BILL GRIMMETTE

Master Motivational Story Speaker who uses the model of the fable, the legend and the folktale to arouse others to greatness. Bill travels around the globe crafting, collecting and performing stories of personal power and potential to audiences as diverse as pre-K elementary schoolers to executive leaders in Multi-national corporations.

His art has become his business. He is Past President of the National Association of Black Storytellers and a perennial performer with the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institutions.

Bill's considerable lifetime experiences began as a poverty stricken son of a single mother who raised 10 kids to excellence. This ill-omened start ferried him through a career as an Army officer, a high school teacher, a 30 year veteran actor on stage, film and television and a motivational speaker.

These different masks evolved into the storyteller who not only tells stories but conducts workshops, residencies, seminars and executive coaching sessions on the power of telling your own story.