Stop Hiding.

I’m on the hunt for the most dysfunctional, demotivated teams in your company. I want your most boring and uncreative people. I want the folks teetering on the edge of burnout.  I want the Debbie Downers. That bloke who won’t stop complaining. Give me the Quiet Ones, the pathologically timid. The woman with the strange haircut whose name you can’t remember. Give me the managers with zero charisma. The leaders who fell upwards. The ones who go bright red and turn into an expressionless robot onstage. The sociopaths who make Scarface look like a people-person. I want your Gen Z and all your snowflakes. The ones you ‘may as well’ replace with Chat GPT. The new recruits who can’t hold eye contact (nevermind a conversation). The twenty something with a neck stoop from years and years of double-screening. And as for the team that currently hates your guts? Let’s make your Monday morning strategy meeting the one people fight to get invited to.

I’m not a corporate trainer. I’m a writer and director. This is your invitation to re-write the story at large in your business. Upgrade your expressive intelligence to communicate persuasively with clients - and colleagues.

ENERGEIA is where ideas become action.

Energeia Studios

Energeia Studios

30 Laws of Story

1. Storytelling is only part magic.

2. A pitch is a story. An interview is a story. A difficult conversation is a story.

3. Humans are hard-wired for story. This is why both bad guys and good guys use it to get ahead.

4. We all intuitively recognise and respond to powerful storytelling.

5. Most people can't tell stories for sh*t.

6.  Understand it's an art and a science. You cannot have one without the other.

7.   Stories are not anecdotes. They are not awkward overshares.

8.  Telling a story doesn't mean centring yourself as the main event.

9.  Telling a story about your personal experience doesn't make you a show off.

10.  When you tell a story properly, it's almost impossible to look stupid.

11.  The plot of the story makes us understand. The expression of the story makes us feel. And this is what people actually remember.

12.  But your audience won't feel anything if your words are empty and your timing was weird.

13.  Some story beats have no words. Some are told energetically — a look, a tone of voice.

14.  If the words that come out of your mouth don't consistently match those in your head — you need to work on unifying those pathways.

15.  Energetics are what actors use to provoke laughter, tears and Oscar nominations.

16.  Energetics are what the world's most effective leaders harness to get sh*t done.

17.  Your energy is what people talk about at your funeral, or when you've left the room.

18.  Your energetics influence your legacy — and they are the key to inspiring loyalty.

19.  Energetic alchemy is what makes the date go well, or the client meeting bomb.

20.  If you can't harness your own energetic state, you will never know what you are truly capable of.

21.  An artist paints on canvas. When you tell a story, your voice is the paper, your manner is the colour, the frame, the materials used. You are The Thing.

22.  Charisma isn't fake. It's about expertly positioning yourself and putting your strengths in the spotlight.

23.  Audiences are not passive recipients. They must be won.

24.  Audiences can be physically present. But you can lose them at any time.

25.  When you can bring them back from the edge? That's mastery.

26.  You must tailor your approach to work in each medium — without losing sight of your real self. (No telephone voice!)

27.  Connection is not a hug. It's not cutesy. When it happens, it's f**king powerful. Babies are made, wars are declared, legacies are writ in stone.

28.  If you can stand up and tell a story effectively, you instantly become someone worth listening to.

29.  Be the person who puts their notes down. Who says, with utter confidence, 'I had this whole speech prepared. But actually, this is what needs to be said...'

30.  Be the person who always has the right words, when it matters most.