"Josh and Lily are superstars! They deliver really good training courses for whole organisations without that I’M – A – SCARY – CORPORATE – ROBOT stuff you get so often."

Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator, Historic Royal Palaces.

“I had the most fantastic experience at the Sharing the Message workshop and have been talking about it NON STOP since. Genuinely, I haven’t participated in such an impactful and relevant training workshop in a very long time (possibly ever!)”

Head of Professional Development, Versus Arthritis.

“Ben will watch someone speak a sentence or paragraph, think for a moment, then gently suggest a seemingly inconsequential and tiny change to body position, vocal technique, phrasing or some other technicality. The first time I saw him in action, I thought ‘Oh, come on, that’s not going to work’…and then a seemingly completely different person started speaking to the group. Ben’s ability to find the speaker within us, to build confidence and impact with small, simple and easy changes to our behaviour, is a form of magic. “

Clinical Lead, Improvement Directorate (Time For Care), NHS England & NHS Improvement

“Concise, valuable lessons you can really use in day-to-day work to transform the way in which you present and persuade.”

Senior Civil Servant, MiP/FDA.

"A really valuable morning’s work. Constructing and telling our story is important to us and the exercises have helped enormously in shaping that message."

Development Director, Mott MacDonald.

"I found the workshop useful in that it helped me to say things in a more clear, interesting and concise way and showed me how valuable it is to add a human element into a narrative."

Events and Communications Manager, One World Media.

"Telling a human story, and telling it through the eyes of others, is a game-changing way of communicating."

Strategy Director, Aegis Media.

“Working with theWholeStory has really brought voices to life across our organisation.  Some have found confidence and ownership of their own narratives, others have created more compelling pictures of their challenges and proposed solutions, and many have found the link between their passion and their message bringing a powerful authenticity to their words.  Almost as important was that the learning was both challenging and a lot of fun, enabling the whole organisation to work as peers and practice what we preach about the valuable contribution each team member has to make.”

Director of Commissioning and Strategic Development, NHS Leeds North CCG.

"Our facilitator, Lily created a safe environment in which to practice engaging an audience. The training was highly practical which made for great energy in the room and allowed for the opportunity to practice with different people. I’ve attended a number of presentation skills courses before but this really honed skills in a concise, practice based and creative manner."

A participant from our regular workshops with EY.

“I just wanted to say thank you for an excellent day yesterday and express how grateful I am to you both. Your insightful nuggets were particularly powerful and have the potential to make all the difference for me. I know I need committed practice and focus – but I am smiling whilst I write this – as the thought of practicing actually feels like it could be fun?! Hopefully the results will speak for themselves! Thank you again for an invaluable session.”

A comment following a day of coaching to prepare a difficult presentation.

“Our organisation has, in recent years, undergone its fair share of change to ensure that we are ready to face not only our current challenges, but those that are yet to come. It is important that we take our dedicated workforce, of specialist colleagues, on our journey. Working with TheWholeStory (in person and online workshops) has helped our managers engage authentically with their teams, by explaining their strategy using storytelling techniques. It has enhanced their communication with both groups and individuals alike.”

Leadership and Culture Consultant, MPS.

‘It has been a delight to work with theWholeStory. They fill a room with enthusiasm, and have been very collaborative, considerate and flexible with our team in the creation of a tailored Visitor Engagement Training programme (despite numerous covid-related delays and subsequent necessary alterations!). This is a really exciting project for us and I have confidence in the value that it will bring for our visitors and colleagues alike.’

Learning and Development, Tate.

“I have to be honest: I was a sceptic. But I was so wrong. It’s hard to overestimate the impact that Josh and ‘the whole story’ had with my charity. He inspires, enthuses and motivates in a very charismatic and approachable manner. He really gets people to believe and up their game. Within days, we were improving our copy and far better, connecting with our partners and supporters. It wasn’t just the communications team either; the approach benefited all. In short, a transformative experience: highly recommended.”

Chief Executive, Crimestoppers UK.

“theWholeStory have been an absolute joy to work with. They quickly understand the needs of a business and deliver high quality creative solutions drawing on their expert communication skills. Work with them once and your ideas about what could be possible will quickly grow. Work with them twice and your ideas will change forever.”

Senior Account Manager, Arts & Business.

“A big thank you to Josh and Lily for a great event and for pulling it together so quickly and giving us the skills to be able to craft and tell our future story. We are pulling together the stories created on the day, into a storybook to launch our innovation related staff schemes.”

Director of People Services and Communications, Phoenix Community Housing.

“I just wanted to say thank you for delivering the storytelling course. The feedback has, unsurprisingly, come back very positive and I’ve had lots of discussions with colleagues about how they are putting what they learnt into practice.”

Training and Insight Team, Ofsted.

“Lily and her business partner Josh provide a challenging, interesting and extremely high-quality product time and time again. Their background in theatre makes them highly credible when introducing the world of storytelling to the corporate world. With me, they have worked with managers, clinicians and facilitators to develop their impact when delivering an important message. Whether to address hundreds from the lectern or to optimise that corridor conversation they introduce a set of tools and techniques that are both easily understood, remembered and highly effective. I have had the pleasure of working with Lily and Josh in several organisations now from the conference platform through to small groups and 1:1 coaching. Results = excellent +++ I highly recommend Lily and Josh at TheWholeStory to you.”

Improvement Manager, Time for Care Team, NHS England + NHS Improvement.

“Josh helped us to dig deep and reflect hard on our purpose. In doing so, he’s strengthened our organisation and the impact we are having.”

Founder London National Park City.

“I used techniques from theWholeStory to help me persuade clinical colleagues to make a change. By creating a story, I was able to break down the challenge and resistance and could lead with their commitment rather than their compliance.”

Strategic Lead Shropshire Doctors Cooperative.

“Thanks for running the training, you did a great job of facilitating the tour creation and managing the team. I'm very happy with the results and the team will definitely run with it far more than if I had written a tour myself and trained it out to them. They feel more ownership of it as a result of collaborating on the process. Thanks too for the tips. I'm looking forward to the group rolling it out. Thanks again, I will definitely recommend to others!”

Public Participation Officer, D-Day Story Museum.

“Bletchley Park engaged TheWholeStory to help review and refresh our one hour Highlights Tour, to ensure it was warm and welcoming to a wide range of audiences. Working with our volunteer tour guides, Lily and Josh set about building relationships and trust and managing expectations about how we were all going to work together. Lily and Josh took so much time to immerse themselves fully in Bletchley Park's history and our desire to better engage visitors with our often too-complex stories. Over the course of many two-day workshops, they worked with the guides to create a framework for the new tour, which still allowed flexibility and the guides to show their personalities and their passions. It was a great experience and we are delighted with how Lily and Josh tackled this difficult transformation of a core part of our visitor offer.”

Director of Public Engagement Bletchley Park Trust.

"The first training session that I’ve ever been to that I can see myself using immediately. Fantastic stuff!!"

Development manager, The London Community Foundation.

“theWholeStory did two workshops for the Young Management Consultancy Association – a group of people who after a long day at work would be a tricky audience to please. However, Josh and Lily were so successful in creating a dynamic, exciting evening, where everyone felt like they learnt something practical that they could apply to their day job, that we invited them back to do a second event. The comments from the attendees were very positive. I would recommend using theWholeStory for their original approach applied in an accessible and useable way – and of course for their ability to win over a roomful of consultants after a hard day at the office!”

Chair of the Young MCA.

“The storytelling sessions really helped people tell a ‘corporate’ story in a very individual, personal way – and helped them to bring it alive in a way that resonated with them personally. The sessions were very much enjoyed by all who attended.”

Director, Lansons.

“We asked theWholeStory to come and give a storytelling training session to all our Directors with the aim of helping them to find the story in their global market research findings.

All the attendees came back enthusing about the course and how useful it was. All said it exceeded their expectations and all said they would recommend it to others.”

Marketing Director, Research Partnership.

“A big thumbs-up for the story-telling training yesterday. It was excellent, motivating and inspiring. Having done training on that topic in the past, I'd say that Lily's approach was - by some measure - the best I've experienced. I think she really captures the concept of bringing things to life ... and the more one experiences and practises the art the better.”

A Postal Museum participant in Storytelling to Communicate with Visitors.