Your Leadership Story: Use your life experience to influence and inspire

What sets the world s greatest leaders apart when they speak?

They speak powerfully from the heart, sharing stories and insights from their experience. From their struggles and failures to their successes and triumphs, they use their words to touch and move us, inspiring trust, confidence and loyalty. Learn how to unlock your own leadership story. Captivate people with your ideas and excite them with your vision. Whether in meetings, pitches or presentations, sharing your leadership story will build your reputation, enhance your profile and motivate people.

Discover:

• how storytelling inspires and even changes minds;
• how to define your message and story in a compelling way;
• the essential elements to structure your story for real impact;
• how to communicate your story in a way that feels authentic and alive;
• how to embody and live a greater story that enhances your power and presence.

Your Leadership Story will give you the courage to share your experience, enabling you to transform your business, empower yourself and maybe even move mountains.

Whether presenting, pitching, speaking from stage or leading meetings, Your Leadership Story is about how to connect and engage with people by being vulnerable, human and real - revealing some of your own struggles and breakthroughs rather than hiding behind a starch-fronted veneer. When you share your own story and reveal your human face, people are more likely to connect and engage with your message and you will develop more trust and loyalty because they know who you are and where you are coming from. As you take them on your journey using the magic of story telling, you are ultimately more likely to inspire and influence them. The book takes the reader through a five stage process to:

1. Acknowledge the power and potential of story - know when and how to use it, and to what ends: the Seven Cs (Connection, Credibility, Community etc);
2. Uncover and define your message and story - learn which kind of personal stories to avoid and which to use;
3. Craft and write a compelling story - includes the Essential Elements to include when structuring an impactful story;
4. Deliver and tell a powerful story - tips from professional speakers, actors and hypnotherapists!
5. Evolve your story and live a greater story day by day as you develop your leadership vision