The Power of Narrative Leadership

An Introduction to Narrative Leadership

7th October 2026
Fordyce Academy

The Programme

This introduction to working with organisations will:

  1. Reveal the unique potencies of three different types of story.
  2. Provide insights (and practice opportunities) to craft your leadership story.
  3. Help you to integrate speaking and being to support you in your leadership role of meaning-maker in your organisation.

Session Times

09.00 Welcome
09.15 Introducing the spoken word: the power of storytelling.
10.45 Break
11.00 What is a leadership story? Finding stories and telling stories.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Mining our stories to learn what serves us: authenticity, presence and connection.
15.00 Break
15.15 Integrating the learning and discovering opportunities for the future.
16.30 Close

The Cost

The Cost for this one-day programme including lunch is £195 plus VAT.


The Programme Leader

Sue Hollingsworth MBA has been a storyteller for over 30 years. She is Director of the Centre for Biographical Storytelling, a Founder of the School of Storytelling, Patron of the Friends of Amari Storytelling Centre in Crete and co-author of the best-selling The Storyteller's Way: Sourcebook for Inspired Storytelling and The Gathering Bag: Remembering the Heroines of Traditional San Stories.


Group Size

Group size: 20 or more