BIO
Andrew Russell is the former VP of Storytelling with Edelman, the world’s largest PR company, where he applied his unique approach of Story as Strategy in many different ways that impacted culture, strategy, and business with a wide variety of companies and organizations. He most recently served as Director and Narrative Architect as part of Microsoft Studios where he created live and digital events viewed by thousands across the globe.
He has worked as facilitator, teacher, or coach with: Samsung, REI, Starbucks, Vulcan, AstraZeneca, Qualtrics, Taco Bell, Business of Fashion, Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente, BECU, International Federation of Accountants, Ballet Hispanico, Earth Day, KEXP, reThink Wood, Seattle Interactive, Fred Hutch, Washington State University, The Empathy Project, as well as extensive work with Microsoft.
Thanks to training thousands of participants, he’s fine-tuned a model of teaching, coaching, and facilitating that sits comfortably within the corporate and non-profit sector while also pushing boundaries so all participating can grow personally and professionally.
Whether he’s working one on one, leading a group of twenty in a day-long session with a co-teacher, or organizing an annual offsite for five hundred people, the approach is the same:
How can story bring us closer together so that we can feel more alive, connected, and productive?
"ANIMATED
NO ONE
LASER FOCUSED...
WORKS A ROOM LIKE
AND
ANDREW RUSSELL."
-The Seattle Times
Andrew is a storytelling consultant who works with individuals, non-profits, and corporations as a writer, teacher, facilitator, host, and coach.
Whether working on writing a speech, 1:1 coaching for a presentation, team off-sites, leadership transitions, new campaigns, or training programs, Andrew always creates a fun and safe environment for the development of trust and transformation.
For more information on his work as a writer, director, and creative producer, go here.
When we approach communications and leadership through human connection, story becomes strategy.
WITH HIS UNIQUE
BRAND OF
EMPATHY
PRECISION
AND
ANDREW CAN
- Help anyone on the planet become an expert storyteller
- Interview and host with gravity and delight
- Edit and shape story like a wizard
- Gain trust in a short period of time
- Make living more joyful thanks to storytelling and creativity
- Write, direct, and collaborate in multiple forms
- Teach storytelling workshops for groups large and small
Available
FOR
- Hosting
- Interviewing
- Workshop Facilitation
- Storytelling Training
- Leadership Coaching
- Public Speaking Prep
- Event Emcee
- Keynote Speeches
- Curriculum Development
- Speech Writing
- Event Direction
- Writing Commissions
"ANDREW IS A
YOU CAN'T TAKE
CAPTIVATING, INSPIRING,
HUMAN CONNECTION.
AND SOMEONE WHO
YOUR EYES OFF HIM."
intrinsically UNDERSTANDS
THE POWER OF
- Quinn Fegan, Emmy-winning Casting Director
of Alone and Queer Eye
FORCE.
SPEAKING
Andrew loves thinking and speaking on a range of topics.
In the past he's focused on the bio-psycho-social components of storytelling, the complexities of mental health, the relationship between the external world and how it shapes who we are on the inside, the influences of social media for good and bad, technology, creativity, and community,
TEDx Seattle, 2016
Andrew is a dynamic speaker and conversationalist, with a range of creative and life experiences from which to pull. Having attended Carnegie Mellon as an actor, written and directed new work, run a theatre company, directed documentary films, served as VP of Storytelling with the world's largest PR company, and brought major global events to life as Director and Narrative Architect for Microsoft Studios, Andrew is adept at creating short and long-form speeches that entertain and enlighten an audience in a wide variety of sectors.
Microsoft Storytelling Summit, 2023
Dragon Baby, American Repertory Theatre, 2019
"ANDREW'S WORK
IMMERSIVE,
THREE WORDS:
CHALLENGING,
LIFE CHANGING."
- Steve Clayton, Microsoft Communications Strategy
IN
AND
