About the Program
Our brains are wired for stories. Stories move, engage, motivate, and inspire people. It is an essential skill for ensuring impactful results, be it for cracking interviews, advancing career, selling ideas, persuading investors, encouraging teams, and/or inspiring people. This program is designed to understand various nuances of storytelling. The program intends to guide professionals on the importance of framing, methods to hone communication skills for effective delivery, decode one’s own storytelling approach and learn techniques for crafting compelling stories.
Pedagogy: The program will be highly interactive entailing pre-reads, role-plays, break-out room group discussions, case-lets, individual practice, and reflection sessions.
The objectives of the programme are:
Session 1: Stories that inspire: Setting the Context
Why storytelling?
Passion & purpose
Session 2: Art of framing stories within context
Defining the objective
Three-act story
Session 3: Beyond words
Truths of a storyteller
Power of three
Session 4: Elements of storytelling
Authenticity
Session 5: Decoding the power of persuasion
Pathos, Ethos, Logos
Moving from words to action
Session 6: Igniting emotions in others
Application of emotional intelligence in storytelling
Establishing rapport & connect
Capturing the audience and establishing executive presence
Target Participants: Industry professionals across all domains, entrepreneurs, academicians, and researchers.
1. Registration fees include the following:
For all the participants:
Residential participants:
Non Residential participants:
Registration Terms & Conditions:
A.Upon payment of program fees registrations are tentatively confirmed. The final confirmation on the commencement of the program shall be communicated latest 2 weeks before (offline program) & 1 week before (online program) for the scheduled start date of the program.
B.Refund policy
Fees once paid can be adjusted up to 1 financial year against future nominations only. In case a course is canceled on account of inadequate participation or any other unforeseeable reasons, the participants will be informed of the cancellation by e-mail or Fax and the fee will be refunded. IIM Mumbai will not be liable for any other expenses incurred by the company or the participant. Any transaction fee will not be refunded.
C. IIM Mumbai is not responsible for any other expenses borne by the participants due to rescheduling/cancellation of its MDPs
2. Individual Registration
If you wish to register & make payment, please click here Register
3. Company-sponsored / Bulk Registration:
In the case of company-sponsored candidates, please share the nomination list and GST details to program@iimmumbai.ac.in for invoice generation.
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Mode | Offline / IIM Mumbai Campus (Offline) |
Duration | 3 Contact Days |
Programme Dates | Mar 16, 2026 to Mar 18, 2026 |
Program Chair | Prof. Megha Gupta, Prof. Sumi Jha |
Program Co-Chair | ----- |