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The winning communication framework to empower people, performance, and professional outcomes.

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“Steve is an expert at cutting through the corporate speak to focus on our audience, creating lasting impact and positive outcomes for them and for our global brand.”

CISCO | Mark Murphy, Director Partner Go to Market

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP through VALUE-DRIVEN ENGAGEMENT

Before we tell our teams what to do or tell our customers what to buy, they first have to recognize why doing it or buying it creates meaningful value for THEM and their personal goals.

Simply put, until our audience knows why they should pay attention to our message, they won’t.

Weak communication costs US brands alone a collective $1.2T per year in wasted labor hours and lost productivity, and $12.5K per employee in annual career underperformance.*

Connective, recognizable, actionable story is the key to value-driven communication and successful leadership that moves the needle toward optimal outcomes and clear purpose of performance for our employees, customers, and organizations.

* Source: Grammarly Business & The Harris Poll.

Steve has partnered with over 150 of the world’s top brands to develop and deliver thousands of value-driven messages, earning deeper customer investment, driving increased employee performance, and helping organizations and their people scale for winning success outcomes.

As a public face and voice for Cisco, Splunk, Fujifilm, Bayer, Panasonic, GE, Siemens, Sony, Xerox, HP, Intel, Heidelberg, and many more, Steve has personally field-tested and data-proven the psychology insights that lead to internal and external company communication value.

Steve connects leaders to employees, teams to brands, and brands global markets.

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Obvious Passion. Clear Value. Infectious Energy.

Steve’s 3-tier Story Moves the Needle™ program delivers a data-backed strategic path to value-based communication between executives and their directors and between leaders and their teams.

When every voice from the top of the pyramid to the bottom and across every business unit is clear and empowered, every player understands the deep personal value in their role. When every role is fully invested in creating optimal outcomes, organizations realize 17x higher engagement, 21% greater productivity, and 22% higher profitability.*

* Gallup Business Journal

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Supercharged Team Engagement and Performance

The 3 Levels of Psychological Information Processing

3x Impact Targets: Information, Inspiration, Motivation

Action Orientation Through Value-Driven Messaging

How FORTUNE Leaders Speak to the Heart and Head

Communication Authority: Clarity, Credibility, Consistency, Continuity

Structure and Story Flow for Earning Trust and Buy-In

Brand Differentiation in Limited Bandwidth Engagements

Steve shows your conference attendees how Story Moves the Needle™ and empowers performance across teams, clients, and organizations.

“A truly remarkable, powerful, and actionable keynote. I wish every guest speaker would create this much value for our attendees.”

NOKIA | Bill Duncan, VP of Marketing

NOTHING GETS SOLD UNTIL THE STORY GETS TOLD

“Steve is a natural storyteller who’s so compelling, you WILL believe that you are the hero.”

FUJIFILM | Mark Stephenson, Print Product Lead

No one likes a sales pitch, but everyone loves a story.

Sales without story or pitch without payoff are recipes for lost opportunity. And the reasons most engagements fail to connect with an audience or drive transformational action. The best brands and most memorable leaders demand value in every word, on every slide, and in each argument or directive. Value only sells when we balance information with inspiration, marketing with meaning, and promotion with passion in our brand story. Because the world’s top communicators know that Nothing Gets Sold Until the Story Gets Told.