2009 PhD Mythological Studies

Described as “a female Joseph Campbell for business,” Neora unpacks how to use communication challenges as a site to create transformative, profoundly inter-relational conversations. “I went from a Hollywood script analyst to a student of Jung to a corporate professor. As much as Campbell found the gods on 42nd  Street, I recognize those patterns inside organizations hungry for a bigger language to see through the epic challenges of the 21st century.”

As founder of Storywell Creative, a communications consultancy, Neora’s coached, ghosted, and consulted for over a decade in Advertising and Hollywood, developing projects, campaigns, and providing training in Mindful Communication and Leadership Identity. She’s lectured for constituencies as varied as Goop, the LA Sherriff’s Department, hospital and counseling groups, and Opus Archives. Additionally, Neora has taught every facet of story and writing process at college, and worked extensively in the non-profit world with story-based intensives for the underserved in Alchemy Inc., Manifestworks, and New Earth.

Neora is core faculty for Silicon Valley based Duarte’s Academy, (the internal storyteller for the world’s biggest brands and the “Harvard” of corporate education). She’s taught design theory based communication strategy to every sector, at every level, globally for years. Neora helped develop Duarte’s story based curriculum, revising “Resonate,” co-creating the “Story Journal Method,” and “Story Fundamentals,” and assisted in the Academy’s transition into virtual and hybrid training. As a senior facilitator, Neora mentors facilitators in the art and craft of empathy based teaching.

LA based, Neora’s loves include writing, reading, spinning, cooking, anything with bubbles, and travel.