02 December 2025 09:45 - 10:15
Storytelling: The skill that compounds as everything else gets automated
Built for PMMs who know how to build a message but have not yet made storytelling the centrepiece of how they work. As automation makes content production faster and cheaper for everyone, the constraint shifts to judgment, knowing what to say, to whom, and how to make it land. Elliott Rayner makes the case that storytelling is not just a craft. It is a strategic advantage that gets more valuable the more everything else becomes a commodity. Whether you are building a board narrative, briefing a campaign, or convincing a product team to change course, the PMM who tells the right story at the right moment wins.
Key learnings:
- A framework for structuring stories that work across audiences, from senior stakeholders to sales teams
- How to identify the emotional hook that makes your narrative stick, not just land in the moment
- Why storytelling is becoming PMM's most defensible skill in an automated world, and how to build it deliberately