Keynote Speaker

on Storytelling

Experience the power and purpose of transformational storyshaping in real time.

Pattern Recognition, Story Development

How can you be more memorable, more effective, and more trustworthy as a leader in this new time?

How can your authenticity and purpose truly guide your audience to action?

What incredibly important insights did you leave by the side of the road? How can you, as an event creator, add radical connectivity and story skills?

In his memorable, inspiring and highly-interactive keynotes, Jay leverages brain science, insights on transformational communication, and his universal framework to deliver on the why what and how of story.

The collaborative process of connecting your words with your wisdom.

Jay reveals how shaping your essential insights into retellable stories can make your leadership more effective and your work more purposeful.

The keynotes include:

  • The brain science: How does the retellable story change how we think, how we connect, and what we remember?

  • The Why and What: In a world where people have less time and more information, why does story matter now more than ever? How do you discern between a story and an explanation? How will AI change how we relate?

Keynote Topics

  • It is not just the story you tell, but the greater story that you are living that matters.

    This is a keynote about making change with your every action, and how your stories bring that action to life. 

    • Define Story: What are stories? Where do they have impact? Jay shares definitions in order to draw a circle around retellability.

    • Anchor In Brain Science: An exploration into why stories matter, revealing how brain science informs memorability and effective communications.

    • Build Capacity: Jay provides his own unforgettable framework that will help the audience to forever see stories differently, and enable them to shape their own.

    • Make It Fun: Jay weaves inspiring stories throughout the presentation, referencing CEOs and Innovators who have built their stories

    • Connect Audience Members: Engage the audience to shape their own stories and share with one another

    Provide Takeaways: Spark the audience to create a collection of insights, lessons, and metaphors

  • For centuries, the American Dream has lit hearts alive around the world and drawn people here. But what is the dream now? And what’s your role in it? How do you bring your best story in this new time? By re-membering the gems you’ve left by the side of the road. This interactive keynote helps you integrate your greatest gifts through connective teachings, a story reboot process, and an exploration into collaboratively creating the great stories of our time.

    • Dream and Story: The relationship between the smaller stories of your life and the the bigger stories that guide cultures.

    • Model Storytelling: Share stories and insights that illuminate the link between personal purpose, vision and story

    • Explore the Senses: Enhance memorability through a multi-sensory experience in your stories

    • Focus on Moments: Time-travel between key past moments, present moments and future moments

    • Illuminate Transformation: Explore the role of story in culture change, within organizations and in the world

    • Share Methodology: Deliver the Journey Curve framework to map transformational stories and how to use them.

    • Build Engagement: Interactive from moment one, work with the audience to build on shared moments of transformation

  • How has story created change through time? From the movie that kept people out of the ocean, to the one that inspired spirituality, to the TV show that overthrew a Romanian dictator, stories have always been the guide to shift culture. But how do you create change with your story? How do you optimize influence, purpose and transformation in your everyday words? In this highly interactive session, Jay draws from famous movies, myths and leaders to create a path that enables you to be the story you want to change in the world.

Who is Jay Golden, really?

  • Wrote 183 drafts of his introduction to Retellable

  • Spoke on stages from London to Marrakesh to Melbourne

  • Drove his car on biodiesel for five years

  • Hitchhiked across Argentina, Australia, Europe and the Mediterranean (the last one by sailboat).

  • Coached CEOs of billion dollar companies and brand new start-ups  

  • Landed jokes in Italian, French and Spanish with native speakers and got a laugh each time

  • Participated in a 24-hour improvisational comedy marathon

  • Met his wife on Craigslist

  • Coached a speaker to tell a story in front of 10,000 people

  • Funded his travels through a venue he started at the Los Angeles Forum

  • Taught his son chi gung in order to help him calm his mind and make more free throws on his college basketball team

Jay has spoken at the following organizations:

  • Denver Lewis

    “Jay is a skilled presenter who energetically articulates the transformational power of story in branding. Our attendees walked away with a step-by-step understanding of how to craft effective, authentic (retellable) narratives.”

    —Denver Lewis, Conference Content Manager, New Hope Network

  • David Nihill

    “Our audience loved Jay's workshop and are still raving about it a year later. A hands-on practical experience that is equally enlightening as it is fun. Anytime we could have him back we would want him back!”

    —David Nihill, Founder, FunnyBizz Conference

When your authentic stories are retold, your insights carry influence far beyond you.

Elevate your retellability.

Let’s talk!