Afdhel Aziz
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Storytelling as a Leadership Operating System: Closing the Trust Gap
For C-Suite & Senior Leaders
As AI, restructuring, and constant disruption accelerate change, many organizations face a growing trust gap: people understand what leaders are doing but no longer believe why. In this session, Afdhel Aziz shows senior leaders how storytelling becomes the system that turns strategy into belief. By shaping narrative direction, framing tradeoffs transparently, and making intent visible, leaders restore trust and coherence in moments of uncertainty—because if leaders don’t shape the story, someone else will.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn how to tell your inspiring leadership story of ‘Self, Us and Now’.
- Learn how to understand your unique ‘Gifts, Passions and Superpowers’ to craft your personal leadership narrative.
- Learn the ‘Strategy to Story’ methodology for turning business objectives into emotionally resonant, purpose-led narratives.
Perfect for: CEO and executive leadership retreats, board offsites, leadership and strategy conferences
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Books by Afdhel Aziz
“Good Is the New Cool Guide to Meaningful Marketing: How Brands Can Win with Conscious Consumers” (2025)
Good Is the New Cool Guide to Meaningful Marketing: How Brands Can Win with Conscious Consumers
“Good is the New Cool Guide to Conscious Business: How Companies Can Drive Growth Through Positive Impact” (2025)
Good is the New Cool Guide to Conscious Business: How Companies Can Drive Growth Through Positive Impact
“Good Is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose: Designing a Meaningful and Prosperous Career” (2024)
At a time when employee engagement has never been lower, the Good Is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose: Designing a Meaningful and Prosperous Career helps employees bring their full selves to work by helping them discover and use their personal Purpose to fuel their careers. This can lead to higher levels of physical, emotional, and mental health, as well as huge benefits to organizations in the form of higher levels of engagement, innovation, recruitment, and retention. This book explores the ground-breaking GPS to Purpose framework for finding Personal Purpose, helping readers pinpoint their Gifts, Passions, and how they can be of Service to others, and in the process drive business growth through solving social and environmental problems. With ideas applied at Fortune 500 companies like Adidas, PepsiCo, Microsoft, and others, this book discusses topics including: Explaining what Personal Purpose is in a clear and accessible way Unpacking the many mental, physical, and financial benefits of finding Purpose How to unleash your inner ‘Intrapreneur’ at work How to write an inspiring Living Vision for your life―and your work The Good Is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all employees seeking to design a career that is both meaningful and successful―and help them drive growth in an entrepreneurial way through solving social and environmental problems.
“Good Is The New Cool: The Principles Of Purpose” (2021)
It's time to reboot capitalism. And purpose is the source code." Purpose is the buzzword of the moment, with socially conscious consumers, activist employees, and impact investors fueling the cultural revolution around business as a force for good. But what is Purpose? How do companies Discover, Define, Design and Deploy it? How can older companies reverse-engineer it into their DNA in an authentic and meaningful way? How do you measure the ROI of Purpose? And how can leaders harness its power to create compelling business models and product innovations that drive both financial success and social impact? In this inspiring and insightful book, Afdhel Aziz and Bobby Jones, from leading purpose consultancy Conspiracy of Love, deliver a masterclass on the subject. Their inspiring stories of the women and men on the purpose revolution's front lines show the immense desire among so many business leaders to do meaningful work with compassion and empathy.
“Good Is the New Cool: Market Like You Give a Damn” (2016)
Marketing has an image problem. Media-savvy millennials, and their younger Gen Z counterparts, no longer trust advertising, and they demand increased social responsibility from their brands—while still insisting on cutting-edge products with on-trend design. As always, brands need to be cool—but now they need to be good, too. It’s a tall order, and with new technology empowering consumers to bypass advertisements altogether, it won’t be long before the old, advertising-based marketing model goes the way of the major label.
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