helping you craft stories that matter
Hari’s Services
Classes & Workshops
Discover storytelling joy in classes or enhance communication skills for your team. Contact Hari for tailored classes or workshops to suit your needs.
Coaching
Elevate your communication impact. Connect passionately with your audience and refine your storytelling skills through personalized coaching with Hari.
Become client-centric in your strategy and messaging. Engage Hari as your storytelling consultant to craft authentic stories, engage your audience, and achieve your goals.
Consulting
You have a story worth telling …
We are a storytelling species.
Storytelling helps us value each other more and brings us closer together.
Stories connect us.
Stories inspire us.
Stories help you bring your audience into your journey,
to see your vision,
and to motivate them to join your mission.
You have a story that matters …
… so how do you begin crafting it?
Meet your storycoach:
Hari Stephen Kumar
I am a professional storytelling coach with 20+ years of experience, including at MathWorks and at Slack/Salesforce where I coached global sales teams on customer engagement. Working with clients and through years of study, I have developed proven storytelling and storylistening techniques for contexts ranging from sales to academia, from boardrooms to stage performances.
Whether you are working on a keynote or a toast, a marketing message or a non-profit mission statement, or just the use of stories to build relationships, I can help you connect with your audience more memorably and effectively.
So let us work together on crafting your story!
Photo by Danielle Tait Photography
My guiding values
I believe in storytelling, in the power of stories to connect people, and in the power of stories to move us toward inclusive social change.
I believe storytelling is not a talent that only some people have, but that it is a skill that we are all capable of learning and growing, through a growth-mindset approach involving practice and learning through iteration.
I believe in your authentic voice.
I believe in coaching you toward speaking fully and powerfully through your identity and presence, rather than trying to speak “like” someone else.
I believe this because of my own journey.
I have two Master’s degrees, one in engineering and one in communication, but those degrees are just mileposts in my longer journey from being a painfully shy and introverted teenager, and as an engineer who learned to love communication.
So I believe in your journey.
And so what is your story?
What is your motivating tension? Are you looking to develop your storytelling skills, and use these principles in your personal or professional lives? And how can I be a supporting character in your story, in your journey?
Reach out, I am available as your personal storytelling coach. And let's embark on the adventure of crafting your story together. On y va!