Structure & Storytelling
Structuring speeches and messages, and turning your story into one people remember.
Structure & Storytelling
The Missing Sentence That Makes Your Story Easier to Follow
A powerful scene can still leave listeners lost. Learn to write the short bridges that connect your story’s events, turning point and message.
21 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Your Favourite Story Could Be Weakening Your Speech
A powerful anecdote can still be wrong for your presentation. Learn how to choose stories that develop your message rather than compete with it.
19 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Hold Your Audience’s Attention by Changing the Speed of Your Story
A compelling story does not give every moment equal space. Learn when to move quickly, when to slow down, and how that contrast makes your message clearer.
16 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Make Your Speech More Compelling by Showing Why You Almost Said No
A New York Times opinion video featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt speaking about AI offers a storytelling lesson: the hesitation before action can give a speech depth.
14 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Give Your Speech a Question People Need Answered
A New York Times opinion piece pairs AI questions with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s answers—a useful starting point for building a speech around a question that matters.
12 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Make Your Story Stay With People Through One Meaningful Object
A notebook, a key or a folded page can give listeners something concrete to follow—if its role changes as your story unfolds.
9 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Your Life Has a Timeline. Give Your Signature Story a Plot.
Turn six defining moments into a signature story by showing how one experience changed the meaning of the next—not simply what happened when.
7 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
How to Build a Personal Story That Earns Its Powerful Ending
A powerful ending needs more than a declaration of change. Build the evidence into your story so listeners can understand how you became different.
5 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Make Your Story Matter to People Who Don’t Already Believe You
An audience’s agreement is not a finished story. Gerard Grogans’s perspective: show the choice and change that make your experience meaningful beyond a receptive room.
2 October 2026
Structure & Storytelling
How to Make Your Story More Powerful Without Saying Another Word
Pace, pauses and honest inner thought can help listeners experience a story, rather than simply hear what happened.
30 September 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Make Your Story More Powerful: Let the Audience Discover the Turning Point
A meaningful story can lose its power when the lesson comes too soon. Give listeners a question to follow, then reveal the change through action.
30 September 2026
Structure & Storytelling
Make Your Audience See Your Story, Not Just Hear It
Vivid speaking begins with a few truthful details that help listeners picture a moment, understand its meaning and recognise the possibility of change.
30 September 2026