Shawn Callahan

Melbourne Area, Australia Australia

Advisor, consultant, keynote speaker, teacher, coach - helping leaders influence and inspire with business stories.

Education

Through my company, Anecdote, I apply inspirational story methods to business. Consequently, I’ve helped some of world’s top companies to make their strategies really stick, including Fortune 500 firms in New York, London, Singapore and Australia. My specialty is helping analytically minded executives to find and tell the stories that engage the emotions of, and ultimately inspire action from, their employees and customers. I started out as a geographer and archaeologist before working in the field of information technology with the likes of Oracle and IBM. My story-work began in 1999 while I was at IBM, when I started applying complexity theory to business issues. I remember it as a ti