Today Ayla is the Director of Platform at F-Prime Capital (a leading US life science VC) where she provides post-investment support to their early-stage technology companies.

We are thrilled that Ayla Schlosser will be hosting this session. Ayla has worked as a coach for dozens of social impact organizations and entrepreneurs across 5 continents.

Ayla was her first introduction to the Marshall Ganz Storytelling for Leadership frameworks as a community organiser in Washington DC. In 2013, Ayla founded Resonate, a non-profit organization in East Africa designed to empower women by building self-confidence and leadership skills.  Together with her co-founder, Ayla adapted Marshall Ganz's tool from a political campaigns and issue organizing framework to empower women as leaders. To date, a centerpiece of Resonate’s training is storytelling. They have worked with 120+ partners across East Africa and trained 16.000 women. 

Part 2: Story of Us / Story of Now

Storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. 

"The right kind of story at the right time, can make an organization “stunningly vulnerable” to a new idea." - Stephen Denning author of The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative

Part two of our workshop will develop:

1. Who are we, and what common challenge do we face? (Story of Us)

2. What could the world look like if we made a change, and what can we do about it right now? (Story of Now)

By answering and learning to articulately three questions (self, us and now), you will build a foundational leadership skill that will allow you to communicate in a clear, compelling, and memorable way about your business to your team and the outside world.

Please note that this will be an interactive workshop.