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Storytelling training built for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry

Retail buyers see dozens of CPG presentations a week. Help your teams be the one they remember.

Equip Your CPG team

The communication challenges facing every CPG organization

CPG companies operate in one of the most communication-intensive environments in business. Retailers are making decisions faster than ever, expecting their partners to show up with shopper-centric insights, clear recommendations, and stories that justify shelf space. Internally, cross-functional teams — including category leadership, sales, marketing, and insights — all contribute to the messages that reach those retailers. But when everyone is moving fast and working from different approaches, clarity breaks down. The result is CPG presentations that don’t land, rework that eats up time, and data dumping that overwhelms instead of persuades. For organizations competing for retailer attention every day, the cost of poor communication compounds quickly.

How TPC strengthens CPG presentations

CPG teams need to communicate critical materials seamlessly, from macro trends and shopper insights to tactical recommendations, both internally and with retail partners. When multiple teams contribute to the messages that reach retailers, inconsistency is inevitable. A shared storytelling framework becomes the true north, aligning teams around a common way to structure insights, build recommendations, and communicate with impact.

Retailers are busier than ever, meeting with suppliers all day, every day. The organizations that stand out show up with a clear story, a sharp point of view, and data that makes a recommendation easy to act on. TPC equips CPG teams with the storytelling skills to do exactly that, helping them show up as strategic, consultative partners.

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Our partnership with the Category Management Association (CMA)

TPC is proud to be an official member of the Category Management Association (CMA), the leading authority in category management and shopper insights. We’re a featured presenter at their annual conference, delivering top-rated storytelling sessions to industry experts at every level. Our ongoing content partnership reflects a shared commitment to CPG excellence and to helping teams show up as the strategic partners retailers want to work with.

I’ve seen so many powerful ideas get lost behind a spaghetti pile of data, decks, and emails.”

– Customer, Global Consumer Goods Company

Find the right solution for your CPG organization

From sales decks and category reviews to business updates and joint business plans, our training gives CPG teams the storytelling skills to communicate with clarity and impact at every level.

For Organizations Culture change starts here

Storytelling Learning Journey


The Complete Picture: Our three-part practitioner training takes teams through the full arc of business storytelling, from organizing ideas into audience-centric narratives, to bringing that story to life visually, to turning data into compelling insights. Each workshop flows from one to the next, with skills, tools, and coaching that build upon each other and create lasting behavior change.

Ideal for: Teams and organizations ready to build a shared storytelling language and culture

Learning Outcomes

  • Story Strategy: Organize your ideas and data into a meaningful narrative
  • Visual Strategy: Bring your story to life with clear, intentional visuals 
  • Data Strategy: Turn facts and figures into easy-to-scan data visualizations 
For Organizations Story strategy

Crafting Strategic Visual Stories


The Foundation: Give your team a proven framework for structuring narratives that engage, persuade, and stick. They’ll gain practical skills, increased confidence, and a clear action plan for applying business storytelling to their everyday communications.

Ideal for: Teams who need to transform ideas and data into compelling, audience-centric stories that persuade and drive action

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply a simple, repeatable storytelling framework to organize ideas and data strategically 
  • Craft compelling BIG Ideas that prioritize audience needs over presenter-focused content 
  • Flex stories to adapt to common scenarios: executives with limited time, high-stakes emails, strict slide constraints 
For Organizations Visual strategy

Influencing with Visuals


Design Meets Strategy: Bad slides kill good ideas. This workshop is geared to those who know how to craft a business story and are ready to bring it to life with clear, impactful visuals.

Ideal for: Anyone who needs to uplevel their ability to communicate ideas visually

Learning Outcomes

  • Discover and apply the elements of effective visual strategy 
  • Use interactive tools to lay out the narrative and visual flow of your story 
  • Apply basic design principles to transform slides into clear visuals that inspire action  
For Organizations Data strategy

Presenting Data Visually


Data as a Differentiator: Make your data impossible to ignore by wrapping it in a story that’s easy to scan, digest, and act on. This workshop arms teams with data storytelling best practices to help communicate meaningfully with data.

Ideal for: Anyone who needs to communicate data insights with clarity, whether you’re a data expert or occasional data presenter

Learning Outcomes

  • Humanize data by identifying what your audience needs to know or do with it 
  • Transform cluttered charts and tables into concise and compelling data visualizations 
  • Use clever design techniques to elevate your data story  
For Organizations Hour of power

Business Storytelling Fundamentals


Skills at Scale: This one-hour, on-demand course gives everyone in your organization — regardless of role or function — the foundational storytelling skills to elevate any business communication into a narrative that influences decisions and moves business forward.

Ideal for: Large, cross-functional teams and broad organizational audiences (from individual contributors to executives), or teams that have been through our practitioner training and need a powerful reinforcement

Learning Outcomes

  • Audit and improve existing communications through a simple storytelling framework 
  • Use simple techniques to craft better emails that generate action 
  • Craft powerful headlines that boost your confidence and advance your story 

Learning formats designed to meet teams where they are

In-person

In-person

In-person workshops bring teams together for an immersive, high-engagement learning experience, guided by expert instructors and grounded in real-world application.

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In-person

Virtual instructor-led

All the engagement of in-person training, in a live, interactive format designed for distributed teams who need flexibility without compromising the learning experience.

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Digital on-demand

Digital on-demand

Self-paced, online courses deliver an immersive, high-engagement learning experience that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, with tools that can be immediately applied to real work.

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