Past Event
Friday, July 25 2025
9:30 am–2:30 pm
Storytelling for Designers
How to Share Your Work with Clarity & Conviction
Friday, July 25 2025
9:30 am–2:30 pm
Storytelling for Designers
How to Share Your Work with Clarity & Conviction
Every designer has a story—but sharing effectively is a skill.
In this special event—availably exclusively to those who’ve attended a previous Ultraspeaking workshop—we will focus on the core elements of storytelling: structure, emotional arc, and clarity. You will learn to move beyond facts and tasks to shape stories that resonate, whether you share process, purpose, or perspective.
To start off the day, we’ll revisit a few core Ultraspeaking principles to re-ground you in the mindset and tools you’ve already begun to develop. From there, we’ll shift into the heart of the session—where you’ll stretch your skills and explore new ways to share your work with impact:
Attendee Takeaways
- A deeper understanding of storytelling structure
Learn how to organize your thoughts with a clear beginning, middle, and end that holds attention and delivers impact. - Techniques for creating emotional arcs in your narrative
Discover how to shape stories that go beyond tasks and timelines. Stories that resonate emotionally and stay memorable. - Tools to explain your design work with clarity and confidence
Gain strategies for walking through your process in ways that are compelling and easy to follow, especially for non-designers. - Real-world storytelling strategies for design scenarios
Practice applying storytelling in project walk-throughs, client meetings, and stakeholder presentations. - Pitching techniques that build trust and buy-in
Learn how to craft pitches that are not just informative, but persuasive, anchored in purpose and vision. - Refreshed knowledge of Ultraspeaking principles
Revisit and strengthen the mindset and techniques introduced in earlier Ultraspeaking sessions. - A personalized approach to speaking authentically
Develop your own storytelling voice to share your work in a way that feels true to you and your values. - Access to past workshop recordings for added preparation
Get up to speed with foundational content through video access when you register. Catch up before the session begins! - A ready-to-use template letter to request employer funding
Click here to view a polished, professional letter template you can customize to ask your boss to cover the cost of your attendance.
Work in Progress Event Series
This event is part of the Work in Progress event series. These events are focused on the creative process, personal development and professional development. They aim to give a peek behind the curtain and expose failure as a valuable experience.
Schedule
- 9:30 am Check in & Workshop beigins
- 2:30 pm Workshop ends
Tickets
- Non-members $250.00
- AIGA Members $200.00
Facilitator
Aman Chopra
Aman is a New York City-based coach with Ultraspeaking, helping people tap into their most authentic, fully expressed selves and navigate high-pressure situations with confidence—especially when preparation isn’t an option. Beyond coaching, he’s a nationally touring stand-up comedian and the host of a leading public health podcast. Whether on stage, behind the mic, or working with clients, Aman brings a dynamic mix of insight, spontaneity, and humor to every interaction.
Agenda
Please note this agenda is to provide a general direction. It might shift depending on the needs to the group.
9:15 AM
Doors open for check-in and settling in
9:30 – 10:30 AM
Part 1: Refreshing Ultraspeaking Principles
Practice exercises to reactivate key speaking principles and tools introduced in previous workshops (you will have access to these when you register), with an emphasis on accessing confidence.
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Part 2: How to Apply Storytelling to Your Work
Apply storytelling techniques to real-world design scenarios to share your work with impact and authenticity.
12:00 – 12:45 PM
Lunch Break
12:45 – 2:15 PM
Part 3: How to Pitch Your Ideas with Clarity and Conviction
Learn to pitch your ideas with focus and energy by framing them around a clear takeaway that drives buy-in.
2:15 – 2:30 PM
Final Q+A / Wrap-up
About Ultraspeaking
In 2017, Tristan de Montebello stood in front of 3,000 people on the final stage of the World Championship of public speaking.
Despite starting with zero experience in public speaking, Tristan became the fastest competitor in history to reach the finals in seven months.Afterwards, Tristan de Montebello and his coach Michael Gendler co-founded Ultraspeaking.
They went on to coach thousands of students, ranging from professional keynote speakers to people suffering from crippling anxiety. They found out why most efforts to improve public speaking fail: you have to learn to enjoy speaking before you can get better at it. It’s just like swimming. If you don’t learn how to float before you try to swim across the pool, you’ll flail around, exerting needless energy.
Through thousands of hours of coaching, they developed and refined a fun and gamified coaching methodology that produces rapid results. While many programs focus too much on the symptoms of nervousness, their approach tackles the underlying root problems to unlock a fundamentally different relationship to speaking.
Today, Ultraspeaking is a global community made up of thousands of individuals passionate about learning the skills to live a fully-expressed life.