Leon Conrad
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Leon Conrad

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Leon Conrad is a Story Structure Consultant, Storyteller, and Writer, based in London, UK. He is 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), Independent Researcher, and is Orator in Residence at the Next Society Institute (www.nextsocietyinstitute.com). As a specialist in historic needlework techniques he teaches and publishes through his embroidery business, Leon Conrad Designs (www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LeonConradDesigns). His book, 'Story and Structure: A complete guide' was the ​IPNE Book of the Year winner 2022; IPNE Informational Nonfiction Book Award winner 2022, Storytelling World Award winner 2022; Firebird Award winner; ​​NAA Gold Award winner; Readers' Choice Book Awards Bronze Award Winner; ​IAN Book of t​​he Year Award Finalist; ​​Honourable Mention in the South Carolina Book Festival Awards; and was shortlisted for The People's Book Prize. Votes open from October 2022 to April 2023 at https://peoplesbookprize.com/oct-2022/story-and-structure/. Find out more about Leon 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 can train 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. Since 2013, Leon has been exploring the links between mathematics, language and logic with polymath Professor George Spencer-Brown, author of Laws of Form. (https://vimeo.com/359954407) He has given a TEDx talk with marimba player Aristel Skribic about The Magic of Words (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYit3MYAoqM) 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.
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