Training
Storytelling 101
The best story wins. It wins attention, it wins investment and it wins media coverage. Curious Public’s Storytelling Workshop helps you understand how the principles of good storytelling can help you stand out. We get you working with each other to practice storytelling. And then we help you apply those lessons to your work.
Clear Writing
Curious Public’s Clear Writing Workshop is a hands-on course that helps you turn complex writing into clear writing that educates, engages and activates audiences. You’ll learn the principles of clear writing, how to identify unclear writing and how to overcome bad habits. Along the way, we’ll also touch on the basics of good storytelling and the secret to writing with purpose. The course includes a take-home editing assignment.
Media Training (for Beginners or Advanced)
The communications landscape has changed a lot, but media is still the best way to get your story out there. Whether you’re showing thought leadership, introducing a new product or service, or defending your point of view, navigating media is tricky—especially when you’re trying to deliver a 20-second sound bite. That’s where we come in.
AI Best Practices for Communicators
This 3-hour workshop is designed to give communicators a comprehensive overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and its practical applications in communications. The workshop will cover AI fundamentals, best practices for integrating AI into your work as well as a hands-on exercise using AI tools for content creation. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to effectively use AI to support their communications activities.
The Art of Presenting
In this 3-hour workshop, participants will learn the strategies and skills needed to craft and deliver a memorable presentation. This interactive session gives participants a chance to work collaboratively and creatively while putting into practice storytelling and public speaking.
Communications Planning
In the sage words of Yogi Berra, if you don’t know where you’re going, then you’ll end up someplace else. You could have the most powerful story in the world, but how do you know it’s going to take your organization where you want it to go? Curious Public’s Communications Planning Workshop gives you a way to think structurally about any communications activity you can think of—from a simple social media post to a full-blown campaign.
Elevate Your Elevator Pitch
In Partnership with Corporate Speech Consultants
Nothing is harder than giving the ‘elevator pitch’ about yourself – a brief, impactful description of what you do, and why it counts. That’s not your fault. You know yourself, and what you do, too well. But you’re not a writer, and you’re not a presenter. You’re a leader. And that’s where we come in.
Give the Speech of Your Life
In Partnership with Corporate Speech Consultants
Whether you’re an aspiring leader who wants to get more attention, or a seasoned leader who wants to shake things up a little – sometimes, a great speech is just the way to do it. We work with you to write something incredible, and polish your performance so you stand out.
Our Other Courses
- Speechwriting
- Digital Storytelling for Startups
- The Art Of The Briefing Doc
- Intergenerational Communication with Gen X, Y & Z
- Crisis Communications Planning and Training
We can also design and deliver a customized training workshop tailored to your communications needs.
Partners
Our partners aren’t just the best in the business at what they do—they’re great people who we’re proud to work with.
Corporate Speech Consultants
Corporate Speech Consultants (CSC) are internationally renowned coaches who elevate executive and corporate speakers so they can achieve their goals. They tailor their approach to each client’s needs through training and interactive seminars for executive teams. CSC has expertly served 10,000 clients in 20 different countries.
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Counsel Public Affairs
Counsel Public Affairs is one of Canada’s most respected and successful government relations and public relations firms. Counsel provides a full suite of services in national and provincial government relations, public affairs, strategic communications, crisis management, and Indigenous facilitation.
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Aubs and Mugg Inc.
Aubs and Mugg is a multi-disciplinary design firm based in Toronto. This award-winning agency shapes authentic and meaningful brand experiences through observation, collaboration, and a commitment to craft.
Aubs and Mugg specializes in internal and External Community Engagement and Discovery, Brand Pillar and Narrative Development, Visual Brand Development, Brand Activation, Graphic and Website Design, and Ambassador Training and Onboarding.
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Denise O'Neil Green Consulting
Denise O’Neil Green Consulting is an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) consulting company, empowering EDI leaders and organizations to genuinely go beyond the performative and be truly authentic in their development and implementation of EDI strategies. Services include customized EDI education and training, coaching and mentoring, inspirational keynotes, plus strategy policy development, planning and workplace climate reviews.
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Foster Films Canada
Foster Films Canada is an award-winning video production company with over a decade of experience delivering high-quality live and pre-recorded video content and editing services to corporations, non-profits, and small businesses across Canada. The agency specializes in shooting, editing, and producing promotional media, education videos, and product advertising.
Click here to learn more about Foster Films Canada
evolution evolution
evolution evolution provides professional and personal coaching services. The consulting firm helps professional leaders and organizations shift from a belief of “what is the work” to “what is the mission.” Coaches engage with executives, leaders, founders, and teams who feel isolated or in critical transitions to help them align fully with their purpose, conviction, and clarity. evolution evolution’s expertise in improving team management and the recruitment of top-tier talent gives them a refined insight into how to best build a conscious culture within organizations.
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Affiliate Partners
Kristen Gross
Director of Sales and Communications Advisor
Kristen Gross is a writer, communicator, sales and marketing professional with experience in Toronto, San Diego, and Vancouver. She is the western lead for Lloyd Rang Communications. She telegraphed a career in the communications department of the Office of the Premier of Ontario into a freelance business, True North Communications based in San Diego.
With clients in utilities, academia, and the outdoor industry, she has a wide range of experience creating materials from speeches, to press releases, social media, and editorial content. She was the lead on the government’s annual progress report, distilling technical results across all ministries into a public-facing piece, including directing its photos, videos, and graphic design.
She is talented at writing in a voice appropriate to the audience, editing, and interviewing. She is a crusader for clear, concise communications. To this, she has added sales training and experience with Rocky Mountain–a Canadian, high-end bicycle manufacturer– making her a skilled listener, negotiator, and advisor.
Now based in Vancouver, when she’s not at her laptop, she enjoys the BC outdoor lifestyle, and can often be found on local trails riding her mountain bike or exploring Vancouver’s many regional parks with her family.
Specialties
- Writing
- Communications
- Sales & Marketing
- Planning
- Editing
- Interviewing
Jordan Ray
Digital Marketing and Social Media Specialist
Jordan is a public affairs “jack of all trades” with over six years of experience in communications and politics in the public and private sector. Jordan has successfully and resourcefully managed digital communication campaigns of all sizes.
As the communications lead for the Ontario Liberal Party, he stewarded the Party’s brand while facilitating its recent Leadership Election. Jordan was the lead writer and graphic designer on all Party communications, including two successful by-elections and the 2020 Leadership Convention in Mississauga.
Jordan’s desire to make a difference drives his dedication to civic action. He has worked on political campaigns at all levels of government. He has run an MPP’s Queen’s Park office and worked at a national public affairs agency in Toronto, working for clients in the agriculture, manufacturing, financial, education and non-profit sectors.
He is Alberta-born and raised in British Columbia and holds a master’s degree from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and is a graduate of Queen’s University.
Specialties
- Digital Communications
- Social Media Strategy
- Content Creation
- Graphic Design
- Rapid Response