Storytelling Courses for Professionals
Rebecca Renner teaches live and on-demand classes on storytelling, creativity, media, brand trust, and the natural world.
Each course begins with a specific problem: how original ideas are made, why journalists ignore most pitches, how marketing builds or erodes trust, or how narrative shapes environmental conflict. Rebecca draws on her work as an award-winning author, National Geographic contributor, investigative journalist, and professional speaker to give participants frameworks they can apply to their own work.
Live Classes
These storytelling courses for professionals combine a live, focused presentation with examples, discussion, and Q&A. Registration includes access to the recording.
The Ideas That Don’t Exist Yet
Breakthrough ideas rarely come from nowhere. They emerge when knowledge from one domain collides with a problem from another.
This class examines synthesis as a method of innovative thinking. Participants learn how to make productive connections across fields, use analogy to transfer solutions between domains, and distinguish an idea with real potential from one that is merely novel.
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Why Journalists Ignore Your Pitches
Companies want coverage. Journalists need stories. Most bad media outreach begins by confusing those two things.
This class teaches communications professionals how journalists actually evaluate pitches. Participants learn to identify the story inside what an organization wants to promote, recognize what makes information genuinely useful to a reporter, and replace indiscriminate outreach with editorial judgment.
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Storytelling & the Natural World
Stories are the battleground for the future of our planet.
Environmental conflicts are fought through competing narratives. Most people will never read an environmental impact statement, inspect a watershed, or study climate data: they encounter these fights through a media frame. The account that wins public trust can decimate an ecosystem or save it. At the planetary scale, the contest over narrative decides whether we will have a habitable planet in the future—or not.
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On-Demand Storytelling Courses
Selected classes are available on demand after their live sessions.
On-demand registration includes the complete recorded class and any accompanying materials. The library will expand as new live courses are presented, creating a growing collection of professional classes on storytelling, innovation, communication, media, and trust.
Private Classes for Teams and Organizations
Rebecca also teaches selected courses privately for companies, professional associations, universities, and other organizations.
Private sessions can be adapted to the problems an organization is actually confronting. A media-relations class can examine the organization’s own pitches. A creativity session can focus on innovation within a particular industry. A brand-trust class can apply its framework to the customer experience the company has built.
For organizations looking for more sustained work, private training can also lead into consulting and advisory engagements.
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About Rebecca Renner
Rebecca Renner is an award-winning author, National Geographic contributor, investigative journalist, and professional speaker whose work has reached millions of readers.
Her journalism has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Outside, The Guardian, and other national publications. Her book Gator Country was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and People Magazine Book of the Week, received a Florida Book Award, and was selected to represent Florida at the Library of Congress National Book Festival.
Rebecca’s storytelling courses for professionals draw on the same work she brings to conferences, corporate audiences, universities, and professional organizations: finding the structure beneath a difficult problem and making it clear enough to use.