workshops
The storytelling leader
Michael’s most requested workshop.
A full day of finding and building the stories your team needs to be telling — about who you are, what you do, and why it matters. Some lecture, more workshop. People are on their feet telling stories early, and by the end of the day every team has a message built and delivered out loud.
You'll leave with:
The specific stories worth telling — surfaced from your own work, not borrowed from a case study
A repeatable way to shape any story so it actually lands
A message your team has built, told, and gotten feedback on, ready to use immediately
A kit of physical tools — the Story Canvas, the Leadership Story Deck, and more — you'll use long after the day ends
Who it's for: Leadership teams, sales teams, and organizations in the middle of change — anyone who needs people to move, believe, or understand something complex. Works for groups of 10 to 100. Available in person or virtually.
the art of curiosity
A half-day, out-of-your-seat workshop on the skill underneath good work with people: staying curious when it would be easier to assume. Through a series of playful, high-participation challenges, teams practice reading what's actually going on in a room, asking the question behind the question, and surfacing their quick-made assumptions — together, out loud.
You'll leave with:
A shared language for the moment a team stops asking and starts assuming — and how to catch it
Practice asking the question behind the question, so you're solving the real problem instead of the stated one
Sharper awareness for internal biases and assumptions
A team that has laughed together and thought together, which changes how they work together afterward
Who it's for: Client-facing teams, leadership teams, and any group whose work depends on understanding people well before acting. Especially good as an offsite anchor or a reset for teams that have gotten comfortable. Half-day, in person, groups of 10–60.
the narrative blueprint
Ask five people in your organization what you're really about and you'll get five answers. You've rewritten the messaging twice and it still doesn't land. The values are on the wall; but not always in the behavior.
That's not a messaging problem. It's a narrative problem — and no amount of creative wordsmithing solves it.
This workshop gives your team one of Michael’s trademark diagnostic tools to see your org’s guiding narrative clearly — what belief it rests on, who it casts as the hero, what pain it names, what it promises, what it claims is standing in the way — so you can then rebuild it on purpose.
You'll leave with:
A clear read of the narrative your organization is actually running, including the gap between what you say and what you live
The Blueprint itself — a tool your team can turn on any story: a competitor's positioning, a market shift, your own internal messaging
A guiding narrative your team rebuilt together, rather than inherited
Shared language, so leadership and marketing are finally telling the same story
Who it's for: Leadership and marketing teams that need to get clear on their guiding narrative — especially organizations in transition: post-merger, mid-rebrand, new strategy, or stuck saying something that stopped being true. Half or full day, in person (virtual is possible, but not ideal).
Custom workshop
Some conversations are too important for you to lead.
Not because you can't — but because you're in them. Nobody can hold the room well and be a participant in it at the same time. So the strategic planning session keeps getting pushed. The values conversation stays vague enough that everyone can agree. The conflict on your team goes another quarter unnamed. The retreat happens, everyone is gracious, and nothing changes.
That's the work I'm brought in for. We start with what's actually going on — not what's on the agenda — and I build the process around it. Then I hold the room, so you get to be in it.
Groups most often bring me in for:
Values discernment
Strategic planning and visioning
Staff and leadership retreats
Surfacing what a team knows and generating new ideas
Building real connection on a team
Navigating a difficult group conversation
Mediating a conflict
How it works: A conversation first — what's happening, what's at stake, what you need to be true when we're done. I design from there. A few hours to several days, in person or virtual.
The art of public speaking
Two types of people struggle to give a good presentations.
One has never done it and is terrified. The other has done it two hundred times and is bored.
It's the same problem: Both of them are somewhere other than the room.
This workshop puts you back in it. Three parts: the fundamentals most people were never actually taught, the skills that turn a presentation into a connection, and real practice with live coaching before you leave.
You'll leave with:
Solid fundamentals — what to do with your slides, your body, your voice, and the silence
Micro-storytelling: how to weave your own experience into the material so people trust you, not just the deck
Clarify, reflect, dig — question skills that let you read a room and adjust in the moment instead of pushing through the script
Actual reps. You'll present, get coached on the spot, and feel the difference the same day (if time permits)
Who it's for: Anyone who presents as part of the job — sales teams, brand ambassadors, business development, fundraisers, trainers, executives. Works for seasoned presenters who've gone mechanical and for people stepping in front of a room for the first time; the session gets calibrated to the group. Half day, 10–40 people.
Running a mixed-experience team, or a group of brand-new speakers? Say so when we talk — there's a version built for that.
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