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Susan Lindner is the Founder and CEO of Innovation Storytellers, a leading innovation storytelling consulting firm. She is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, workshop leader, messaging strategist, storytelling coach, and the world’s leading expert on innovation storytelling.
Lindner draws from her initial experiences as an anthropologist and international aid worker in rural Thailand in the 1990s, where she shared stories that helped at-risk populations disproportionately affected by AIDS to slow the virus’ spread. Today, as a 20-year communications expert, she is committed to using those same storytelling skills to inspire innovation leaders everywhere to become incredible storytellers and ensure that their innovations get the resources, runway, and recognition they deserve.
Lindner is the host of Innovation Storytellers, a weekly podcast that takes the mystery out of how to communicate breakthrough ideas to the people who matter most. Every week, Lindner interviews top global innovation leaders from companies like Amazon, Bloomberg, Cisco, Corning, and Tesla about the stories that moved their innovations past the boardroom, lab, and production line and into our everyday lives.
Lindner speaks at global conferences, consulates, and trade organizations. She has worked with C-level leaders and teams from over 60 countries at Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, AT&T, Arm & Hammer on their innovation storytelling strategies. The result? Those innovation leaders become incredible storytellers who go on to change the world. Lindner is driven to ensure every breakthrough idea reaches its finish line through powerful stories that connect to every listener and power that brilliant idea forward.
Speech Topics
Innovation Storytelling: How to Bridge Divides & Win Support For Your Breakthrough Ideas™
Discover how to overcome barriers to innovation, or resistance to change, by using the Innovation Storytelling method to create organizational alignment in this three-part innovation workshop series. Participants will learn how to tell better stories that engage and align key stakeholders, get audiences on board with their vision, and deliver maximum impact.
This program is perfect for innovation leaders who:
- Are under pressure to create new market opportunities.
- Need to communicate their breakthrough ideas in a way that is easily understood by the C-Suite, shareholders and stakeholders at home and around the world.
- Need others to support and champion their work.
The audience will leave with:
- A clear understanding of how to get other people on board with their breakthrough ideas.
- A blueprint for creating stories that inspire any audience into action.
- A process that empowers them to communicate with confidence.
Impactful Storytelling for Employee Engagement™
Provide your leaders with the specific tools they need to engage their teams with this talk.
Attendees will learn through Harvard Business Review research and real world case studies from Cisco, Patagonia and more how employees are embracing their own brand of authentic storytelling that becomes a recruiting magnet and an engagement tool.
Leaders will uncover the critical authentic storytelling techniques and tools necessary to inspire employees to become more involved and engaged at work and to spread the word about their amazing workplace.
This program is perfect for leaders who:
- Need to get employees on board with change in order to meet business objectives.
- Want to inspire those they lead to become more involved and engaged at work.
- Need talent retention programs to inspire and grow recruitment activities.
The audience will leave with:
- The critical storytelling techniques and tools necessary to motivate, engage, and inspire employees.
- New strategies to use current internal comms and social platforms to bring teams together.
- Confidence in retaining top talent by remaining true to their employer brand.
Mastering the Message™
Just having a great product or service is not enough to gain traction with key stakeholders. This talk, which can also be delivered as a workshop, will prepare innovation leaders to embark on a successful sales or marketing campaign by equipping them with a powerful message that reaches their targets where it matters most.
This program is perfect for innovation leaders who:
- Have a new product or service and need to gain traction with key prospects and stakeholders.
- Are tasked with creating a successful sales or marketing campaign for new innovative products or services.
- Need a powerful message that creates buy-in and drives sales.
The audience will leave with:
- The exact blueprint to successfully map purpose to product, so that people pay attention.
- A deeper understanding of emotional essence and “WHY” behind a message that instantly connects with customers and the press.
- The confidence to lead a successful campaign that resonates with the right target audience and inspires people into action.
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