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Storyliving
The Storyliving Podcast provides a platform to learn from inspiring leaders and their stories. We collaborate with a diverse group of top tech leaders to dissect their personal journeys and share insights from times of success and adversity to provide inspiring guidance for viewers. Our founder, Jack Griffin, explores trending leadership and development topics to give listeners unique tips for success within the tech industry. Happy listening!
Current Episodes
Tim Tully
Tim Tully, Chief Technology Officer at Splunk, shares valuable wisdom on how to attract and retain top talent in the latest episode of Storyliving!
We hope you enjoy learning from his experience at Splunk and Yahoo plus a special storying about joining Yahoo’s Founder, David Filo, in New Orleans to engineer disaster relief for Hurricane Katrina.
Cyra Richardson
Cyra Richardson, Chief Product Officer at Wind River, shares valuable wisdom on how to embody radical care in the latest episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from her experience at Wind River, Microsoft, and Amazon and the challenges she faced and conquered along the way.
Fernando Delgado
Fernando Delgado, Sr. Product Manager at Google, shares valuable wisdom on how to persevere through rejection in the latest episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from his experience at Microsoft, Yahoo, and startups where he was on the brink of working for Uber before accepting a product lead role at Google.
Tenni Theurer
Tenni Theurer, VP of Product at Verizon Media, shares inspiring and informative insights in this week’s episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from her experience at IBM, Visa, and Yahoo, including a special story about working on a stealth project in Austria where she stood for her values and came out stronger with encouraging career lessons.
Hongmei Huang
Hongmei Huang, VP of Informatics at Genentech, shares inspiring and informative insights in this week’s episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from her experience at Genentech, Assembly Biosciences and, Johnson & Johnson, including fascinating talking points on and around data management tied to patient care and drug development.
Tim Saeger
Tim Saeger, Chief R&D Officer of iRobot, shares insight on how to optimize for personal growth in this episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from his experience working in the defense industry and Bose, two career paths that added even more value to his story on how to excel in high-pressure cultures and plan for retirement from tech!
Jeromy Carriere
Jeromy Carriere, Engineering Director at Facebook, shares insight on how to enable high-performing teams on this episode of Storyliving!
We hope you enjoy learning from his vast experience at Google, Fidelity, and Microsoft, including an inspiring story about selling a successful startup to AOL during the dot-com era and lessons from Doug Hubbard’s measurement research.
P.P.S Narayan
How do we approach personal mastery to build organizational influence? P.P.S. Narayan, senior engineering leader at Apple, shares intriguing insights for leading high-performance tech teams in this week’s episode of Storyliving. We hope you enjoy learning from his unique experience at Bell Labs and Yahoo, including a special story of technical innovation where he helped lead the first international live stream of an NFL game.
Blog Articles
Focus on These Four Tips To Improve Your Presentation Skills
You finally did it. You and your team worked for the entire quarter to complete a project and now, it is finally complete. You are proud of all of the planning and strategy that went into completing this project and are excited that it has finally come to fruition. As...
Five Tips To Improve Your Public Speaking Skills
It’s human nature to be nervous when giving a speech or a presentation. Whether your boss asked you to present this quarter’s report to the board of directors or you’re giving a keynote speech at your company’s biggest conference, everyone gets nervous when...
Improve Your Networking Skills In These Four Steps
Networking is one of the most powerful tools you can use to help propel your professional career. Establishing connections is a great opportunity to learn from mentors, showcase your talents, and if you do things right, maybe even land a new job. All that being said,...
How Listening Can Propel Your Career
How many times a day do you find yourself in a conversation with someone and catch yourself more focused on how you’re going to respond, rather than actually listening and digesting what the other person is saying? This is something that we all do, even if we don’t...
How To Set Professional Development Goals
From the time we first enter school, we are taught that one of the most important things we can do to set ourselves up for success is to give ourselves different goals to hit. In high school this may look like getting two “As” and three “Bs” in our classes, or making...
Storytelling Master Course
Why your lack of communication skills is holding you back…
Those filler words, nervous ticks and boring slides continue to prevent your next promotion.
The pain of fleeting confidence and uninspiring presentations is detrimental to your career.
Watch this short story from our founder, Jack Griffin, who’s helped thousands (literally) of global leaders accelerate their careers by learning to leverage Harvard Business insights and conquer public speaking fears!
Success Stories…
Jack helped me with intensive coaching before a large audience at an important conference. As expected, it went very well. Speaking at this conference boosted my career to another level. I will be using Jack again and you should too.
George Talbot
Senior Engineer @ Google
Lauren Borelli
Partner @ Canary Marketing
Jim Bosiljevac
Head of Creative @ Verizon Media
Avoid Career Embarrassment, Learn to Present Effectively
Take your communication skills to the next level before it’s too late!
You can’t afford another missed opportunity to prove your competence. Check out the course syllabus below and enroll in our Storytelling Master Course to avoid public speaking pain and learn how to master presentations.
Invest in your development risk-free with our 100% money-back guarantee and know that your investment helps others because we donate 12% of purchase proceeds to nonprofit causes.
Not ready for the full course?
Check out our free Presentations Skills Master Guide…
The anxiety of preparing for public speaking engagements can be stressful.
Constantly worrying…how do I stop using “uhs, ums, likes”? What’s the best number of slides to build? How do I persuade my decision makers?
Start improving public speaking confidence, presentation delivery skills and content development competence right now!
Presentation Skills
Master Guide
Four insightful steps to improve storytelling confidence and effectiveness
Instructor Bio
Jack is a certified coach and the founding principal of Light Up Ventures, a professional development firm based in Northern California.
He and his team have unique experience working with industry leaders including Marissa Mayer, as well as reputable training relationships with Google, Facebook and Verizon, along with startups, agencies and nonprofits.
He and LUV believe it’s better to give than receive, which is why they donate 14% of their revenue to nonprofits.
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