Everyday Business Storytelling - by Janine Kurnoff & Lee Lazarus (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A practical, easy-to-use guide to transform business communications into memorable narratives that drive conversations--and your career--forward

In Everyday Business Storytelling: Create, Simplify, and Adapt A Visual Narrative for Any Audience, visual communication and storytelling experts Janine Kurnoff and Lee Lazarus leverage decades of experience helping executives at the world's top brands--including Colgage-Palmolive, Nestlé, T-Mobile, Medtronic and Meta--bring clarity and meaning to their business communications. Whether you're building a presentation, crafting a high-stakes email, or need to influence the conversation in your next meeting with an executive, or have to communicate with data, Everyday Business Storytelling offers an insightful exploration of how to develop compelling business narratives that meet diverse audience needs.

You'll discover how to use a simple, repeatable framework to transform your ideas, data, and insights into an authentic, persuasive story. Within this professional development book, you'll also find clever data visualization and visual display techniques to help humanize your stories and build an audience connection, leading to improved presentation skills and better data literacy. Whether you're looking to enhance your executive presence, align teams, become an expert at converting data analysis into data insights, or want to communicate change and influence audiences, Everyday Business Storytelling is for you.

Everyday Business Storytelling is an indispensable guide to making your communications stick in the minds of your audience and drive change. It enables you to display confidence and communicate with clarity regardless of how complex your message is. If you're a busy, talented businessperson looking for tactics to improve your executive presentations, one-pagers, emails, or virtual meetings, this communication book is for you.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR EVERYDAY BUSINESS STORYTELLING

"We've made storytelling a top priority at Nestlé, working with Janine and Lee's talented team to upgrade the skill, speed, and agility of our sales force. I'm a big fan of their remarkably simple and logical methodology. If your organization is serious about business storytelling, you need this hugely useful resource."
--JIM COYNE, President of Nestlé USA Sales

"You can have the most talented people in your organization, but if they don't know how to translate information into influential stories, you're facing an uphill challenge. Hands down the most practical and applicable way to craft business narratives. An invaluable resource for leaders and teams who want to inspire and motivate people to action."
--SHANE WALL, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the White House and Former Chief Technology Officer at HP Inc.

"This book makes a monster point: We absorb each other in personal stories all the time so why can't we use, as readily, the same attention-grabbing techniques to further our business pursuits? Janine and Lee's book is a brilliant and easy on-ramp to business storytelling."
--MICHAEL STREEFLAND, Executive Communications Consultant to Netflix, Walt Disney Company and Facebook

You've got one shot to get your ideas heard in your next big meeting, presentation or email. But you're busy. So you leverage what you can: facts, data, charts, slides...and end up with an avalanche of scrambled messages, impossible-to-read decks, and no clear call to action--what we've dubbed the FrankendeckTM.

Everyday Business Storytelling combats this crisis of missed opportunities by arming you with a simple, practical storytelling framework--loaded with real-world examples. Discover how to flex your story to diverse audience needs, visualize it and adopt a common language to craft audience-centric business stories that drive the conversation forward.

About the Author

For over two decades, Silicon Valley-bred sisters JANINE KURNOFF and LEE LAZARUS have helped teams at the world's top brands--including Facebook, Nestlé, Marriott, T-Mobile, and Medtronic--become strategic visual communicators. As co-founders of The Presentation Company, they are dedicated to helping talented businesspeople in all functions, at all levels, bring clarity and meaning to their ideas and influence decisions through storytelling.