Storytelling in Organizations

Karin Thier is a founder of NARRATA Consult, a consulting institute focusing on the development and applications of storytelling and narrative methods in the fields of project debriefing, knowledge management, expert debriefing, cultural change and employer branding. She holds a PhD in the field of media pedagogy at University of Augsburg (Germany) on the development of an efficient learning history method for a practical use in companies in cooperation with the software company F.A.S.T. GmbH.  Since then, she has been using storytelling and narrative approaches and methods in numerous contexts, both in large corporations, as well as medium-sized and non-profit companies and organizations. Presently, she works as a consultant, trainer and coach and has published many articles and books on the topic of storytelling in organizations.

• Introduction.- Stories in Organizations.- The "Storytelling" Method.- Areas of Application.- Evaluation and Efficacy of Storytelling.- The Storytelling Procedure.- Learning Histories - Application Forms in Scientific and Educational Projects: An Internview with Prof. Rik Peters, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.- Other Methods and Variants of Storytelling.- Outlook - Short Variants of Storytelling.