The Story Workshop equips your leaders and teams with the practical storytelling tools to cut through complexity, build genuine connection, and move people to act — every time they communicate.
The Story Workshop
A good message delivered in a bad way becomes a bad message.
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20K+
STAGE, RADIO, & SCREEN CREDITS
20M+
TOTAL AUDIENCE REACHED
30+
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
90+
COUNTRIES & 16 LANGUAGES
OUR PHILOSOPHY
We are all meaning-making machines.
Data informs. Stories transform. When leaders share the right story, people lean in. When teams connect their work to a bigger narrative, they stay engaged. When organisations communicate through story, culture shifts faster.
“Stories do more than clarify — they bypass the critical security systems in our neural circuitry. Change the frame, change the game.”
Troy & Zara Love, Great Talk
At Great Talk, we combine three things that belong together but rarely meet in a boardroom: powerful storytelling, positive psychology, and good humour.
Storytelling brings the emotional resonance. Science-backed psychology ensures lasting impact. Humour keeps people present long enough to receive both.
Without one, it’s either too serious, too impersonal, or just entertainment. Together, these pillars are the engine behind every workshop we run — from intimate leadership teams to plenary audiences of 20,000.
THE FRAMEWORK
Three pillars. One powerful outcome.
Every Story Workshop is built on the Great Talk Heart–Smart–Fart framework — a three-part story system that is also a philosophy for a great working life.
01
Heart — Emotional Connection
We want to hear about your highs, lows, triumphs and losses. Vulnerability is the currency of connection. When you share from the heart, audiences lean in and trust follows.
02
Smart — Science & Credibility
Facts, figures, case studies and proof points. The data that backs your message. Smart grounds your story in reality so it isn’t just moving — it’s credible and repeatable.
03
Fart — Good Humour
Good humour is good business. As Edward de Bono noted, humour is by far the most significant function of the human brain. A team that can laugh together can learn together.
WHAT YOU GET
What participants walk away with.
Practical, immediately applicable tools — not concepts that evaporate by Monday morning. Great Talk make it tangible, applicable, and implementable the same week. That is the standard we hold ourselves to every time.
1
Your signature stories, identified
Pinpoint the key moments, successes and challenges that best express your purpose and achievements.
2
A repeatable story structure
Situation, complication, resolution — a clear framework that works in presentations, team meetings and client conversations alike.
3
Rapid rapport tools
The Connection Accelerator — six simple steps to build trust quickly with colleagues, stakeholders and clients.
4
Culture through story
Turn values and strategy into relatable, real-world narratives your people can share and own — not just quote from a wall.
5
Emotion + logic, balanced
Master the interplay of credibility and relatability so your message lands with both the head and the heart — and lasts.
6
Confidence under pressure
Techniques to manage performance nerves, think on your feet, and hold a room whether you are speaking to five or five thousand.
Workshop details
Live, interactive,
and built for your team.
Every session is tailored. We use your language, your challenges, and your real workplace scenarios — not generic exercises
Format
Live, online or in-person — highly interactive throughout
Duration
Customised to you. From 30mins to full year programs
Group size
Up to 12 per team session for deep work; plenary format for 5–5,000
Follow-up
Recorded replay and resource pack delivered post-session
PERFECT FOR
Who brings us in.
Leadership teams driving change
When strategy needs to travel further and faster than a slide deck or a memo can carry it.
Internal communications & culture teams
When you need your people to carry the story of what you do — and why it matters — into every conversation.
Client-facing & sales teams
When the difference between a yes and a no is whether your people can make someone feel something.
Enterprise capability & L&D professionals
When you need participants to translate strategy, data and expertise into clear narratives that people remember and act on.
Conference & event keynotes
When you want your event to leave people differently than it found them — with a session that is genuinely transformative, not just entertaining.
Project teams sharing wins and lessons
When the work deserves to be heard — and the team deserves to be recognised for what they achieved and learned along the way.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
True stories.
Before working with Troy and Zara, my delivery was off. I relied on the lectern and my subject matter was too serious for any audience to enjoy. Now I’m landing the laughs, injecting energy into my speech and most importantly relishing the opportunity to share my story. I would pay their fee ten times over — these guys really are that good.
Turia Pitt
NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, Motivational Speaker and Author
Working with Troy and Zara was brilliant, honest, funny, insightful, organised, intuitive and all class. A joy to work with.
Deborah Hutton
Media Personality
These sessions were life-changing for a number of our staff. Like a really good book or movie, you keep on thinking about its contents for days after it has finished.
General Manager
Sigma Healthcare
Troy and Zara’s collective experience, bags of industry best tips, tools and trades, and Zara’s incredibly insightful wit and intuition in how to bring out the absolute gold of her clients. Cannot recommend this incredible team enough.
LinkedIn Recommendation
Storytelling and speaker coaching client
Working with you has been an awesome experience. My speaking career has gone from strength to strength, my calendar is booked to capacity, and the audiences are loving it. The process helped clarify my message — making it more fun for me AND having more impact with my audience.
Brad Smith
CEO BRAAP, Telstra Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Look no further — Troy and Zara are the best closing keynote speakers ever. They recently closed our Learning and Development Festival and many of the audience cited them as their highlight for the whole three days. Zara is a magnetic human, and on stage this is felt ten times over.
Event Organiser
Learning and Development Festival
YOUR FACILITATORS
Troy & Zara Love.
Three decades of showing up on stages, screens, and in boardrooms — together.
Troy and Zara Love are the Directors of Great Talk and among Australia’s most experienced communication coaches and keynote speakers. With more than 20,000 combined stage, radio and television credits to a total audience of over 20 million, they bring hard-won performance craft into every workshop they run.
They have worked with Telstra, Palo Alto Networks, Bupa, NAB, Qantas, CommBank, Diageo, GSK, Coles, CSIRO, the Royal Australian Air Force, and hundreds of teams in between. Their children’s book, What is a Nuff?, embedded with 35 positive psychology tools, has been seen across 90 countries and 16 languages.
They are members of the International Positive Psychology Association, Professional Speakers Australia, the Australian Writers’ Guild, and the Institute for Learning and Performance Asia-Pacific.
- 20,000+ stage, radio and screen appearances
- 30+ years coaching speakers, leaders and teams
- Clients include Telstra, NAB, Qantas, Bupa, Coles, CommBank, GSK, CSIRO and the RAAF
- Keynote speakers at FAAA Congress, TEDx events and major corporate conferences
- Authors of What is a Nuff?— seen in 90+ countries, 16 languages
- Breakfast radio professionals with mastery of time-spent-listening and audience engagement
- Positive psychology, performance coaching and stand-up comedy practitioners
- Professional Speakers Australia members
- International Positive Psychology Association members
Troy & Zara Love.
Book The Story Workshop for your team and give your leaders a skill they will use every day — from the boardroom to the kitchen table.