Influencing with Story™

Watch the replay:

Next steps:

• Talk to your Advantage partner or contact us to learn more about how to bring an Influencing with Story™ learning journey to your organization.
• Expand your skills! Try our Influence Inside ™ mini learning journey: apg1.us/influence-learning-journey
• Send us your feedback! (scan the QR code)

What's your story?

Stories compel others to listen. They can tap into our heads and hearts and draw our attention in a way that thoughts, data, and opinions, on their own, cannot.

Organizations, leaders, and individuals all need to be able to articulate a compelling story that resonates with their brand, mission, and vision. 

Storytelling is a learned capability. Influencing With Story™ is a dynamic, engaging learning journey that helps participants develop the skills to be effective influencers through the use of stories.

Participants will:

• Tap into a proven structure for creating powerful stories
• Learn how to integrate the 4C’s of influence into their stories
• Develop strength in creating and delivering compelling, inspiring stories

Organizations will benefit from:

• An increased flow of innovative ideas
• Improved cross-functional working relationships
• Increased speed of employee buy-in to organizational changes
• Increased employee commitment

Influencing with Story™ is a discovery-based on-site or live virtual learning journey that focuses on building skills in influencing others through the use of stories.

You will have fun, you will feel challenged, and you will finish with a specific story for influencing a real-life stakeholder. Additionally, you will have new skills to add to your toolbox for increasing your influence power.

The full learning journey from our thought leader partners at Ocean Beach Consulting provides access to resources on an online learning platform for pre-work (on-demand modules) and post-work (impact survey, certificate, additional resources) for 90 days.

Ocean Beach Consulting creates development solutions that inspire and develop employees to influence and lead positive change within their organizations.

About our presenter, Kelly Dozois

For over 20 years, Kelly Dozois has worked with large international companies to support the implementation of their business strategies through the design and development of training and organization development solutions. Her areas of focus are leadership and communication skill development. She believes in collaborating to design integrated performance improvement solutions that are business relevant and demonstrate a clear return on investment.

She designs and facilitates world-class leadership development programs and provides targeted executive coaching that produces immediate impact. Some of her client highlights include Apple, Nike, Verisign, Salesforce, Cargill, Guidewire, Levi Strauss & Co., Dutch, and The Gap.

Prior to founding Ocean Beach Consulting, Ms. Dozois was Vice President of Human Resource Development for the Gap Corporation, where she was responsible for the development of 160,000 employees worldwide and the executive development of senior management. She spearheaded the design and development of Gap’s Executive Leadership Development Program and Targeted Executive Development process. She also initiated Gap Inc.’s Organization Development department, with a focus on designing change management strategies to maximize multimillion-dollar technology investments.

Prior to the Gap, Ms. Dozois was Regional Director for an international management consulting firm specializing in Leadership/ Management and Sales and Service training solutions. Ms. Dozois holds an MS in Educational Technology and a BS in Health Science from San Diego State University. She is also certified as an executive coach.