Ira Koretsky is a leading authority on business storytelling. As the
President & Chief Storyteller, Ira created a collaborative and proven The
Chief Storyteller ProgramT designed to accelerate relationship building
with your prospects, board, volunteers, staff, members, partners, and clients.

He helps you create "wow, tell me more" business stories--stories that
generate the results you want. Your story will improve prospecting success and increase revenue. The program includes workshops and services that help you create compelling elevator speeches, effective approaches to networking inside and outside your organization, presentations that close deals, and other sales-centered tools and materials.

The Chief Storyteller techniques enhance your natural communication abilities to be memorable, genuine, authentic, persuasive, and compelling so that you can deliver your business story confidently, every time, in any setting.

Ira is a professional speaker, creativity guy, idea-generator, and improvisational humorist. Using his 20+ years of experience, Ira created a unique approach that blends communication, relationships, humor, human behavior, sales, and marketing together to help you tell a results-driven story. He has energized thousands of participants with memorable dialogue and fun exercises while inspiring them to achieve a higher level of personal success with his passion-filled ideas.

Koretsky has told the business stories of Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and education institutions such as Charles Schwab, Warner Bros., Urban Land Institute, Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, Americans AllR, American Diabetes Association,
IntelliDyne, SmartCEO Magazine and Selling Power Magazine.

Ira speaks nationally for private client engagements and for annual conferences. Selected past speaking engagements include: Closing keynote for American Hospital Association's Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM), American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Great Ideas, National Women's Business Conference, Harvard Business School Alumni Chapter, International Coaches Federation (ICF), Association of Language Companies (ALC), Florida Festival and Events Association (FFEA), London School of Economics Alumni Chapter (LSE), Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

Selected titles from the more than 35 Chief Storyteller modules include:
"What Do You Do? 7 Steps To The Perfect Elevator Speech," "Be A Business Dating Expert: 6 Networking Steps To Increase Sales Success," "Close The Deal: 8 Steps To A Perfect Presentation," "Build, Build, Build: Use Improvisational Humor To Build Great Teams," "Good To Outstanding: Turn
Any Workshop Into An Interactive, Fun, And Memorable Experience," and "Design To Win: 9 Steps To A Perfect Proposal"

Ira began his career working as a US Army Officer in the Army Medical Department. He held a variety of positions as both a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a public affairs officer. Subsequently, Ira worked for three high technology firms both in the Washington, DC and San Francisco Areas. In various executive capacities, he managed marketing and marketing
communications, product management, new product release, service level agreements, and pricing organizations for Digex, Inc. (acquired by MCI, NASDAQ:MCIP), Aptegrity (acquired by Globix, AMEX:GEX), and XUMA.

He earned his MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and his BS from The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. He is a very active Maryland alum serving on several boards and committees for both the Smith School and the
University. He has been a mentor to Smith School students since 1999 and serves on the Smith School Mentor Committee. Ira has been performing improvisational comedy professionally since 1994 with Comedy Sportz ( www.national-comedy.com ). He also serves on several company advisory boards, committees, and is a community volunteer.