Laurie Stewart

CEO Mindless Academy/ Senior Business Transformation Manager LEGO

“The Power of Storytelling in Business a key Tool to strengthen Your Mindset "

Thursday, December 17th, 10-11am Online via Zoom (see link below)

All students and staff @CommediaLivUni who wish to attend are warmly welcome! This is running as part of the MSc in Strategic Communication.

Synopsis of the talk:

Laurie will talk about storytelling and its power to transform ourselves and the world around us. She will reflect on her career and discuss business examples of storytelling from Lego. Finally, Laurie will tell us about her collaboration with the School of Arts to provide internships to University of Liverpool students via the Mindless Academy,. The talk will last approximately 40 minutes followed by a Q&A session.

Biography of the speaker:

Laurie Stewart is founder of Mindless, a brand committed to elevating consciousness through the art of storytelling. In partnership with universities worldwide, Mindless Academy offers a Digital Micro-Internship programme to provide emerging talent with the mindset, skills and experience they need for a digital future. The content produced as a result of this internship ends up at Mindless Mag; a storytelling platform dedicated to Fashion + Stuff That Matters. That aims to explore fashion's relationship with important social issues such as mental health, body image, feminism, sustainability and much more.

With over ten years' international experience at some of the world's leading consumer retail businesses, Laurie has a wealth of knowledge in product development, strategic sourcing, storytelling and digital transformation. She has recently relocated to Denmark to work as Senior Business Transformation Manager at LEGO where she collaborates with global leaders to transform people, processes, data and technology. She'll be spending her first Danish winter completing her first book titled: “All my Heroes Are Weirdos!”

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Strategic Communication Leaders Seminar Series - Laurie Stewart