TESTIMONIALS

"Today I got a lot out of this setup I think it confirmed some things that I knew, but it also provided me clarity on a few others. My assumption was that you couldn't tell a great story in 90 to 180 seconds it will take longer, but learning that it is possible to do so, is a big take out from my point of view. The messages that you landed that assertions do not sell, a story lands the message and that you can have hard facts told in an interesting manner which generate an emotion and I think that to me is the ‘Aha’ moment."

Nitin Paranjpe

Chief People & Transformation Officer, Unilever

“A lot of my communication perhaps stopped at fact and context, but I think laddering that up and leading that up to emotion which I think everybody has, I think is a bit of a revelation. I think these workshops are evenings well spent!”

Sangita Pendurkar

Chief Executive Officer, Pantaloons at Aditya Birla Group

“We always focus on storytelling but I think those other facets which combines this program for leaders are, story listening, and story triggering. As a leader you realize how powerful it is to really listen to other’s stories and then trigger your thoughts. I think that those are the two powerful techniques are very very powerful.”

Manoj Saxena

Managing Director Bayer Zydus

"The Story-Powered Sales program transformed the way I looked at story telling from a business context, highlighting how authentic stories articulated with context and emotion can help you connect with teams better, and drive signiﬁcantly higher engagement and buy-in. The approach used by IC for the program, an impactful mix of conversational coaching sessions, breakout group activities and oﬄine assignments and reviews, facilitated signiﬁcant learning and ‘re-wiring’ within just four 2-hour sessions spread over 2 weeks! IC’s commitment to review personal stories and provide detailed feedback was commendable. I look forward to leveraging the learning to drive higher engagement and success with my team here at Oracle."

Promod Radhakrishnan

Group VP and Head Prime Sourcing Delivery, Oracle

"Selling is tough and selling of complex services even tougher! IC’s Story Powered sales program helps one understand the futility of the technical jargon used for sales. And helps you with an alternate, more powerful and diﬀerentiated method to sell. More importantly, IC breaks down the mystery and intricacy of great storytelling into systematic and logical steps and prepares you for all key occasions – from establishing connections to change management to inﬂuencing to closing the sale etc. Very, very useful and also super engaging!"

Anupriya Acharya

Chief Executive Oﬃcer, Publicis Groupe, South Asia

"Thank you so much for your support in preparing the participants of Mercurix ﬁnals. The event got over this morning and I was glad to see the visible shift in the style of storytelling. IC’s grooming and inputs from the workshop has deﬁnitely helped the participants in making this transformation. Going forward I am conﬁdent the culture of business storytelling will cement itself in the organisation. Thank you for your support."

Mahendra Kumar K.

GM, Employee Relations, BPCL

"I am known as a storyteller in my organisation. However, all my storytelling so far has been to internal audiences. What I have taken back from this program is the concept that I can even tell stories to my customer. I realised that a formal and polished presentation may not always be the best mode."

Prasad Kotikela

Head - Africa, Tech Mahindra

"We are in the business of storytelling and trying to sell stories. However, I don't think most of us tell stories when we try and sell our products. I genuinely feel that our teams should be experts in storytelling. This program was an eye opener on how we can achieve that. What I liked most about this entire program was the simplicity with which IC delivered it. Not like other workshops where you hear a lot but learn little."

Nitin Bawankule

President Ad Sales, Disney StarTV

"It's been a wonderful program. We all prepare a lot before a big presentation, looking to ﬁnd ways to cram in a lot of information into it. What I learnt was that simple stories can be used to illustrate the point far more eﬀectively than cramming a lot of information. I would highly recommend this program to anyone operating in a multi-buyer / multi-seller situation."

Vikash Gaur

EVP & Head - Cloud, Data, Digital, Larsen & Toubro Infotech

"I never felt that a virtual programme could be so immersive and interesting. But I was pleasantly surprised. And to be honest, when I came in I was really sceptical. Storytelling has become such a buzzword in the leadership vocabulary in the last two - three years, we had so many sessions within the company. But, this was so diﬀerent and so powerful. I now have the structure to go and practice in the days to come."

Shriharsha Imprapur

Global Head of Media, Entertainment & Education, Mindtree

"In every course we attend, we end up learning one or two things. I think in this course there are many more points and concepts which will stay stuck in my mind for life. Concepts that are powerful but easy to use.”

Chaitanya Rajebahadur

Head Europe, Zensar Technologies

"The Business Storytelling Program that Storyworks conducts, isn’t just for people doing business! Let’s be honest, we are all building Connections, trying to provide Clarity, gain Inﬂuence.. we need to do it all! This program is very well structured, the content is spot on and IC makes it completely relevant no matter what you do in the organization. Oh and doing it completely virtual, it was fantastic! There was theory masked in stories, there was practice built into breakouts, there was lots of fun on chat (some contributed in large measure by our Employee Experience team!) and learning all around. I’d highly recommend this program with only one disclaimer ‘ be prepared to work hard, command over the language isn’t enough, you can only get good with practice"

Amrita Madiah

Director Talent Development, Adobe India

"This is a very well-conceived and organized training program run by IC. The eﬀectiveness of storytelling, the methods and tools will surely help my team and me bring out our propositions, viewpoints and compelling cases to our customers and prospects much better. A refreshing learning experience, highly recommended."

Ram Ramachandran

SVP & Head, Middle East & Africa, Tech Mahindra

"What I liked most was the relevance of the program to our current role and the expectations. The 3 key learnings for me would be: 1) Preparing succinct presentations - clear the clutter 2) Reeling people in with stories rather than monotonous scripts 3) Speech are to be said and not be read - prepare accordingly."

Siddhant Jain

USV

"Dear Indranil, I on behalf of the People Matters & Indeed team would like to extend a big thank you for joining us as the keynote speaker for the open program workshop. What a refreshing and wonderful keynote from your side! Appreciate you giving our audience your time. It was amazing to see the energy and enthusiasm you brought to the session. Your practical thoughts and personal experiences engaged our audience and it became a highly informative & inspiring session. What was fantastic was to see the audience sharing their gratitude with some heartfelt comments and ensuring that they had lots to take back and reflect. Thank You again for helping in making this campaign a success. "

Aakanksha Singh

Senior Manager- Brand Reachout – People Matters

"Wow. That was the first thing that registered in my brain, when IC got going. Wow. This is so apt! He speaks from experience and knowledge! It was not only interesting and real, but easily actionable. My key task for my team and me is to deliver authentic, convincing and inspiring communication to our customers. Using the approach IC shared is very compelling. In fact, post the keynote, the team approached IC to get a hands-on understanding of how the approach translates to dramatically improving our communication. And he obliged."

Gowthami Kanumuru

Marketing Head, Darwinbox

"Your presentation & interaction with our Partners can best be described as soul-stirring! Your message that storytelling is a very powerful medium of propagation & building of cultures, conveying messages and intrinsically linked to how we run our business and how we can get better at it - came across very well. It set a lot of us thinking about how we communicate every day and what kind of message we are giving out. Thank you ever so much from all of us!"

Amar Sinhji

Executive Director - Human Resources and Member - Executive Committee, Khaitan & Co.

"Indranil was a huge hit! He was thought provoking and entertaining. The audience was abuzz both during the talk and throughout the program. The session was gripping and his way of storytelling was very engrossing. His views about how and why stories are very compelling was an eye opener for most of my colleagues . Keep it Up!"

Debasis Chatterjee

Country Head at SBI Life Insurance Co. Ltd.

"Hi Good morning. I had to make a speech on market trends to my R&D team for 20 mins and had just a few minutes to prepare my structure for the discourse. The training helped me tremendously especially the power of three and I used the Zoom in approach. E.g. started with Global Auto Trends, then Domestic Auto trends and then focussed on Local Commercial Auto Trends. In each I used the triangle approach further to emphasis critical trends. Happy to share that it went absolutely flawless and was very impactful. Thanks once again."

Satish Karandikar

Head - Product Planning Commercial Vehicles, Mahindra & Mahindra

"It is my pleasure to acknowledge IC for presenting his Stories At Work keynote to the finance community at Flipkart Group. This was a virtual session we were doing in the middle of the pandemic and it was great to see enthusiastic participation from finance teams across the Group Company including Flipkart, Myntra, Flipkart Wholesale, representing functions as diverse as business finance, controllers, taxation, treasury, commercial, audit and M&A. Indranil’s candid style and ability to easily build rapport with us won over the packed house the moment he began speaking. Any apprehensions anybody in the audience may have had about the relevance of storytelling in finance were dispelled very quickly. His years of rich experience, his depth of understanding of this relevant topic, and his ability to present such an important subject in such a delightful way, remarkably produced one of the most memorable sessions we had at the Flipkart group thus far. If you get a chance to bring him into your organisation or conference, do it."

Abhishek Gupta,

CFO, Myntra

"IC was one of the highlights of our February 2020 India Annual Meet, with a tour de force keynote address that accomplished the seemingly impossible: providing a practical, interactive, how-to primer on business storytelling to an audience of over 200 ++ attendees, ranging from the sales consultant, managers, customer success to account directors, to the India Leadership Team. He blended humor, science, and excellent examples, and I don’t know if anyone else could have pulled this off on a subject relatively new to the audience. In fact, at the end of the keynote, the leadership team was so convinced with his approach and ability that we brought him in to run several storytelling skill-building programs for the enterprise account team."

Sunil Jose

Senior Vice President and Country Leader, Salesforce

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