Talk: Daily habits for strategic storytellers

The secret of gaining strategic influence isn’t what you say about your product, it’s the story around it.

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From mindful metaphors to hard-hitting headlines, Ben shared some of the habits you need to become an engaging, clear communicator, taken from his book Death by Screens, how to present high-stakes digital work and live to tell the tale.

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Ben Sauer thrives at the crossroads of creativity and technology. Once an actor, coder, and English lit student, he found his calling designing how humans interact with machines. At Clearleft, he snagged Apple’s App of the Year, shaped a groundbreaking science journal, and redesigned social networks. As voice AI took off, he trained teams worldwide (NASA included), earning 10/10 ratings for O’Reilly. His frameworks are used by Amazon, Google, and the BBC, and he led $100m AI projects in healthcare. A seasoned keynote speaker and author of Death By Screens, he’s now exploring how AI is reshaping communication—and what that means for all of us.