In this masterclass of HVB season 2 we brought in a master story teller in Kevin Allison. The biggest thing is to get a person to understand, don't just summarize, don't just walk us through a Wikipedia like where you're just giving us a broad overview. And you're explaining; it’s important to remember sensory details that will help us see almost like movie scenes, what was happening between people. That is what brings the story alive. So that's a good case right there where the bones of the story were incredible. Like that's just on paper and an incredible overview of a story, but it's not going to work unless you can fill in all those sensory details that bring it alive and make it emotional for us.

Storytelling is a soft skill that offers the ability to contextualize cybersecurity in a manner that any organization can understand to allow their business to stay safe.

Key Takeaways:

0:00 Previously on the show

2:37 Kevin introduction

3:20 Episode begins

3:39 Where Kevin is today

7:58 Kevin’s origin story

12:04 Cybersecurity is performing

17:08 Storytelling for business

21:00 Engineering a story

26:12 Authentic storytelling

34:54 Speaking isn’t perfect

41:02 Where to find Kevin

Hacker Valley Blue S2 Episode 7 - Kevin Allison