Become familiar with Lori’s speaking style and business storytelling approach through these speaking clips, interviews, and audio podcasts. Contact Lori to book her for an engagement.
President’s Invited Session: Waking Up the General Public to the Importance of Laboratory Tests. Using Effective Story Telling
Get Noticed and Be Heard: Opening Keynote Story
Get Noticed and Be Heard: Reducing Turnover Example
Interview with Lori Silverman on Story is Alive, Association Forum of Chicagoland
The Power of Story: Interview with Alan Todd, Chairman of CorpU
Using Stories to Improve Strategy
Lori talks with her host, Sally Fox, PhD, of Engaging Presence in this 53 minute episode of Vital Presence Radio Show about how wise organizations can make their strategic planning, environmental scanning, and futuring more effective through the skillful use of business storytelling. In this podcast you’ll learn:
- Why Lori doesn’t introduce herself as a business storyteller.
- The difference between sense-making and meaning-making and how story serves the latter.
- How to use story prompts and story triggers to elicit great stories from others.
- How to use story in future-planning, including visioning and scenario planning.
- Why you should never start a story by saying “Let me tell you a story.”
Vital Presence Radio Show on iTunes (Nov. 1, 2015 episode)
Storytelling: Just a Technique? Or a Core Competency?
Everyone is talking about storytelling. Is it just a technique that will catch on with a few people but pass through like so many other business approaches? Or, is it a core competency that we are only scratching the surface of in business? If so, how do we utilize story in a way that makes it stick in organizations and in business overall? In this one-hour episode of Story Powered® on The VoiceAmerica™ Talk Radio Network, Lori and her host, Lianne Picot discuss these questions and more.
The VoiceAmerica™ Talk Radio Network
Story Powered® on iTunes (Oct. 27, 2015 episode)
How Memorable Are You?
Networking events. Conferences. Professional meetings. If you want to encourage conversation, an elevator speech about yourself won’t cut it. In this podcast, Lori shares a story from a coaching client about what he says when he’s asked, “What do you do?” Paul and Lori also discuss the types of stories to have in your hip pocket so you’re prepared to answer this question and how to find them. Click here to see a transcript of the story..
How to Use Stories Throughout the Change Process: Interview with The Change Source
Lori talks with Emma Murphy of The Change Source, on how to use stories from the inception of a change through its implementation. The content in this podcast gives examples that are not in Chapter 16 of Business Storytelling for Dummies.
Making the Case for Change Through Stories
Rick Maurer helps people lead change without migraines™. In this podcast, he interviews Lori about how she used stories to make a case for change and keep the message alive throughout the life of a big project that she conducted with the world’s largest women’s service organization. You can learn more about Rick’s work at Beyond Resistance and Tools for Change.
OnAir with InBusiness
Lori spent an hour with Joan Gillman and Jody Glynn Patrick discussing her book, Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over.