I recently spoke about the power of storytelling at the annual ThinkAbout in Philadelphia.
I did a slide presentation on the people I met at the Rocky Steps while writing my book, Rocky Stories. I emphasized how these steps have become a place where people from all over the world come to celebrate their dreams, and how we pursued a dream and an idea ourselves when no publisher believed in our idea. Here’s what ThinkAbout founder and organizer, Jim Gilmore, www.strategichorizons.com, had to say about my presentation:

“I first met Michael Vitez early one morning over breakfast in Center City Philadelphia. I immediately liked him and very quickly found myself captivated by his stories and his storytelling. As a result, we hired Michael to speak at our annual thinkAbout event in Philadelphia in 2009. He wowed our participants. What really amazed me was how Michael managed to create the same kind of restaurant-booth intimacy and rapport with a larger audience that he had established with me some months earlier one-on-one. He models the kind of memory-making skills that we encourage all experience-stagers to cultivate.”