Publish boldly: From idea to draft in 90 minutes
Come ready to think clearly. Leave with something real and valuable.
Join a guided writing session designed for founders, builders, executives, and investors who want their ideas to travel further than a single week of events.
Instead of collecting LinkedIn requests, you’ll create something lasting: an article you can send to new connections, publish on your blog, pitch as an op-ed, or share 1:1 to spark deeper conversations.
During the session, you’ll:
Work through a focused writing exercise on a topic that matters to you
Use a clear, practical writing brief to move from idea → draft, fast
Leave with a strong first draft in hand, that you can use as a discussion prompt for the week ahead
Agenda
Intros (if you want)
Topic identification
Template introduction
Focused silence to write
Rapid peer review/critique
Read out loud if you want
Publication pathways
Past workshop reviews
5/5 - "Great workshop! People today have gotten used to writing with a device finishing their sentences. Good to be free of that!"
5/5 - "A wonderful and productive session"
5/5 - "This is hands-down the best workshop I've taken in San Francisco"
Your workshop lead
Ritika Strauss is the founder at The Writing and Thinking Lab, co-founder at Expansively, and co-founder at Beautiful Earth. She is an expert in writing, data storytelling, and first-principles thinking with a professional journey spanning startups, enterprises, nonprofits, and venture funds—to elevate organizations into positions of category leadership.
A pioneer in content marketing, she helped shape some of the earliest thinking in the field—writing books and guides referenced globally, teaching workshops, and running an agency that worked with some of the most visible startups, government innovation teams, and enterprise companies around the world.
Today, she focuses on some of humanity’s most urgent priorities: deploying AI with integrity, expanding funding access to R&D, accelerating the introduction of new energy sources to our built environment, protecting our web of life, and helping young people feel motivated to learn. Her work has been featured in or cited by The Next Web, UNESCO, Forbes, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and more.
Above all, she is a 'helper' personality who enjoys elevating others. She has coached hundreds of people into elevating their platforms as industry thought leaders and strives to be the editor that every aspiring great writer needs.
She is known for creating extremely welcoming and inclusive environments for collaboration and discussion.
Respect for Creative Work
This workshop is designed as a shared creative space. All materials, prompts, and frameworks are original and owned by Storyhackers Inc., a Canadian multinational publisher of business knowledge, technical curriculum, and technology-for-good tools.
You’re welcome to use what you create here for your own writing and thinking—but not to replicate or distribute the workshop structure, materials, or methods in other settings without prior written permission.
Please be mindful not to plagiarize others' ideas.
AI Policy
AI tools may be used to support your writing and develop your article. However, participants may not input, upload, or reproduce any workshop materials—including prompts, templates, or frameworks—into AI systems, nor use them to train, replicate, or generate derivative tools, products, or services.
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