Tech Leadership Tuesday. Technical Storytelling With Lena Reinhard and Priyanka VergadiaTech Leadership Tuesday. Technical Storytelling With Lena Reinhard and Priyanka Vergadia

Communicating as a tech leader is a balancing act: Stakeholders need your technical expertise, but complex architectural diagrams, dense datasets, and jargon-heavy explanations can overwhelm less tech-savvy audiences and senior executives. If you're a tech leader operating at the strategic level, you do need to understand how to translate technical detail into business impact and ROI, but you also need to be a compelling storyteller who can vividly illustrate pain points, business contexts, and tech trade-offs so stakeholders can make informed decisions. In this Tech Leadership Tuesday, Lena Reinhard sits down with Priyanka Vergadia, senior director at Microsoft and author of two books on visually teaching tech topics. Their discussion will provide practical advice on how to effectively narrate business value and present deep technical detail through simple stories that help others visualize options, risks, and opportunities. You'll also gain insight into the common communication antipatterns and pitfalls that often frustrate senior executives and needlessly delay critical decisions. Join us to learn how to harness the power of storytelling to become a more effective tech leader. What you'll learn and how you can apply it When and for whom to translate technical jargon and nuance into clear stories and engaging scenarios focused on business impact and ROI Practical techniques for creating simple stories that vividly illustrate technical pain points, necessary trade-offs, and potential opportunities The process for structuring a presentation or pitch to guide stakeholders toward making informed decisions based on their business priorities This recording of a live event is for you because... You want to be a more effective strategic communicator and leader. You struggle to communicate your technical expertise and insights to nontechnical audiences and want to make your knowledge more accessible. Recommended follow-up: Read Visualizing Generative AI (book) Read Storytelling with Data (book) Read Storytelling in Design (book) Read The Manager's Path (book).