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Connection. Motivation. Engagement. Innovation.

All things you want in your organization — and all things that are much more likely to end up scribbled on a crumpled poster behind a filing cabinet than actually implemented in the day-to-day of the business.

Unless… you have a speaker who knows how to get your employees excited about connecting to each other and the business, thrilled that they finally get a chance to innovate, and absolutely bubbling over with engagement.

I’m Marsha Shandur, and I help organizations and businesses get their clients and their employees excited about what they do.

I give engaging, funny and exceptionally informative training to employees, management and executives on the one thing that gets people fired up about their work more than anything else — which happens to be the thing I’m best at:

Storytelling.

As humans, we connect to each other through stories on the most fundamental, primal levels. We can’t help it! Our brains are wired to mirror each other through stories, to empathize through anecdotes, and to feel really, really good when we’re able to interact in such a way that we feel heard. When you know how to make storytelling a part of your business culture, that’s when things can really take off.

Suddenly, people are talking to each other and (much more importantly) actually caring what everybody else has to say. Meetings run more smoothly because everyone’s getting on with each other, gridlocks tend to resolve themselves, and communication between management and staff goes from a boring lecture to a productive conversation.

All this translates into:

• Greater levels of employee engagement, whether the company’s soaring or struggling
• Higher motivation that lasts much longer than the effects of a three day motivational seminar
• Increased employee retention — happy people who feel connected to each other are much more likely to stay at their jobs
• Developing a culture of innovation that can propel your business to new levels of success.

It’s not your typical training event.

All of my work with corporates — from 20 minute speeches to 3 day events — are incredibly informative and practical. You practice everything you learn while I’m right there with you because (1) it’s one of the best ways to learn anything and (2) it beats the pants off of sitting around a conference table watching someone click through slides for a day.

(Full disclosure: I do have slides. But they have clips of Black Panther on them, not badly formatted bullet points.)

So how does this actually play out?

It depends on what your business needs. If you’re having a particular issue — say around communication between management and staff — I can teach your managers how to use stories to connect right across the hierarchy. If you could do with some more innovation, I can help you create that all-too-elusive culture of vulnerability that innovation requires using storytelling as a low-stakes way to open up.

These things always happen though:

• Participants have a clearer understanding of how to communicate in a(n ethically) persuasive way
• People walk away feeling genuinely excited about working in your business.
• Those awkward tangles of bad feeling and miscommunication get washed away in a flood of oxytocin.
• Everyone learns actionable strategies they’ll actually use to keep things ticking along as a team, even when things are stressful.
• People create the kind of bonds over the course of the workshop that often take years and endless “team building exercises” to form otherwise.
• And your organisation gets the kind of forward momentum that can only happen when everyone’s excited about pulling in the same direction.

The bottom line: stories can be absolutely transformational for your bottom line.

And I’d love to prove it to you. To learn more about how you can book me to up the bonding in your business, click here or email me at hello@yesyesmarsha.com.

Clients include:

“Marsha put together the most incredible online storytelling workshops for my team — we even had to get her back to do additional workshops for other teams because everyone raved about the session so much. All the staff gave the workshops 5 stars in our post-workshop feedback and even started sharing how they were putting their learnings into action. I promise you won’t be disappointed if you hire Marsha!”
— Natasha Sawires, Shopify

“In honesty, I’m skeptical of a lot of corporate training, having had some bad experiences in the past — but I needn’t have worried! Marsha’s workshop for our entire executive team was incredibly useful. I was impressed by how targeted the content was. I also appreciated how she blended fun and engaging content with extremely practical exercises, so that the work of applying what we were learning began during the training itself. Since the workshop, I’ve observed the team putting into practice the skills and insights they learned. Not only has the approach we use towards our communications become more streamlined and targeted, I’ve also seen first-hand that we’ve increased our ability to be more persuasive in our presentations. If you want to boost your team or organization’s skills when it comes to effective, engaging and persuasive communication, you need Marsha!”

— Haywood Marsh, CEO, Cardata

“I have hired Marsha for advanced comms training a number of times over several years, including in my roles as a Director of Research Science at Meta and a Professor at the University of Toronto. Working with both high profile and more junior roles, Marsha runs a fabulous program. As a result of her work, I have seen my former students land dream jobs, and watched the Managers and Research Scientists she has coached [at Meta] deliver the strongest presentations I’ve ever seen them do. I recommend you hire Marsha.”
— Daniel Wigdor, Meta & University of Toronto

Want to find out how to create a culture where staff communicate effectively, are excited to come to work, will go the extra mile and will stay loyal out of choice? Let’s talk. To book in a call, click below or email me at hello@yesyesmarsha.com.