Linen Suit & Plastic Tie

This week, we are talking with Brent Dykes, author of Effective Data Storytelling. With over 15 years in analytics consulting at companies such as Omniture, Adobe, and Domo, Brent has worked with some of the most well-known brands in the world, and he is now leading Insights & Data Storytelling efforts at Blast Analytics. He tells us about the three pillars of data storytelling: when data story is...

What Animal Be Cutest if Shrunk Down To The Size Of Cat? This week, we are talking with Matt McGowan, Director and General Manager Canada at Snapchat Canada. Matt graduated from Oxford with his MBA in 2004, since then he has served on multiple boards, led multiple companies to multimillion-dollar exists, served as Head of Strategy at Google, and is now an early-stage venture partner at C2 Ventures...

What story can you tell about people when you combine psychology and data? This week, we are talking with Micah Lueck, Director of People Analytics at Qualcomm. Combining his expertise in psychology, mathematics, and statistics, Micah is leading his team to better understand the employee experience through the lens of data analytics. He tells us about People Analytics and its impact on how we tell...

We couldn't talk about storytelling without talking to someone with over a decade of experience at THE storytelling company, The Walt Disney Company. Our guest this week is Christopher Connolly. An entertainment marketing guru, Mr. Connolly has extensive experience in leading marketing efforts - at Hasbro early on, and at Disney more recently. At Disney, he led multi-million dollar marketing campa...

A Hero lies in YOU! To verify that, we've brought in a clinical psychologist who uses comic book superheroes to help people. This week's expert storyteller is Dr. Andrea Letamendi. She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, TEDx Speaker, Educator, Trainer, Mental Health Media Consultant, On-Camera Commentator, and Podcast Host. Dr. Letamendi is featured in Disney+'s Marvel 616, DC's FanDome, Batgirl...

A Principal Engineer at Lyft, co-inventor of Norton Antivirus, and a college programming Professor? This week, we talk to Carey Nachenberg. From his experience as both a Software Engineer and Computer Science Professor, Carey shares with us why Engineers - who we may think of as recipients of stories - should tell stories themselves, as well as why Storytelling alone is not sufficient for innovati...

How do you tell stories using AR (Augmented Reality)? This week's expert storyteller is Jeff Miller, Sr. Director of Global Creative Strategy at Snap Inc., former Director of Digital Strategy at Gatorade, and former Account Executive at Ogilvy & Mather. Jeff has spent years on top of the advertising industry by tracking technological changes and seeing how new advertising formats enable effective...

Thanksgivings are spent with families, so we are talking to Sophia. This is an episode of a different format. Through our conversation with our friend Sophia Kostas, we will go more in-depth on our stories and our learnings from running this podcast so far. Sophia is a cognitive psychologist, a UX designer, and one of our best friends since college.

A game-changing Career Coach who used to be an Actor & Writer? This week, our expert storyteller is Larry Braman. Larry is Director of Career Services at UCLA Anderson's M.S. in Business Analytics (MSBA) program. Started off his career as an actor, Larry later applied his creative expertise to the corporate world, using his skills and experience as an actor to help young professionals tell compell...

This week's expert storyteller is Wyatt Thompson. Wyatt is a Product Manager at Tesla, a former Product Manager at Dollar Shave Club, and Co-Founder of RomperJack (Top 1% of Shopify Stores). Wyatt used his non-technical background and Sociology degree to break into product management at one of the most technical companies in the world. In this episode, we learn how to tell a collaborative story, h...

This week's expert storyteller is Dr. Tara Prescott-Johnson, a writing professor, author, and fantasy expert. At UCLA, Dr. Prescott-Johnson integrates comics, graphic novels, television, and other unconventional media into her lesson plans. In this episode, we will learn how to craft our own stories and find the power within even the most mundane experiences. Dr. Prescott-Johnson is the editor of...

Linen Suit & Plastic Tie is a brand new podcast where we talk to expert unconventional storytellers about their unique life stories, and how storytelling plays a role in their careers, business, and life. Our goal is for us and you, our listeners, to learn from inspiring and surprising storytellers to become better communicators, better collaborators, and to create great things.

Welcome to Linen Suit & Plastic Tie!