Influence is Built, Not Assigned
Titles get you a seat at the table. Persuasion keeps projects moving forward. We give your organization the practical tools to turn strategy into action.
From evidence-based professional development to thoughtful strategic plans and nuanced communications, book your complimentary strategy call today.
TRAINING
Our custom professional development programs are tailored to suit your organization’s needs. Some of our most popular training sessions:
We offer a range of training services.Crisis Plans
Are you prepared for a crisis to hit your organization? In this one-day bootcamp, we take you through media training, develop custom crisis messages, and go through practice sessions for your spokespeople. Our participants leave with practical tools and critical insights into their crisis communications plans. Need help developing a full crisis plan? Ask us how we can help.
The Two Page Communications Plan
Transform your communications approach from reactive to proactive by learning and implementing a thoughtful communications planning process that can be used for every project from a quick-turnaround social campaign to the multi-year rollout of a signature project.
Storytelling for Persuasive Presentations
Many organizations run on slide decks. A far cry from slick TED Talk presentations, these decks have to be text-heavy decision documents and be persuasive and compelling. We help your team develop persuasive presentations based on the principles of storytelling.
Our interactive workshops combine research-backed methods with hands-on practice, covering narrative development, message creation, presentation skills, and communication techniques. Participants work on real presentations learning to transform complex information into persuasive, story-driven formats that inform and influence audiences.
Presentations & Public Speaking
We empower speakers to showcase expertise and more deeply connect with audiences through engaging workshops that develop presentation skills and best practices, storytelling techniques and evidence-based audience engagement strategies.
These workshops cover presentation planning and delivery, message development, narrative building, and confidence-boosting techniques for in-person and online settings. Through foundational theory, hands-on practice sessions and personalized feedback, participants gain the tools to deliver compelling presentations while building on their authentic strengths.
Training that Sticks
Turn persuasive communications into an enduring habit.
Designed for organizations seeking an investment in lasting capability, our multi-session programs space evidence-based curriculum over 10 weeks so participants can integrate skills into their daily work. From foundational audience mapping to final on-camera capstones, this isn't just a workshop—it's an organizational evolution.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
We hep you produce strategies that are practical and actionable.Our team of seasoned executives can help you design a process, facilitate conversations and write a strategy.
Whether it’s a strategic plan, communications strategy, narrative development or team audits, we can help by asking the right questions and providing clear, actionable plans.
S&B’s expertise is in training, strategic planning and qualitative research which all revolve around asking good questions, really listening to the answers and telling better stories. It’s about cutting through the noise to find the real insights, ideas and motivations lying beneath the surface.
Whether you need a full team, a fractional expert, or a consultant ready to step in, we can help.
RESEARCH
If you’ve got a communications project or an organizational goal that you’re grappling with, we help you see what’s hidden in plain sight.We start by going deep into the data, whether that means interviews with your customers, employees or collaborators; or by digging into your processes and outputs, we start by looking and listening.
Using ethnographic research strategies, a coach approach and other data-driven and design thinking techniques, we can uncover behaviours and motivators unknowable by other data collection methods. We put these findings in context to develop or refine a strategy that is not a template from somewhere else, but truly based on the needs of your organization.