LATEST ARTICLES BY ANDREW
Award winning speaker – the ‘Multi-Story Man’. Helping leaders to sell themselves and their ideas through storytelling.
Developing your brand story (interview with Puck Creations)
It was great to interview Sian Cardy and Stefano Capacchione from Puck Creations for the ‘Leaning Forward’ podcast recently. It’s an episode with a decidedly international flavour, not least because they live in [...]
Learning from the Greeks (modes of persuasion)
The Greeks knew a thing or two about persuasive rhetoric and in this episode we examine a principle put forward by Aristotle – he called it ‘modes of persuasion’ and they include the BIG [...]
How Malcolm Gladwell changed my life
Andrew shares a personal story, an extraordinary moment of serendipity and an illustration of a small experience with a big significance.Show is hosted by Andrew Thorp, AKA 'The Multi-Story Man'.Andrew is a professional speaker, [...]
Why storytelling matters in business
In this episode, Andrew explores the importance of storytelling as a tool for persuasion. He describes it as a 'superpower' and suggests we all have the potential to be confident and effective storytellers. Using [...]
Leaning Forward – teaser
A teaser for forthcoming episodes of our podcast 'Leaning Forward'.Show is hosted by Andrew Thorp, AKA 'The Multi-Story Man'. Andrew is a professional speaker, trainer and consultant in the field of verbal communication and [...]
Between a rock and a hard place
Something unusual happened on an early morning walk, with some interesting lessons to be learned.Show is hosted by Andrew Thorp, AKA 'The Multi-Story Man'.Andrew is a professional speaker, trainer and consultant in the field [...]
Value the in-between stuff
Image from Robert Bye on Unsplash If only there were more hours in the day! It’s a familiar lament, but has the shift to remote (home) working actually made that wish come true? [...]
A vital message needs a great storyteller
Dad, you've really got to watch this. So said my daughter last week, and she was right - I really DID have to watch this, and so do we all. She was referring [...]
How far does likeability get you?
In the opening chapter of his book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell introduces the concept of ‘thin-slicing’ with the strapline “How a little bit of knowledge goes a long way”. It’s about the way we [...]
TEDx Bollington – one year on
Top row: Andrew Vincent, Ali Foxon, Andy Hall, Andrew Greenwood Bottom row: Ellie Pool, Linton Foat, Paul Lewis, Charlotte Simpson It was twelve months ago this week that a group of 8 [...]
Embrace the storytelling approach
Interview for Twelve Scholars I will always seize the opportunity to promote the value of storytelling in business, so when my good friend Bob Buckley invited me to be interviewed for his Twelve [...]
Zoom fatigue: is it a thing?
Then my whole world went zoom. Fat Larry’s Band might have reached No.2 in the 1982 UK singles chart with “Zoom” but I don’t think that word was on our lips quite as [...]
Personal Development through JOT
Huge thank you to Kirsty James for her amazing insights on networking skills at the recent JOT event at the Wilmslow Conference Centre (Total Fitness, Handforth). I consider myself a networking veteran but [...]
A new personal development concept for the North West
This picture cropped up on my Facebook feed the other day, a speaking event from 2016 in Bucharest, Romania. And ‘feed’ is perhaps the key word - because the one thing I saw [...]
A love affair with TED
Do schools kill creativity? Confessions of a recovering micromanager This is what happens when you reply to spam email Here’s an idea: let’s invite a bunch of people to sit in a theatre [...]
