Workshops: Professionals & Leaders

All workshops are interactive and provide hands-on learning opportunities.

Mobilizing the Power of Diversity through Story:
A Path to High Performance Teams

M. Blair, President, Pelerei, Inc.
I thought I knew all about diversity. I came away from Noa's workshop seeing a whole new way to effectively employ diversity in my teams.

How can diversity enrich and support a better functioning team?

How can storytelling be used to embrace issues of diversity?

Exciting new research cuts through the politics of diversity and shows how and why cognitive diversity is a powerful way to drive knowledge generation and support high-performance teams. Harnessing the power of diversity requires an understanding of how and where cognitive diversity works, along with practical expertise in getting people to collaborate—even when they are very different.

In this workshop you will acquire the tools you need to expand productive work across differences.

  • Learn how stories can help redefine your reactions to difference and understand it as an asset in your team.
  • Cultivate your ability to understand and respect multiple points of view without needing to own them yourself.
  • Experience a practical model developed to help create trust and improve communication.

The Basics of Organizational Storytelling

Emily Carroll, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
Your lively moderation of the event and storytelling expertise helped to encourage attendees to share their "COPD story" with others, and stressed the importance of effective communication with physicians, family members and friends.

Storytelling has become an essential skill for managers and organizational leaders because it can spark innovation, build community, transmit values, share knowledge and generate followers and new leaders in an organization. Many managers and organizational leaders, however, have no background in storytelling.

In this workshop Noa Baum offers an interactive opportunity to learn the basics of organizational storytelling. You will learn:

  • What makes storytelling powerful
  • The elements of an organizational story
  • The purposes for which stories can be used in organizations
  • How to find and craft your own story
  • How to build an effective narrative to achieve specific goals and objectives

Be the Presenter you Want to Hear

Neil Olonoff, Knowledge Management Consultant, US Army Logistics/Innolog
You come away enriched, with a greater sense of your own capacity to communicate and connect with the world.

Business audiences crave memorable presentations. It's not just what you say, but how you say it! Learn to communicate with style and ease, and get your message across as you intended.

Learn to craft interesting and effective presentations when you use innovative tools to harness the power of storytelling for communicating in business settings. Noa will guide you through hands-on exercises to improve your skills.

You will:

  • Understand the elements of spoken language
  • Develop an effective and inspiring presence
  • Improve your vocal expression and range
  • Connect deeply with your listeners

Making It Work: Collaboration and Teambuilding

Joshua Levisohn, Ph.D., Headmaster,
Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, Rockville, MD
Noa's Team-Building workshop and use of the arts and creative expression helped our team discover its strengths and weaknesses and allowed us to create better working relationships. Her easy-going nature and her infectious energy made the workshop both enjoyable and very productive.

Build diverse, accepting, and trusting teams with storytelling. Your team will learn the finer points of collaboration through a combination of story work and team building exercises.

Interactive activities both reveal and teach team dynamics, leadership, and problem solving. Discover how to build on your team’s strengths and overcome challenges facing diverse groups in organizations every day.

More Praise for Noa’s Professional Workshops

Aaron Siegel, Senior Writer/Editor,
Office of the Federal Register, National Archives
Noa brought her storytelling expertise to one of the most interesting and unique diversity workshops that I have ever attended. Under her guidance, a roomful of men and women shared stories and by the end of the workshop I felt a deep sense of fulfillment and connection to people I had met just two hours before.

Marshall Presser, Software Technical Marketing
Noa's story telling course has help me enormously in my technical presentations. For one, the use of narrative describing customer successes and failures captures the audience and helps them remember the presentation long after the Power Point has faded from their minds. Secondly, her tips on presentation style and relation to the audience builds a tighter bond between presenter and audience so that the audience is more involved in the presentation. I would wholeheartedly recommend Noa's workshops to anyone.