In a world where so many get their start in business storytelling through branding and marketing, Cynthia Kurtz followed a different route in: through science and through work at IBM research. She has pioneered a field she calls Participative Narrative and written an amazingly useful guide to participatory story work, called Working with Stories in Your Community or Organization.

Nick Owen is passionate about leadership and storytelling.He is author of three best-selling books on story and metaphor and deeply engaged in promoting the concept of ‘the Third Act’: how we can more pro-actively engage with ourselves and our communities in the last third of our lives.

John Tarnoff is a reinvention career coach, speaker and author who helps his fellow baby boomers transition to meaningful and sustainable careers beyond traditional retirement.

Doug Lipman, master storytelling coach, shares insights and ideas about bringing your best story forward at work and in life.

Ashton Applewhite, author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism shares her perspective on creative a positive path to elderhood.

Dr. Bill Thomas is changing the story about moving from adulthood into elderhood. He's an author, entrepreneur, musician, teacher, farmer and physician whose wide-ranging work explores the terrain of human aging.

Kathy Klost-Guest is a marketing and communications consultant, a storyteller, an improviser, and an author who just published: Stop Boring Me! How to Create Kick-ass Content, Products and Ideas through the Power of improv.  Through her firm Keeping It Human she helps companies create jargon-free convincing, kick-ass communications

Expert organizational storyteller Karen Dietz, Ph.D. reflects on what is new in the field of business storytelling, working with big data and transformational storytelling.

 Marketing expert and improviser Kathy Klotz-Guest talks about story

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