tools to help me build my storytelling skills. I learned so much from the course and highly recommend it.
Amanda Humphrey
Chief Research Operations Officer - This course was an excellent introduction to professional storytelling. The breakdown of reference content clarified how to create an engaging story, and the practice exercises and feedback enabled me to form and present a story with confidence. Highly recommended for aspiring storytellers.
Roby Paul Kurien
Head of Product Development, AllGoVision - The course was interactive and engaging. I found the material particularly useful to understand and internalize what effective storytelling to an audience looks like. Through multiple short videos of varied styles of narration to diverse audiences we learnt how to deliver to our audience. Overall, I found it very useful.
Abhinav V.
Medical Professional
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