Story 10x

Michael Margolis is the CEO and founder of Storied, a strategicmessaging firm specializing in the story of innovation and disruption.As a trusted advisor, Michael helps executives to demystify the complexand deliver on the promise of transformation. Michael operates anywherethere is a story worth telling, especially in Silicon Valley, Fortune500s, and global change. Michael is a frequent keynote speaker at topconferences around the world. He's trained tens of thousands onnarrative intelligence and how to build storytelling as anorganizational capability. Michael partners with c-suite executives,along with heads of product, design, marketing, community, and humanresources. Since 2002, he's advised clients across 34 industries and 15countries --including Facebook, Google, Hulu, Greenpeace, and NASA.

Michael is a two-time TEDx speaker, #1 Amazon bestselling author, and has morethan 200,000 followers on Twitter. His work has been prominentlyfeatured in Fast Company, TIME, and Inc. magazines. Armed with a degreein cultural anthropology, Michael began his career as a socialentrepreneur, funded by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations by the ageof 22. And became a startup-failure by the age of 24. The son of aninventor and artist, Michael grew up in Switzerland and Los Angeles. As a passion project, Michael recently co-founded Choco Libre, a secretsociety devoted to rare and exotic craft chocolate. Michael isleft-handed, color blind, and eats more chocolate than the averagehuman. Michael's next book, Story 10x: Turn the Impossible Into theInevitable, is available in bookstores on October 8.