Danielle Dardashti

Danielle Dardashti is an award-winning storyteller, documentarian, and author, who helps companies utilize strategic storytelling to achieve business results. She produces live storytelling shows and leads story workshops with companies all over the world. Clients include Pfizer, Intel, Allianz, SAP, BlackRock, and Viatris. She also helps brands like Marriott and Pfizer tell impactful stories through film and audio. Danielle is an Emmy award-winning documentary producer/writer, a Moth StorySLAM champion who has been featured on NPR's Moth Radio Hour, and she is the host and show runner of The Nightingale of Iran, a current hit documentary audio series about her famous Persian Jewish family. Among its many accolades, Nightingale won 2024 Signal Awards for Best Writing and Best Documentary. It was named Best Podcast of 2024 by the Quill Awards. Danielle spent the first decade of her career as an on-air TV reporter in Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. She has held senior branded content roles at Meredith Corporation and Tribune Publishing. She is co-founder of the live storytelling show Storyboom. And she is the co-author of The Jewish Family Fun book series (2002, 2004, 2008, Jewish Lights).