About GatherRound
returning businessTo the essence of storytelling.
GatherRound is a training company. We empower leaders to trade presentation habits that don’t serve them anymore for stories that move people.
business traded fireFor files.
For centuries, people gathered around the fire to share the stories that shaped belief and moved communities forward.
Then business found a faster way. Communication got handed to software, and leaders started mistaking volume for persuasion. Slide by slide, a distance grew between important ideas and the people who need to act on them.
We exist to close that distance, so the ideas that matter most get the stories they deserve.
the braver presenterManifesto.
Every GatherRound program, and every Guide who teaches one, holds to the same commitments.
- I examine instead of repeat.
- I choose instead of default.
- I don’t confuse information with meaning.
- I don’t surrender my responsibility to software.
- I respect my audience’s time and attention.
- I accept that good communication takes work.
- I know simple isn’t easy.
- I accept the responsibility I have to my audience, and to my idea, and I put myself third.
one mission.Fueling the movement.
One company, one method and a network of Guides, all working to bring storytelling back to business. Here’s how they fit together.
GatherRoundThe company. We design and deliver storytelling and presentation training for leaders, teams and whole organizations, and we certify the Guides who teach it.
The Campfire MethodOur framework, built on Four Promises: Audience, Story, Environment and Self, and taught the same way by every Guide.
GatherRound GuidesThe people. Certified facilitators who deliver the training with the rigor clients deserve, whether they’re independent or inside a client’s own walls.
The book is the method.
The Campfire Method: There’s a Braver Presenter in You is part philosophy, part workshop, with every step of the training spelled out. Every Guide teaches from it, and any leader can start with it.
Explore the book →- 2015founded
- 8,000+leaders
- 80+organizations
meet the peopleAround the fire.
Eric Harris
A recovering advertiser, Eric founded GatherRound in 2015, invented The Campfire Method and wrote the book on intentional presentations. Today he leads programs, speaks to leadership audiences and personally trains every new Guide.
Meet Eric →
A growing network
Certified GatherRound Guides bring this work to leaders in their own markets and industries. If you lead learning for organizations, there may be a Guide in you.
Become a Guide →one way of workingAt every scale.
Presentation Sprint
For one leader. Six weeks of one-on-one coaching for a high-stakes moment.
Campfire Method Workshop
For one team. A hands-on day that builds the stories that move ideas forward.
Enterprise Storytelling
For one company. A shared method for how important ideas travel.
Want to teach The Campfire Method?Become a certified GatherRound Guide and add it to your own practice.
Become a Guide →trusted by organizationsWith ideas worth spreading.
Gather round
your ideas deserveBetter than defaults.
Tell us what’s riding on your next big idea, and we’ll show you where to start.