How we took lawyers from reporting to storytelling
Global Software Company
The challenge:
How do brilliant lawyers get heard in a technical business?
We partnered with the legal team at a global software company: a group of brilliant lawyers working in a highly technical, fast-moving environment. They came to us with three challenges:
Their lawyers weren’t being listened to across the business.
They struggled to influence stakeholders, despite deep expertise.
They had almost no time to spend developing the skill.
The approach:
Charismatic content, a safe space, and real practice.
Rather than another slide-heavy training session, we built an experience around three things:
A safe space. Somewhere senior experts could experiment, take risks, and be a little vulnerable, without any fear of judgement.
Charismatic, intuitive tools. Memorable ideas they’d actually use, from delivering Shakespeare’s “to be, or not to be” to standing out like Seth Godin’s Purple Cow.
Real practice. We spent half the session presenting for real: deliver a short talk, get feedback, reflect, and go again, until the tools became second nature.
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A safe space.
Somewhere senior experts could experiment, take risks, and be a little vulnerable, without any fear of judgement.
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Charismatic, intuitive tools.
Memorable ideas they’d actually use, from delivering Shakespeare’s “to be, or not to be” to standing out like Seth Godin’s Purple Cow.
"Hands down the best presentation skills workshop I’ve ever been part of."
Session participant
The results:
We’d rather let our client speak for themselves.
We could tell you it worked, but it’s better coming from them. Here’s what they said in the weeks that followed:
“We are still buzzing. The fun sound effects, interactive breakouts, and organic relationship building were perfectly aligned with our goals. Matt transformed our legal team’s communication from technical reporting to high-impact storytelling.” — Chief Legal Officer
“Matt kept the entire group extremely engaged for over 3 hours — it flew by. He made it fun, interesting, and we all walked away having learned a lot about ourselves and what we can work on individually to be better presenters.” — Commercial Attorney
