Episode 47: Executive Influence and Strategic Storytelling

Kristiana has spent the past twenty years leading innovation for design and technology teams at Fortune 500 companies, and there is one pattern that keeps showing up no matter the company or the team. Brilliant leaders bring ideas that could genuinely change the business, and they have no idea how to pitch those ideas in a way that earns buy-in. So the ideas die in the conference room before anyone even gets to explore them. In this episode, Kristiana breaks down seven of the most common influence gaps costing teams their best thinkers, and shares the real story of a leader named Carla whose pitch fell apart in the room, and what changed once she learned a better way to tell the story. This framework grew out of a partnership Kristiana did more than ten years ago with Techstars Accelerators at Target, where she took the strategies that help startups win funding and adapted them for leaders pitching inside corporate teams. Download the 7 Executive Influence Gaps & How to Solve Them Guide: https://www.worthytolead.co/influenceguide Master the Art of Selling Ideas to the C-Suite. Join the Innovation Storytelling Workshop: https://www.worthytolead.co/storytelling  CONNECT WITH KRISTIANA:Website: https://www.worthytolead.co/LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kristianacoronaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/worthytolead/