Mikey Mioduski thinks way too much about presentations.
He wanted to be an ad guy, but he stumbled into B2B tech. That's where he found an obsession with presentation design, and a larger opportunity. He founded GhostRanch to help marketers and execs raise the presentation bar for their organizations. While growing GhostRanch from a one man show into a nationally recognized firm, he started bringing his full-distributed team together for L&D oriented retreats focused on storytelling skills development. A bunch of clients asked if they could come too, which seemed like another opportunity, so he and his friends founded Story Camp, where he is CEO.
Communication skills are a career catalyst.
GhostRanch has shipped some 10,000 storytelling projects across some 300+ clients since 2015, which has given Mikey and his team an incredible vantage for observing what works and what doesn't in business storytelling. Having been "in the room where it happens" and seen how hundreds of different executive teams develop and scale stories, Mikey has formalized some thoughts on what makes the best ones, well, the best. The answer is actually so obvious it's dumb, but here it is:
The winners pour into their story craft. Everyone else just checks a box.
The best storytellers and story-enablers in business today are wildly intentional when it comes to developing presentations. Whether for themselves or for others to deliver, today's top communicators take a holistic approach to the three pillars of Presentation Excellence: Story (what it says), Screen (what it shows), and Stage (how it's delivered). Nail two of those? You're pretty good. Nail all three? You're in the top 0.01%, and your presentation will actually stand out.
Mikey dives deep into his presentation obsession on a weekly podcast called Presentation Thinking, as well as a weekly newsletter called the Story Camp Dispatch.
Want Mikey to speak about... speaking?
Although he's spent nearly two decades helping others with their presentations, Mikey has been able to translate those presentation lessons from the field into a few talks and workshops on the strategy, craft, and outcomes of .01% presentations. Hit him up on LinkedIn to inquire about a training or keynote!