Find truth and understanding through sharing your unique experiences and stories.

Do you have a story to tell?

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About Leading with Impact through Storytelling

Original and custom storytelling workshops designed to help individuals build storytelling skills required for being authentic and relatable – and make these skills actionable and impactful.

Robyn Shumer speaking on stage at TED event

How It Started

In 2018, Robyn Shumer gave a TEDx talk called “What’s Your Story” where she challenged the audience to think about their deepest most profound moments of failure and accomplishment and to get comfortable sharing the stories that shaped who they are.  She later launched “What’s Your Story,” a sustainable community storytelling initiative that changes peoples’ lives through creating connections, pathways to healing and raising money for nonprofits.

Leading with Impact Through…

Available Workshop Courses

Kickstarting Your Career

Design a strategy to land that next job and leverage practical tools to communicate your value, build authentic connections, and position yourself for career success.

Leadership

Learn the research behind a method designed to enhance our leadership skills. As leaders and individual contributors who influence, it is important for us to be able to motivate and inspire our team.

Culture Map

Cultural differences often determine what someone views as acceptable workplace behavior. Knowing and respecting these differences is crucial in today's global environment. Erin Meyer dispels the confusion by providing a "culture map" for visualizing these differences and identifies eight pivotal problem areas marked by cultural disparities, creates a scaled continuum for each area and plots countries along each progression.

Storytelling

Are you looking to lead with impact through storytelling? Join this interactive workshop to learn a proven method and gain practical tools to craft stories that are impactful, memorable, and actionable. This session will empower you to connect with your audience and inspire meaningful change.

Change Management

Navigating change can be complex, but having the right tools makes all the difference. This interactive workshop introduces a practical Change Management Toolkit, equipping participants with a structured approach to drive successful change initiatives. Learn how to craft clear, consistent messaging, engage stakeholders effectively, and anticipate resistance.

Thinking & Learning Styles

Learn how understanding the thinking & learning styles of yourself and others, can influence the way you work. We will review the origins of this model and discuss the business benefits of applying. Why? Because it is important for us to be able.

A Time to Think

Can you imagine a world where there is order to meetings and everyone's voice is heard equally?

In this interactive workshop, you will learn 10 life-changing, meeting-changing behaviors, based off the work of Nancy Kline from her book Time to Think.

Personal/Professional Branding

Learn how to clearly define who you are, what you do, how you do it, and why it matters by answering five key questions that will help you articulate your professional brand with confidence and clarity.

Time Management

Time management is a critical skill-but learning it doesn't have to feel like a chore! In this interactive, game-based workshop, participants will engage in fun, hands-on challenges designed to reinforce key time management strategies without even realizing they're learning. By gamifying productivity principles, this session encourages engagement, collaboration, and real-world application, making it easier to adopt habits that boost efficiency, focus, and work-life balance.

Previous Speakers & Their Stories

What People are Saying

  • Dr. Michael Sunga

    Teacher of English at Livingston High School

    “My public speaking class was excited to welcome Robyn Shumer as a guest professional oratorical clinician. Robyn shared her TED Talk, a compelling personal journey, from which she modeled various practical approaches to storytelling, effective rhetorical techniques, and constructive feedback to aid and encourage the students in shaping their own talks. Our experience with Robyn empowered the students to harness their individual stories and find their unique voices, adding to the toolkit of public speaking strategies they have acquired throughout the school year.”

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  • Craig Kramer

    Johnson & Johnson Mental Health Ambassador

    “Robyn Shumer is Johnson & Johnson’s ‘go-to’ storytelling coach. A successful TEDx speaker, she enthusiastically shares the tools acquired during her preparation along with a listening ear that hears what’s said and unsaid and guides storytellers through the process of finding their voice, their style and their WHY. Robyn offers honest and skillful feedback and is also a committed mental health advocate and National Ambassador for Project HEAL.”

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  • Kristina Saffran

    Co-founder and former CEO Project HEAL

    “I highly recommend Robyn Shumer for any storytelling or coaching workshops that your company needs. Robyn models authenticity and vulnerability, helping participants feel comfortable sharing raw parts of themselves and nailing effective delivery. The recent workshop that she led for my non-profit (Project HEAL) received rave reviews.”

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  • Dr. Stan Amaladas

    Director Mauro Institute for Peace & Justice

    I had the pleasure of attending Robyn's Leading with Impact Through Storytelling workshop at the International Leadership Association Annual Meeting as a pre-conference session. It was, without a doubt, the best storytelling workshop I’ve experienced. Robyn captivates the audience with her charisma and insight, leaving everyone inspired and equipped with the tools to craft and share their own powerful stories.