#180 How building your Magnetic Employer Brand is like dating - part 1
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
Release Date: 04/24/2024
#206 Employer Branding Budget for 2026 – Budgeting Tips For Story-Driven Plans
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
In this episode of the Story-Driven Business Podcast, Susanna explains why budgeting employer branding for 2026 is essential for winning business leaders. Every employer has an employer image, but a true employer brand only exists when people feel an emotional connection. Without strategic investment, your image will be shaped by others, from employees to ex-employees, and from competitors to job seekers — and not always in your favour. Susanna shares a practical breakdown of what real story-driven budgeting looks like, including strategy and planning, creative assets, tools,...
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#205 Navigating AI-Driven Change: Why Emotional Commitment to Your Business' Story Is Key to Success
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
As AI rewrites the rules of business, emotional commitment is your competitive edge. In this episode, I explore how story-driven leadership builds trust, resilience and clarity when everything feels uncertain. Why do some teams rise through chaos while others resist change? The answer lies in the power of emotional connection to your business story. 🎙️ Hit play now and start leading through storytelling. 👉 Hosted by me, Susanna Rantanen | #StoryDrivenBusiness Find me on socials as @rantanensusanna Enjoy!
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#204 What is Business Storytelling? It's a Messaging Framework, Not Telling Insignificant Tales
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
Think storytelling in business is about career tales or brand fluff? Think again. In this episode, Susanna Rantanen breaks down what business storytelling really is: a strategic communication method that helps you win attention, build trust, and move people—whether they’re employees, customers, job seekers or stakeholders. Discover how to apply StoryBrand framework (SP7) and Susanna’s own Talent Journey of the Information Era™ to make your messaging magnetic, internally and externally. 🎧 Listen now and start turning ideas into movements. 🛠 Need help applying this in your...
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#203 How To Build A Story-Driven Business, Step By Step
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
What happens when leadership, employer branding, internal comms, and business strategy all tell the same story? You stop running campaigns… And start building trust, alignment, and long-term traction. In this episode, Susanna unpacks: ✅ The 4 levels of story integration ✅ Why most businesses fail at story (hint: it’s fear, not complexity) ✅ Why story-driven employer branding is the true foundation of a story-driven business ✅ How to activate story in your leadership culture, not just your content This isn’t branding fluff. It’s business transformation, person by person, guide...
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#202 From Talent Shortages to Talent Magnetism as a Growth Strategy
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
What if the problem isn’t a lack of talent—but a lack of trust in your brand? In this episode of the Story-Driven Business Podcast, Susanna reveals why the talent shortage you’re experiencing is actually a positioning problem and a trust issue. You will learn how to fix it by turning your employer brand into a growth strategy. ✅ Learn how to attract the right people before you even post a job.✅ Discover why most employer brands push talent away—and how to stop doing that.✅ Get inspired to lead with purpose, clarity, and the Magnetic Employer Branding Method™. 🎧 ...
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#201 How Business Storytelling Transforms Your Influence as a Leader
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
What if the reason your employees aren’t engaged, your strategy isn’t landing, or your change initiative is falling flat isn’t the idea itself, but how you’re communicating it? In this episode of the Story-Driven Business Podcast, Susanna Rantanen, the world’s leading expert in story-driven, modern employer branding, guides you through the biggest shift today’s business leaders need to make: ➡️ Stop being the hero. ➡️ Start being the guide. If you want to influence change, inspire people to act, and become a more impactful communicator, this is your playbook. Want the...
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#200 The Future of Work Isn’t Coming—It’s Here. Are You Still Marketing Like It’s 2019?
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
🔥 The future of work isn’t coming. It’s here. And most companies? Still marketing like it’s 2019. Still running talent campaigns that feel generic. Still separating leadership voice from employer brand. Still wondering why trust and advocacy are fading. Deloitte’s 2025 Human Capital Trends Report says it clearly: Human outcomes are business outcomes. Story is now a leadership tool—not a marketing trick. Episode 200 of my Story-Driven Business Podcast shows how to evolve your brand—and your leadership—for this new era. 💡 Why campaigns alone won’t work 💡 How story...
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#199 Brand Affinity: Why Your Employees Need to Love Your Strategy
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
Employees won’t advocate for what they don’t understand—or feel. Too many companies mistake “brand awareness” or internal campaigns for advocacy. But without emotional connection to your strategy—without brand affinity—you’ll never build a true culture of alignment, ownership, and advocacy. Today, we’re talking about a game-changing concept for CEOs and founders who are ambitious, who can achieve their vision, but whose company sometimes feels more like a loose collection of teams than a single, aligned force. Find the show notes for this episode here: Get my...
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#198 The CEO as Chief Storyteller: Leading With Narrative Power
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
🔥 CEOs, listen up. The most powerful storyteller in your employer brand isn’t HR or comms. It’s YOU. When the person at the top goes quiet, so does the culture. But when you lead with a story—authentic, value-based, human story—your people don’t just listen. They align. They believe. They act. In this final part of my podcast series on modern leadership branding, I unpack why narrative power is the new executive influence tool—and what it looks like when the CEO becomes the Chief Storyteller. ✔️ What stories you should be telling ✔️ Where to show up (without being an...
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#197 From EVP to Impact: The Death of Corporate Fluff
Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen
RIP old-school EVPs. They had a good run… until nobody believed them anymore. 🙃 The world has changed. People want work that fits into their lives—not just flashy slogans and buzzword bingo on your careers page. In this episode of the Story-Driven Business Podcast, I’m showing you the modern replacement: ✨ The Modern Work-to-Life Promise ✨ Real, evolving Key Story Themes These aren’t just words. They’re the foundation of trust, retention and reputation. Learn the method →
info_outlineEmployer Brand, as a consistent communication process such as building the Magnetic Employer Brand, is like dating in the pursuit of finding The One.
In this episode of the Building a Modern Employer Brand podcast, I compare dating to employer branding.
Because I’m exploring a more difficult topic in depth, I decided to split this into two episodes. The other one will be released next week as episode 181.
If you are like many of our clients, you’ll laugh because what I explain to you is so true and makes so much sense.
And if anything, this image of dating in employer branding will stick to your mind, and you’ll remember it forever!
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Check out also Employer Branding Agency Emine’s blog: https://emine.fi/blogi/