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Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Understanding Your Story with Kevin Allison
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
In this masterclass of HVB season 2 we brought in a master story teller in Kevin Allison. The biggest thing is to get a person to understand, don't just summarize, don't just walk us through a Wikipedia like where you're just giving us a broad overview. And you're explaining; it’s important to remember sensory details that will help us see almost like movie scenes, what was happening between people. That is what brings the story alive. So that's a good case right there where the bones of the story were incredible. Like that's just on paper and an incredible overview of a story, but it's not going to work unless you can fill in all those sensory details that bring it alive and make it emotional for us.
Storytelling is a soft skill that offers the ability to contextualize cybersecurity in a manner that any organization can understand to allow their business to stay safe.
Key Takeaways:
0:00 Previously on the show
2:37 Kevin introduction
3:20 Episode begins
3:39 Where Kevin is today
7:58 Kevin’s origin story
12:04 Cybersecurity is performing
17:08 Storytelling for business
21:00 Engineering a story
26:12 Authentic storytelling
34:54 Speaking isn’t perfect
41:02 Where to find Kevin
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