Leadership Story Talks Podcast

Listen in on real-world stories about leveraging listening and storytelling to become a better leader and management professional.

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JEROME DEROY

Chief Executive Officer | Lead Trainer: Sales and Training

Hybrid workplace communication with julienne ryan

JULIENNE B. RYAN

Training Consultant / HR Specialist

Leadership Story Talks is a podcast hosted by Jerome Deroy, CEO of Narativ, and Julienne Ryan, business author, communication and HR specialist, and frequent Narativ training contributor.

In each episode, Jerome and Jules discuss the practices that engage, motivate, develop, retain, and attract people to businesses, whether these are your customers or your employees. Their principles and tools are based on real world stories that leverage listening and storytelling to become a better leader and management professional.

LEADERSHIP STORY TALKS

with Jerome Deroy and Julienne Ryan

Learning to Keep Your Mouth Shut with Dan Lyons

What do Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Tim Cook, Barack Obama, Richard Branson, and Larry King have in common? They are great listeners and know when to…

Dealing with Grief at Work

Sooner or later, we all go through it: grief and loss. How do we deal with grief and loss, in the workplace and beyond? How…

Well-Being In The Workplace

How are you spending your time? Are you intentional about it and do you take your wellness into account, or do you put in time…

Engaging people with Head of People Sasha Robinson

Jules and Jerome talk to Sasha Robinson, Head of People at Trainual, a company that codifies processes related to the people function of an enterprise,…

The Power of Mentorship with Garrett Richardson

Garrett Richardson has had a sense of purpose ever since he did a summer internship at the Freedom School, mentoring young people in Newark to…

Differentiate yourself through storytelling

In this episode, we discuss the current market conditions, and mixed messages headlines are giving us. Especially for people in tech, there’s a lot of…

Storytelling in Healthcare

Julienne and Jerome discuss healthcare and how storytelling can improve dialogue between patients and doctors. What they uncover in this episode is the importance of…

From Athlete to CEO with Niall Dunne

Julienne and Jerome speak to Niall Dunne, CEO of Polymateria, a company that is working on solving the enormous, worldwide problem of plastic pollutants. You’ll…

Building A Better World of Work with Craig Forman

Julienne and Jerome were excited to discuss the science of people with Craig Forman, from Culture Amp, a company that is dedicated to improving employee…

Building relationships in 2023

Julienne and Jerome discuss the art of building relationships and trust through an experience that Julienne had before the holidays. She describes how her assumptions…

2023 Trends to Follow

Happy New Year! In this first episode of 2023, Julienne and Jerome discuss HR trends in 2023, based on an article that Julienne was invited…

2022 Year In Review

Jerome and Julienne discuss lessons learned from the 5 most popular episodes of 2022, which are all linked below in the show notes. From Zev…

Live Storytelling Coaching with Anna Vafeiadou

Julienne and Jerome discuss how storytelling has enhanced their guest’s presentation and leadership skills. Anna Vafeiadou is responsible for the legal sector of the WWF…

Scientific Problem Solving with Gianna Biscontini

Julienne and Jerome speak to Gianna Biscontini, a board certified behavior analyst, bestselling author, and founder of W3RKWELL, a company that is dedicated to creating…

Heather Walker, PhD – Levity At Work

In this episode, we welcome Heather Walker, PhD, who has made a career of promoting, and implementing levity at work, through a variety of means….

Onboarding with Personal Stories

Jerome recently was invited as an expert speaker to appear on a panel along with two other experts to discuss onboarding. The central question posed:…

Leadership In A VUCA World

The acronym VUCA stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous. Does this resonate with you right now? How does leadership respond to such an environment? Julienne…

The Connected Community with Cormac Russell

Cormac Russell is a social explorer, an author and a much sought-after speaker. He is the Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of…

Brand Citizenship with Anne Bahr Thompson

Anne Bahr Thompson has a rich and layered background, from business school to banking to branding to research and advertising to purpose. Anne connects the…

Our Origin Story

In this episode, Jerome and Julienne reflect back on their meeting. Julienne had reached out to Jerome and members of the Narativ team, that led…

Quiet Listening with Jerome Deroy and Julienne B Ryan

In this episode, we look back to what we were talking about exactly a year ago, when we started the podcast. From a post pandemic…

Happier at Work with Aoife O’Brien

We welcome Aoife O’Brien in this episode. She’s the founder of Happier at Work, a business with the mission to support organizations in retaining top…

Psychological Safety with Sona Sherratt

In this episode of Story Talks, we welcome Sona Sherratt of Ashridge where she designs, teaches and client directs on several executive education programmes with…

Responsible Leadership with Earl Breon

In this episode, we welcome Earl Breon, a former active duty United States Marine with over 25 years of experience in coaching and leadership development….

Zev Shalev – Seeking The Truth in Storytelling

In this episode, Julienne and Jerome talk to Zev Shalev, CEO of Narativ Studios and Cool Wolf Inc. Yes, you read that right, Narativ spelled…

Answer Intelligence with Brian Glibkowski

In this episode, Jerome and Julienne are talking with the creator of Answer Intelligence (AQ)™, Dr. Brian Glibkowski. When Dr. Glibkowski wanted to know what…

Passion, Paycheck, Environment – with Jodi Brockington

In this episode, Jerome and Julienne talk to Jodi Brockington, who is a hiring, career, Diversity & Inclusion, and Corporate Social Responsibility consultant, with many…

Socratic Dialogue with Sira Abenoza

In this episode Jerome and Julienne talk with Sira Abenoza, a professor at ESADE business and law schools in Barcelona, Spain. She created the Institute…

Crisis Lessons

In this episode of Story Talks, Julienne and Jerome discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, and what they’re learning about leadership, listening and dealing with…

Leading Into The Unknown with Paul Browde, MD

Jerome and Julienne talk with Narativ co-founder Dr Paul Browde. Paul is a psychiatrist, a Narativ therapist, a marriage guidance counselor  and an actor. Paul…

We need to talk about the benefits cliff with Karen Schoellkopf

In this episode, Jerome and Julienne talk with Karen Schoellkopf, founder and CEO of Leap Fund. We look at Karen’s journey from MFA to tech…

Financial Health Expert George Grombacher

In this Story Talks episode Jerome and Julienne talk with George Grombacher who has worked in personal finance for 20 years and has been named a top…

Dialogue

In this short episode: Jerome and Julienne talk about the importance of silence in dialogue. How listening is key to understanding and not to be…

New Year Intentions vs Resolutions

Here is 2022! Julienne and Jerome discuss the value of setting an intention instead of beating yourself up about not coming through with your New…

Lessons from start up CEO Penny Schiffer

Why are Venture Capitalists not using tech to help them do their work?  That’s where Raized.ai, the company that Penny Schiffer created, comes in. Penny…

Making The Workplace Work Better for Working People

Jerome and Julienne talk with Matt Bahl – VP and head of workplace financial health, Financial Health Network. In this episode of Story Talks we…

The Value of Personal Storytelling

In this podcast Jerome Deroy and Julienne Ryan talk about the ways in which leaders can connect with their employees with personal stories in the…

How to share key knowledge for recruitment and retention

In this episode, Jules and Jerome take a deeper dive into something that they scratched the surface of in episode 1. That thing is knowledge…

Learning from First Graders

What can we learn from first graders and the school system to welcome back our colleagues into an in-person office environment? This episode considers the…

Vulnerability In Business

What happens when a leader tells a personal story about his father to a business audience? Does vulnerability connect you with your audience or does…

Knowledge Transfer in a remote workplace

Story Talks is a podcast hosted by Jerome Deroy and Julienne Ryan.In each episode we discuss the practices that engage, motivate, develop, retain, and attract…

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