Podcast appearances and mentions of Mary J Cronin

Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways you can elevate your thought leadership. It can create an emotional connection, convey the need for change, or provide a vision of the future. In this episode, we collect advice from our experts on the various ways a thought leader can utilize the storytelling skill to elevate their content. Adam Zuckerman is Product Leader, Employee Engagement Software at Willis Towers Watson. Adam shares how his personal approach of sharing experiences in storytelling can help connect the research and data you provide with your audience in meaningful ways. Mary Cronin is a Research Professor at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. She teaches about entrepreneurship, and explains to us how storytelling is a vital component of the success of both thought leaders and startups. At the time of publication, Michelle Mellon was the Thought Leadership Director of SalientMG. She is also a published fiction author.  Michelle takes her experience writing stories and applies those same principles to writing thought leadership explaining how the fundamentals of storytelling need to be followed, as well as how they can be broken to create engaging narratives. Our final guest is Christopher Brace, Adjunct Professor of Marketing at MICA. Christopher helps us understand how storytelling can be used in marketing to build brands. He explains how, by employing a listening ear, you can discover the emotional territories of your audience that will help you know what resonates most with them.   Three Key Takeaways: * Storytelling is a component of the success of entrepreneurs and thought leaders; yet storytelling is often neglected. * Don't be afraid to provide predictions for the future in your thought leadership.  Your speculation doesn't have to be 100% right it just has to provide a glimpse of what could be around the corner. * When starting a narrative look at the questions of “What if” but ensure the basic elements of storytelling are not forgotten.

“I realized that we as a society have lost some of this innate affinity for storytelling. That it's not as natural in the digital age for families to gather around to listen to stories as it was maybe 100 or 50 years ago. It's something that's not happening in so many families And yet there are so many reasons to support it and encourage it.” - Mary J. Cronin Mary J. Cronin, Ph.D.,an advisor for Write the Family, an intergenerational family storytelling program affiliated with Write the World. She is a Research Professor at Boston College School of Management, and the President of 4Q Catalyst, a business strategy consulting firm. She serves as director of the Boston Authors Club, the Encore Boston Network, and the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs, and has authored 12 books on managing digital innovation and social impact. In this episode of The School for Humanity, I speak with Mary about her lifelong aspirations to be a writer, writing and editing twelve books, her work as a research professor, and the importance of stories in family legacy.  Let's dive in! Website: https://writetheworldworkshops.com/write-the-family/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/write_the_world/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/writetheworlddotcom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryjcronin/

“I realized that we as a society have lost some of this innate affinity for storytelling. That it's not as natural in the digital age for families to gather around to listen to stories as it was maybe 100 or 50 years ago. It's something that's not happening in so many families And yet there are so many reasons to support it and encourage it.” - Mary J. Cronin Mary J. Cronin, Ph.D.,an advisor for Write the Family, an intergenerational family storytelling program affiliated with Write the World. She is a Research Professor at Boston College School of Management, and the President of 4Q Catalyst, a business strategy consulting firm. She serves as director of the Boston Authors Club, the Encore Boston Network, and the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs, and has authored 12 books on managing digital innovation and social impact. In this episode of The School for Humanity, I speak with Mary about her lifelong aspirations to be a writer, writing and editing twelve books, her work as a research professor, and the importance of stories in family legacy.  Let's dive in! Website: https://writetheworldworkshops.com/write-the-family/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/write_the_world/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/writetheworlddotcom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryjcronin/

Telling stories is one of the most powerful means that people have to influence, teach, and inspire others. Young people today can benefit greatly from knowing the stories of their older family members. Dr. Terri talks to Dr. Mary Cronin, business strategist, author, and Boston College School of Management professor. Dr. Cronin will discuss how engaging family members in telling stories can strengthen connections across generations and build resilience in young people.

Everyone has a story but many of us choose to keep them in the quiet crevices of our memory bank. But what if you were inspired to share your story beyond your own cognitive archive and actually put pen to paper? What would your story or even stories be about? What would they say about you and the life you’ve lived? What messages might they hold for your loved ones or even the greater world, both today and for future generations to come?In this episode of Aging GreatFULLy, we welcome special guest, Dr. Mary J. Cronin, an advisor for Write the Family, an intergenerational family storytelling program affiliated with Write the World for a powerful conversation on the potential capacity of sharing our untold stories. Be prepared to be inspired to begin your own storytelling journey or even write a memoir or micro-memoir, as Dr. Cronin addresses how engaging family members in telling stories can strengthen connections across generations, reassure younger family members when they hear how elders coped with disappointments and survived setbacks, create a strong and resilient sense of “intergenerational self” in young people, promote intergenerational communication and relationship building and more. We examine how something as simple as your story evokes memories and has the potential to bind generations together, promote healing, and even provide a sense of personal growth and newfound harmony and meaning-making. Dr. Cronin is a Research Professor at Boston College of Management, and the President of 4Q Catalyst, a business strategy consulting firm. She serves as director of the Boston Authors Club, the Encore Boston Network, and the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs, and has authored 12 books on managing digital innovation and social impact. Combining research from Emory University, along with her family storytelling expertise, Dr. Mary Cronin shares out how rebuilding resilience and self-confidence comes down to the often-over-looked tradition of sharing stories of elders – from both good times and bad. In the end, listeners will be moved to begin their own storytelling adventure of leaving a written legacy and begin the exciting journey of The Stories We Tell. Dr. Cronin invites listeners to connect and join her Write the Family workshops by visiting www.writetheworld.com where anyone can experience the profound liberation and joy of storytelling, especially during these times of social isolation. This is a must-listen Aging GreatFULLy power-hour of enlightYOUment from beginning to end! Thank you, amazing Aging Rebels, for tuning into the show! If you enjoy this episode, we appreciate your positive show reviews and please share it with your friends and family! We are proud to be The Listener’s Show and are dedicated to bringing you guests and topics that enhance your living and growing older journey in positive ways. Remember, YOU ROCK and you Role Model! To connect, share, subscribe, download and find more ways to listen, including Amazon Audible, Alexa and Amazon Music, visit our official host page at www.CTRNetwork.com/holleykelley or www.HolleyKelley.com.