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Unlocking Better Creative with Story-Driven Briefing: From Brief to Breakthrough

Context

The creative brief is the most important document in any creative workflow, and the most misunderstood. 

Too often, briefs become checklists of mandatories rather than tools that inspire great work.

The result? Misaligned teams, wasted rounds of revision, and creative output that falls flat.

An alternative

This masterclass introduces a storytelling-based approach to creative briefing that helps marketers, creative leads, and operations professionals write briefs that really move people to action, without relying on rigid templates.

This Masterclass

A 1-hour masterclass to equip attendees with a practical, story-driven framework for writing creative briefs that produce stronger, more aligned creative work.

• Draws on the proven StoryBrief™ approach.
• Participants are walked through how to translate marketing strategy into creative input using the principles of narrative, so that every brief tells a clear story.
• Aligns teams around who they are seeking to reach, why it matters, and what is needed for the work to deliver all that’s wanted.
• Includes a hands-on exercise designed to help attendees immediately apply the framework to a real brief.

Pricing

Fees in US Dollars: $149. Click here to register

Fees in Pound Sterling: £99 +VAT. Click here to register

Mary Czarnecki Introduces the Masterclass

Delivering:

• A reusable, story-driven briefing framework you can apply immediately. 
• How to identify and articulate the real problem your brief needs to solve.
• Techniques to move from template-filling to strategic storytelling in your briefs.
• A method for aligning creative teams around a clear, compelling direction, even under tight timelines.

For everyone involved in writing, reviewing, or receiving creative briefs, including brand marketers, creative operations professionals, in-house agency leads, project managers, and creative strategists.

Tutorial Leader

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Mary Czarnecki is an international keynote speaker, marketing strategist, and creator of the StoryBrief™

 Method, a story-driven framework that helps marketing and creative teams write briefs that actually inspire great work. As a Faculty Instructor at the Association of National Advertisers, she has delivered over 430 workshops to Fortune 500 teams. She brings a background in behavioral science and brand strategy to help organizations close the gap between what they intend to communicate and what their creative actually achieves. She earned her MBA and MEM from Yale University and her BA from Princeton University.