Meet Dan Schifrin

Moving Things Forward

Dan Schifrin, founder of StoryForward, consults with organizations and companies around the world in the areas of dialogue, creativity, narrative design, and storytelling. Integrating the best communications and creativity tools from business, science, and the arts, he helps teams and leaders solve difficult problems for which clarity and collaboration are paramount.

For Stanford University’s School of Continuing Studies, Dan teaches the courses “Think on Your Feet: The Improviser’s Guide to Business and Communications” and “Speakeasy: The Pleasure of Writing Good Dialogue.” He was previously a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Jewish Studies, and has also taught in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley and the creative writing program at San Francisco State.

Dan is the co-host of the podcast “Art & Other People,” and an award-winning short story writer and playwright. For more on his artistic practice, including his mentorship and coaching of writers and other artists, visit danschifrin.com.

He frequently facilitates workshops with his sister Debra Schifrin, a lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, with whom he also co-teaches the Stanford class “Think on Your Feet.”