See how stories can improve presentations, meetings, and more.
Use the power of stories to connect with your team and your customers!
Storytelling is a powerful tool you can use to improve presentations, share a vision, sell products, and connect with customers and colleagues. Join national award-winning storyteller, Andy Offutt Irwin, and leadership expert, Kelly Vandever, as they show you how to create, organize, and use stories to heighten your interactions with co-workers and customers.
Powering Productivity, One Brain at a Time!
Combining TV-style video production with modern graphics and animation, Bigger Brains courses are popular with both learners and training professionals around the world. Our top teachers and subject matter experts have real-world experience and create the most realistic and comprehensive training courses possible. Bigger Brains courses are built in a unique “Teacher/Learner” style, featuring two people on camera to recreate some of the interactivity and physiological benefits of classroom training, including dialogue, humor, and practical use case examples. This Uniquely Engaging™ video-based format is more enjoyable and more effective than traditional eLearning formats.
Andy Offutt Irwin is one of the most sought-after performing storytellers in the United States. Andy is a perennial favorite of the Teller-in-Residence Program at the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He has been a Featured Teller at the National Storytelling Festival nine times (as of 2017). Andy’s numerous awards include Storytelling World awards in 2015, the 2013 National Storytelling Network’s ORACLE Circle of Excellence Award, and the 2001 Sammy Clark Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service from Emory University. Kelly Vandever is a leadership and communications expert. She helps leaders and organizations thrive in today’s attention-deficit, entertain-me-now, wait-while-I-post-that-on-Facebook, world. Kelly is also a past President of the National Speakers Association, Georgia Chapter.
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