Sip and Learn: The Science of Storytelling

​How to Tell Stories People Remember ?

​Be honest: you've sat through a presentation so bad you started planning your grocery list. The strange part is that the person up there was probably brilliant. Smart people give terrible talks all the time, but why?

​This is a night about the science of speaking, and how a good story quietly fixes it.

​Your guide: a McGill psychologist who went from crippling social anxiety to winning public-speaking competitions & lecturing 800-student classes by the age of 23 and now trains startup founders to pitch investors.

​He'll take you from NASA's deadliest PowerPoint slide to the formula behind every billion-dollar Disney movie, and reveal what makes stories told by the best public speakers different.