Sue Hollingsworth

Sue Hollingsworth completed an MBA and was a Business Development Director, mostly for U.S. software companies. There she first encountered structured stories as a qualified Dale Carnegie Coach and began using stories extensively in her leadership and coaching work. The answers to why some people were better storytellers than others began to become a little clearer. When she attended her first storytelling festival in 1994, she experienced a profound awakening to the power of story to create meaning, connection, and community in our lives, and her life was changed forever. After leaving the business world, she trained as a storyteller at Emerson College in England and co-founded the International School of Storytelling. She has been working with stories and storytelling ever since. In 2016, Sue decided to return to the passion of her traveling days and the joys and challenges of telling and working with personal, true-life stories. She has refocused her work on training, coaching, mentoring, and facilitating people and processes around true-life and biographical storytelling, as well as fostering and supporting the development of storytelling communities around the world to further this work. The Centre for Biographical Storytelling was launched in 2017 and is currently the core of her storytelling work.