Leon Conrad is a Story Structure Consultant, Storyteller, and Writer, based in London, UK. His book, 'Story and Structure: A complete guide' won ten awards including the IPNE Nonfiction Book of the Year 2022 and was a finalist in The People's Book Prize. Leon is the Author of the Year Award recipient 2024 (Corporate LiveWire).
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He is Founder of The Unknown Storyteller Project (www.leonconrad.com), Founder and Lead Tutor at The Traditional Tutor (www.traditionaltutor.co.uk), Co-Founder and Lead Trainer at The Academy of Oratory (www.academyoforatory.com), and Affiliate at the Next Society Institute (www.nextsocietyinstitute.com). He teaches historic needlework technique and publishes through his embroidery business, Leon Conrad Designs (www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LeonConradDesigns).

Find out more at www.leonconrad.com.

Leon has run training courses in voice-centred communication skills for business for over 20 years. In 2007, he was poet-in-residence at the first Edinburgh Food Festival and was invited back to be poet-in-residence at the Pleasance Dome the following year. He has written and produced shows combining traditional storytelling and performance poetry which have been performed in Edinburgh and London, the most recent being "Under The Arabian Moon", a retelling of stories from The Arabian Nights at The Roundhouse in 2009.

He is fluent in five languages (English, French, Italian, Russian and Arabic) and trains in all five. He has published several articles in academic journals and trade magazines on the subject of effective communication, and been interviewed on BBC Breakfast television as an expert in the subject. In 2012, he co-hosted 'The Talking Shop', a series of radio shows with Giles Abbott, about different aspects of storytelling.

His approach to education stems from his passion for reviving the integrated approach to teaching the classical liberal arts, in particular the word-based Trivium of logic, grammar and rhetoric, as well as taking a combined historical and modern approach to the number-based Quadrivium. He offers tutoring in this approach to students and was a regular columnist for Flight Line Magazine for speakers of English as a second or other language in Russia and the CIS.

Leon studied voice with The British Voice Association and at Princeton University. He holds a Master's Degree in the History of Design and Material Culture of the Renaissance from the Royal College of Art, and a graduate diploma from the Trinity College of Music in London. He is a City and Guilds Adult and Further Education Qualified Trainer.

From 2013 onwards, Leon regularly explored the links between mathematics, language and logic with polymath Professor George Spencer-Brown, author of Laws of Form. (https://vimeo.com/359954407) Leon was Spencer-Brown's last student.

Leon has given a TEDx talk with marimba player Aristel Skribic about The Magic of Words (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYit3...)

Leon studied blackwork embroidery techniques with master embroiderer Jack Robinson, and has taught for various branches of The Embroiderers’ Guild (UK), The Historic Needlework Guild (USA), The Knitting and Stitching Shows and Madeira Embroidery Shows (UK), A Sampler Gathering (USA), Ackworth School Sampler Guild (UK), The V&A Museum, The National Maritime Museum, The National Trust and English Heritage. He was the first person in 400 years to successfully decode Plaited Braid Stitch.