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Case Study: Juniper Square

Case Study: Juniper Square

CASE STUDY

Juniper Square was excited to host it’s first ever in-person Sales Kick Off event. Given what they knew about the power of stories, the leadership determined that the SKO would be designed around storytelling with the theme Ignite: Stories Brought to Life. Wolf and Heron drew from the foundational Influential Storytelling program and created a series of storytelling training experiences for team members at all levels.

Download our case study to explore more about our partnership with Juniper Square to deliver an impactful SKO 2023.

ResourcesStephanie JuddJuly 18, 2023storytellingComment

Transforming Your Presentation into an Interactive Workshop Part 2: Making Your Workshop Effective

Transforming Your Presentation into an Interactive Workshop Part 2: Making Your Workshop Effective

The best workshops put the learning into the hands of the participants at every stage of the learning process, but sometimes the timeline—both for development of the workshop or the runtime of the experience itself—can result in more of a hybrid experience that contains both presentation-style and interactive moments. When we work with clients transforming their presentations into workshops, this is how we typically break it down.

ArticleKara DavidsonJuly 10, 2023storytelling, presentation, coachingComment

Craft Powerful Micro-Stories for Your Presentation

Craft Powerful Micro-Stories for Your Presentation

TOOL

To help our clients embed stories into their presentations, we typically encourage them to take an intentional look at their story ideas through the lens of the building blocks of the story. If you’d like to do the same, use this tool to get started.

ResourcesStephanie JuddJune 29, 2023meeting design and facilitation, meeting design, toolComment

Transforming Your Presentation into an Interactive Workshop Part 1: Know When a Workshop is the Right Call

Transforming Your Presentation into an Interactive Workshop Part 1: Know When a Workshop is the Right Call

We help leaders engage and inspire others. A lot of the time, that ends up meaning that we help leaders be better storytellers and presenters, but once in a while, we have a client that’s truly interested in taking engagement to the next level, and they’re looking for help transforming what was going to be be a presentation into an interactive, engaging, and compelling workshop.

ArticleKara DavidsonJune 12, 2023storytelling, conference, presentation, coachingComment

The Making of a Conference Theme

The Making of a Conference Theme

As Story and Presentation Coaches, we partner with organizations planning conferences. Conferences have always been a way for people to gather outside of their day-to-day routine, share insights, learn, and grow. In a time when fewer of us are gathering in person, it’s even more important than ever to ensure those conferences are thoughtful and productive experiences for attendees.

ArticleKara DavidsonMay 25, 2023storytelling, conference, presentation, coachingComment

Presentations that Pop: How to “Invite Curiosity” with Your Presentation

Presentations that Pop: How to “Invite Curiosity” with Your Presentation

When we teach influential storytelling, we share four ways to level up the influence power of your story. One of these is what we call Invite Curiosity. The concept behind this strategy is that by activating an intellectual or cerebral experience for the audience—getting them to think for themselves—helps them to be engaged in your story AND causes them to have a mental stake in its outcome.

ArticleKara DavidsonMay 25, 2023Presentation, Curiousity, Storytelling, storytelling for businessComment

Stephanie Judd on Business Radio X Podcast

Stephanie Judd on Business Radio X Podcast

PODCAST

Stephanie sat down with Business Radio X to talk about critical skills that leaders should develop in a hybrid work environment, how managers support and motivate employees during layoffs, sustainable leadership practices, and how important it is for organizations to invest time, money, and resources into professional development.

PodcastStephanie JuddMay 4, 2023storytelling, in the mediaComment

Public Speaking Tips for Non Native English Speakers

Public Speaking Tips for Non Native English Speakers

At a recent coaching session, Kara was asked, “Do you have any tips for non-native English speakers at an English speaking company? I’m worried about how I come across.” There are so many considerations when it comes to working, presenting and speaking in front of audiences that are linguistically or culturally different from you.

ArticleKara DavidsonApril 10, 2023presentation, presentations, storytelling, presentation designComment

Marked Up Agenda Resource

Marked Up Agenda Resource

REFERENCE

In our work helping clients design their strategy retreats, we've come across plenty of draft agendas. Some are better than others. Download this file for two draft agendas that we've marked up with comments on their strengths and opportunities.

ResourcesStephanie JuddApril 4, 2023meeting design and facilitation, meeting design, toolComment

Ramp Up the Asks: How to Warm Up Attendees for High Quality Engagement

Ramp Up the Asks: How to Warm Up Attendees for High Quality Engagement

REFERENCE

Truly engaging your audience takes a lot more effort and planning and, as a result, is often neglected. Ramp up the “asks” for your audience over the course of the meeting. Check out this one-page reference on how to Ramp Up The Asks.

ResourcesStephanie JuddApril 4, 2023meeting design and facilitation, meeting design, toolComment

Materials for Meeting Success

Materials for Meeting Success

REFERENCE

Turn off the slide deck and make your materials physical instead. Check out this one-page reference of Materials for Meeting Success.

ResourcesStephanie JuddApril 4, 2023meeting design and facilitation, meeting design, toolComment

Ground Rules for Success

Ground Rules for Success

REFERENCE

The best medicine is always and forever will be prevention, and that is something you can do pretty effectively by establishing thoughtful ground rules at the outset of the meeting. Check out this one-page reference with some high-quality ground rules you may consider adapting and/or adopting for yourself.

ResourcesStephanie JuddApril 4, 2023meeting design and facilitation, meeting design, toolComment

Inspiring Conversations with Stephanie Judd of Wolf & Heron

Inspiring Conversations with Stephanie Judd of Wolf & Heron

In this article, Stephanie Judd is featured in a VoyageATL interview and shared her journey from college to building Wolf & Heron, as well as the challenges she faced day-to-day.

Media MentionsStephanie JuddMarch 31, 2023VoyageATLComment

Your Biggest Leadership Hurdle: 4 Tips for Navigating Impostor Syndrome

Your Biggest Leadership Hurdle: 4 Tips for Navigating Impostor Syndrome

At Wolf & Heron, we do a lot of one-on-one work with leaders through our coaching practice. Most of the time, these leaders, although well established in their careers, still believe they have more to accomplish professionally; they haven’t reached their end-goal, and their ambition remains strong. We’ve noticed that one of the key hurdles of leaders stepping into their own leadership is their personal belief that they’re not yet ready.

Media MentionsKara DavidsonMarch 22, 2023Human Capital InnovationsComment

Best Practices for Leading in a Hybrid Work Environment

Best Practices for Leading in a Hybrid Work Environment

We recently hosted a roundtable discussion on Building Authentic Sales Relationships in a Hybrid Virtual/In-Person Tech Industry. There are several unique challenges leaders are facing in supporting their people right now due to the hybrid nature of work and offer these best practices for consideration.

Media MentionsKara DavidsonMarch 22, 2023Human Capital InnovationsComment

Make People Feel Seen, Heard, and Understood - Part 2: Coaching Tips for Leaders

Make People Feel Seen, Heard, and Understood - Part 2: Coaching Tips for Leaders

Making people feel seen, heard, and understood is an important leadership skill. Here we offer tips from our executive coaching training that we think are particularly powerful ways to do just that: restate what you hear, ask powerful, future-oriented questions, trust your conversation partner has it in them to find the answers, and be mindful of your purpose.

ArticleKara DavidsonMarch 20, 2023presentation, presentations, storytelling, presentation designComment

Stephanie's Podcast Guest Page

Stephanie's Podcast Guest Page

REFERENCE

Download a pdf with prompts and questions designed to help you inspire you to have an intentional and productive manager/employee check-in.

ResourcesStephanie JuddMarch 6, 2023influential storytelling, Leadership, entrepreneurshipComment

Make People Feel Seen, Heard and Understood - Part 1: Common Mistakes

Make People Feel Seen, Heard and Understood - Part 1: Common Mistakes

Making people feel seen, heard, and understood is one of the most fundamental and important skills of a coach. In our work over the past decade, we’ve come to believe that it’s also one of the most important, yet underdeveloped, skills of a leader.

ArticleKara DavidsonFebruary 27, 2023coaching, leadership, manager, engagement, influenceComment

Cross-Cultural Storytelling: How To Be Authentic, Engaging And Resonant With Your Audience

Cross-Cultural Storytelling: How To Be Authentic, Engaging And Resonant With Your Audience

At the end of a talk or presentation, I usually get questions about the line between authenticity and dramatization. Stories, in particular, lend themselves to being dramatized—in some ways, dramatization makes the story more interesting and engaging—but that very same dramatization has the potential to feel affected or “put on” by the storyteller.

In this article, Stephanie Judd is featured as a Forbes Council Member who shares how to be authentic, engaging and resonant with your audience.

Media MentionsStephanie JuddFebruary 24, 2023ForbesComment

14 Ways Leaders Can Build A Companywide Peer Coaching Culture

14 Ways Leaders Can Build A Companywide Peer Coaching Culture

The members of Forbes Coaches Council have plenty of experience working with executives and managers to create coaching cultures within businesses.

In this article, Stephanie Judd is featured as one of 14 coaches who share ways for leaders to implement a successful peer coaching system across an organization.

Media MentionsStephanie JuddFebruary 24, 2023ForbesComment