Storytelling Coaching

Gail Thomas is a superb teacher and storyteller! With patience, humor and clear instruction, Gail has helped me to find my voice, identify themes and finally craft powerful stories that are meaningful to me and my audience. As a beginner, I could not imagine a better experience in our small storytelling classes, where I have felt safe to take risks and receive feedback from Gail and my classmates. It has been a gift to work with Gail.

Gail is great! She was my first storytelling instructor and I loved her so much that I continued learning with her. She has a very pedagogical approach that helps you to seamlessly acquire the basics of storytelling. Gail really creates a welcoming atmosphere that helps students to leave any shyness behind and put their story out there for the world to listen.

The Story Studio was an outstanding partner to us in late 2019. We reached out to them to help us with a storytelling night wherein 10 founders would tell a story about failure in their lives as entrepreneurs. Gail worked with each founder to craft, hone and practice their story. It was a phenomenal event that inspired everyone who attended.

Thank you for everything, Gail!! All of the founders you worked with said such wonderful things about you :). Looking forward to staying in touch. Your work is so meaningful and inspiring!

Gail Thomas is an instinctive and practiced story genius. She can help coax a brilliant story out of anyone. She is a teacher, story coach, and story wizard. She has a brilliant understanding of story structure. But more importantly, she has the uncanny ability to help draw out stories from students or clients that are authentic, vulnerable, relevant, and relatable.  I am a better teacher, storyteller, and person after studying with Gail.

To help prepare my opening statement for an upcoming trial, I worked with Gail as a storytelling coach. We had a lovely session. Gail listened very carefully to every word and every single suggestion was amazing. Her insight was invaluable.

My team gives GAIL a big hand of applause – they truly appreciated her teaching skills and her ability to create a warm and inviting place to learn.  It’s been a great journey and we are excited to take these new tools into our work – to better serve our communities – THANK YOU GAIL!!!!!!  You and your organizations would be will served to partner with her. –

Gail’s stories are always incredible. She truly has mastered the ability of taking the most difficult moments and finding their beauty.

Dear Gail, I meant to give you a hug when we parted tonight but didn’t have a chance. Your class means SO much to me. I lack structure, details, and self-confidence and you give me all and much more. I am still distances away from where I want to be, but you are pointing me to the right path I am looking forward to going down even after the classes end and even all by myself. It feels like a healer and a second chance, and you are so kind—I can’t thank you enough.

Gail, thank you for helping us gain more confidence by tapping into our vulnerability. I loved your class and it was a great use of my weekend.

I consulted with Gail to develop stories for business. She is a wonderful teacher. She is very fun, personable and able to get the best from every person. Her knowledge and expertise in storytelling, branding and strategic communication was a great value for me. I didn’t have any idea on how to create a story (because I’m very analytical and straight to the point). But, then thanks to Gail, I was able to create four new stories – starting from scratch.

This class was fun, educational, and entertaining! Gail brings years of experience to the class in a safe and insightful way. The storytelling tools given to us were helpful and her feedback was spot-on, up-beat and positive. You can tell that teaching and storytelling are a real passion for Gail! She is an awesome instructor!

Gail Thomas is a masterful teacher. She is smart, sensitive, open-minded and inspiring. I learned more in two days with Gail that I have in entire semesters. Highly recommend it. If you want to become a better storyteller, do yourself a favor and put yourself in her able hands. She will give you the tools and the courage you need.

Gail has been an invaluable sounding board for me! From generating ideas, to editing and honing my stories, she is my go-to coach.

Gail helps her students help themselves. Her storytelling intuitions are incredible. The environment she creates is empathetic and supportive. She helps everyone refine and amplify their own voice.

I brought Gail in to serve as story coach, writer/editor and day-to-day manager of an internal UX storytelling initiative. Gail’s encouraging attitude, strong interpersonal skills and professionalism had a lasting impact by inspiring my colleagues to write about the value of what they do, and gave them confidence to do more writing and broaden their storytelling efforts through applying to speak at conferences.