An Engaging Experience

Our workshop is designed as an interactive, hands-on, and conversational learning experience delivered in person or online. The workshop is offered in two formats. The half-day version introduces key storytelling frameworks that participants practice individually and in groups through a business case study. The full-day version includes deeper work through hands-on activities, presentation practice, and peer feedback. Both formats offer unique and tangible takeaways that you can apply in your presentations immediately.

    • Introduction - The intersection of numbers and narratives.

    • Objectivity - Be grounded in facts and reality.

    • Clarity - Craft a clear narrative and tell a story.

    • Simplicity - Focus on making it simple and relatable.

    • 9 steps to mastery - From raw data to a captivating story.

    • Inspiration for design - Discover the designer in you.

    • Empathy - Understand and feel your audience.

    • Minimalism - Embrace the idea of ‘less is more’.

    • Elegance - Showcase with sophisticated style and taste.

    • Tips and tricks - Elevate your next presentation today!

    • Ask critical questions - Be the most curious person around.

    • Stay grounded in data - Elude the ladder of inference.

    • Make the hard calls - Exhibit decisive leadership.

    • Show the way - Lead by example.

    • Create a culture - Demand storytelling excellence.

Our Approach to Storytelling

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Kedar Gajanan Kale

has created a portfolio career as a global executive coach, people strategy advisor, and executive MBA professor.

Kedar built his corporate leadership career at Apple, creating people strategy and crafting executive communications for the CEO and the Board. His work spanned diverse areas, including business operations, leadership development, inclusion & diversity, employee experience, and team culture.

Kedar specializes in coaching leaders to create compelling narratives and communicate authentic stories at the intersection of business and humanity. With this workshop, he’s bringing his experience and wisdom to corporate clients and executive MBA programs around the globe.

Kedar holds an MBA from INSEAD, a master of science from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Insights from Participants

  • Numbers without a narrative are just a data dump. A narrative without numbers is an abstract story. Together, numbers and narrative create storytelling with data. This is powerful.

  • Be grounded, authentic, and balanced. This was a great reminder of how effective leaders think beyond immediate outcomes, adopt an owner’s mindset, and prioritize the company's long-term well-being.

  • The nine steps and the Simplicity/Objectivity/Clarity were good frameworks for putting together presentations—the group project required team skills and navigating dynamics to accomplish a shared task.

  • Numbers don’t change, but the narrative can. Dive deep and know the underlying numbers to own the story.

  • Kedar Kale was an excellent speaker and facilitator - an incredibly emotionally intelligent leader.

  • Excellent, up-to-date, pertinent content, applied meaningfully, with valuable takeaways for us to use on an ongoing basis.

  • Kedar knocked it out of the park. I love how Kedar combined technology to engage the audience. I want to bring this method back to my place of work.

  • The session's simplicity had a significant impact. I’ll use these ideas to craft a compelling story.

  • Kedar was AMAZING! I loved the method. It was simple, and the outcomes and meaning were profound. The technology was also wonderfully executed.