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Karen Eber Media Features & Press Coverage
Karen Eber is a TED speaker, bestselling author of The Perfect Story, and the CEO and Chief Storyteller of Eber Leadership Group. Her writing and commentary on storytelling, leadership communication, and workplace culture have appeared in outlets including Forbes, Fast Company, Inc, Entrepreneur, CNBC, and NPR, and her TED Talk on the neuroscience of storytelling has been viewed by millions.
Below are the pieces she has written, followed by the media features and interviews where she has been quoted or profiled. Additional media appearances on prominent podcasts appear on the Podcast page
Articles Written by Karen Eber
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10 questions to ask in a job interview that will really expose a company’s culture
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Fast Company giving job candidates ten interview questions designed to reveal a company's real culture.
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5 Myths About Culture Leaders Need to Break to Move Forward
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Fast Company identifying five common misconceptions leaders hold about organizational culture, and how leaders can examining them.
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It's Time to Reimagine the Future of Work
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Fast Company on five ways leaders can rethink how work gets structured and communicated as workplace expectations shift.
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These are the conversations leaders should have before the end of the year
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Fast Company on the year-end conversations leaders should be having with their teams, and how framing those conversations as stories rather than performance reviews changes how they land.
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The Four-part Structure to Telling Great Stories
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Quartz laying out the four-part story structure she teaches leaders: context, conflict, outcome, and takeaway, and how using it turns a flat update into a story people remember.
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In Your Next Interview, Telling a Story Can Help You Stand Out
Karen Eber wrote this piece for All Business on how job candidates can use a well-told story, rather than a rehearsed list of qualifications, to stand out in an interview.
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This is Missing from Your Stories and Presentations
Karen Eber wrote this piece for USA Wire identifying the element most workplace stories and presentations leave out, and why leaving it out is what makes a story forgettable.
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7 Interview Questions That Will Reveal a Company’s Culture
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Built In, offering seven interview questions job seekers can ask to surface what a company's culture is actually like, beyond the answers hiring managers are trained to give.
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The Role of Storytelling in Relieving Ecoanxiety
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Thrive Global on how storytelling can help people process eco-anxiety and turn concern about climate change into shared understanding and action.
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How to Give a Heartfelt and Memorable Toast
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Southern Bride Magazine on how to structure a wedding toast so it lands emotionally instead of falling flat, applying her storytelling framework to a personal, non-business context.
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Make Waffles, Not Spaghetti
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Chief Learning Officer Magazine, using a waffles-versus-spaghetti metaphor to describe how to help develop people be able to navigate change.
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How ChatGPT Helps Project Managers Tell Stories
Karen Eber wrote this piece for the Project Management Institute on how project managers can use ChatGPT as a tool to help shape project updates into stories that stakeholders actually retain.
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Lead From The Back
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Thrive Global on the idea of how leadership isn’t always in the front of the room. Sometimes the true leadership moments comes from how you support others and signal value to a team.
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The Surfer Who Face-Planted: Lessons for Leadership Development
Karen Eber wrote this piece for Training Industry Magazine, using a surfing story as an entry point into a broader argument about treating failure as part of the leadership development process rather than something to avoid.
Media Features and Quotes
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Forget Trust Falls: The Simple New Way Strong Leaders Build Trust
Karen Eber is quoted in this Forbes piece by Tanya Dalton on building trust with a team through everyday practices, rather than one-off exercises like trust falls.
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Storytelling: The Leadership Tool You Probably Aren’t Using Enough
Karen Eber's TED Talk and her four-part story structure (context, conflict, outcome, takeaway) are cited throughout this Forbes Coaches Council piece by Peter Stewart on why leaders should build storytelling skills.
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Shape Your Workplace by the Stories You Tell
Karen Eber was quoted extensively in this Inc column by Debra Roberts on using storytelling to build workplace culture. Eber outlines three story types leaders should use with their teams: stories about conflict and miscommunication, stories about formative experiences, and stories about mistakes and lessons learned.
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Why storytelling may be the secret to success at work
Karen Eber is quoted and her book The Perfect Story is cited in this Fast Company piece by emotional intelligence expert Harvey Deutschendorf, on how storytelling engages emotion and builds trust in ways raw data alone does not.
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The tightrope CEOs are walking is getting more precarious
Karen Eber is quoted in this Business Insider piece on the increasingly difficult balancing act CEOs face between shareholders, employees, and public expectations.
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Navigating the Workplace as an Introvert
Karen Eber is quoted in this New York Post piece on strategies introverted employees can use to navigate workplace dynamics that tend to favor more outwardly extroverted communication styles.
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The Next Big Ideas Club must-read: The Perfect Story Book Bite
Next Big Idea Club selected The Perfect Story as a must-read pick and produced an audio and text "book bite" adaptation of Karen Eber's book for their readers.
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Introverts Who Use This Secret Weapon Can Be More Powerful Than Extroverts in the Workplace
Karen Eber is quoted in this Entrepreneur article on a specific communication strength introverted leaders can draw on to be as effective as, or more effective than, extroverted counterparts.
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Why Are Stories So Essential?
Karen Eber is quoted in this Thrive Global piece on why storytelling creates bonding between people and helps teams learn from one another's experiences.
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Gwinnett County Public Library Author Talk: The Perfect Story
Karen Eber provides a sneak peek into her book, The Perfect Story.
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Karen Eber, author of "The Perfect Story" shares with us how to tell the perfect story
Karen Eber appeared on Great Day Washington (WUSA9) discussing The Perfect Story and how to tell an effective story.
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The Conflict is Your Story
Karen Eber is quoted in this Daily Coach piece on how workplace conflict, reframed, often contains the most useful story a leader can tell.
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The Power of Storytelling and Leadership: In Conversation with Karen Eber
Karen Eber was interviewed for this Thrive Global feature on how storytelling shapes effective leadership.
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Q&A with Karen Eber
Karen Eber was interviewed by author-interviewer Deborah Kalb about The Perfect Story, discussing what led her to write the book and the ideas behind it.
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How to Tell a Story as Toast for Weddings and Graduations
Karen Eber appears in this television segment on how to structure a memorable toast for weddings and graduations.
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Can You Hear Me Now? Q&A with Karen Eber
Karen Eber was interviewed for this Authority Magazine Q&A on five strategies leaders unintentionally use that diminish others, and how to avoid them.
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Karen Eber: Stores that Bond Us
Karen Eber was interviewed for The Reading Lists on the stories that bond people together and what makes a story worth telling.
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Meet Karen Eber: CEO and Chief Storyteller of Eber Leadership Group
Shoutout Atlanta profiled Karen Eber as CEO and Chief Storyteller of Eber Leadership Group, covering her background and approach to storytelling in leadership.