The Bigger Story

We’re all facing the need for serious change, innovation, and re-invention. If you’re in the business of influence, inspiration, or persuasion, you know that the old techniques aren’t working like they used to. Our world is the midst of major transformation. Are you prepared to lead and navigate?

Get Storied is an education, publishing and communications platform that works with diverse world-changing efforts. Founded in 2009 by Michael Margolis, Get Storied provides a range of learning programs, info-products, and consulting solutions for change-makers and innovators. We advise companies, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs on how to get others to believe in their story.

The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. This truth applies both to individuals and institutions. The way we consume and produce stories is changing the bounds of modern culture. We’re all learning new ways of communicating, relating, and connecting.

Get Storied is here to translate your work into a bigger story. At its essence, people don’t buy your product, service, or solution, they buy the story that’s attached to it. If they don’t believe the story, all the convincing and coercing in the world will only make you blue in the face.

Who’s Behind This?

Hi! I’m Michael Margolis, the founder of Get Storied. For the last decade, I’ve worked at the intersection of branding, innovation, and culture change. I’m a bit of a story geek, who’s passionate about the essence of communications and relationships. From an early age, I’ve always been fascinated with how you take anything new and different and translate that into mainstream reality. You could say I’m a big picture, big hearted idealist, who knows how to get really practical.

Since 2002, I’ve helped pioneer a new discipline of business storytelling, applying this emergent vocabulary in more than 50 organizations including AARP, Ernst & Young, Marriott, NASA, National Audubon Society, UN Foundation, and YWCA. My work addresses the branding, strategic, and cultural dimensions of change. This past fall, I published a storytelling manifesto called Believe Me: Why Your Brand, Vision, and Leadership Need a Bigger Story. Read the early endorsements or Amazon book reviews.

Get Storied is out to frame a bigger conversation. I hope you begin to read this blog, download the storytelling manifesto, and let your voice be heard. Join a gathering tribe of people who believe in the power of bigger storytelling. I consult, speak, write, and teach around the world. For more information contact me.

Speaking Inquiries

If you’re looking for a speaker, check out my Speaking page. I present on topics such as brand storytelling, business re-invention, nonprofit communications, Gen Y marketing, and much more. I am regularly asked to speak around the globe with past keynotes in Lisbon, Istanbul, Washington DC, Toronto, Honolulu, and New York City.