Lisa Cron
Story coach and author
Lisa Cron is a story coach and speaker who wrote Wired for Story and Story Genius. She helps writers and business leaders use story to move people.
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About Lisa Cron
Lisa Cron is a story coach, speaker and author. Besides Wired for Story, she has written Story Genius and Story or Die. Her TEDx talk, also called Wired for Story, opened the 2014 TEDx conference at Furman University. Her career has spanned several fields. She has worked in publishing at W.W. Norton and John Muir Publications, been a literary agent at the Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency, produced shows for Showtime and Court TV, and consulted on stories for Warner Brothers and the William Morris Agency. Since 2006 she has taught in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She has also served as a faculty member on the MFA program in Visual Narrative at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. As a coach, she works with writers, business leaders, nonprofits and educators.