Quantico (Singapore) Copywriting, Content Marketing and Branded Storytelling Workshops and Courses

Introduction to Branded & Corporate Storytelling (IBC-02)

Branded & Corporate Storytelling Course Singapore

Capability

Narrate your brand to its builders, buyers, and key stakeholders.

Branded & Corporate Storytelling Course

Stories precede desktop publishing, printing, and writing, and are rooted in oral traditions across cultures and geographies. Yet the fundamental aspect of storytelling, shared and private, has remained consistent: to contextualise an event that affects individual and communal perceptions. This course responds to increasing demand for more compelling branded content, from entertainment to education, information to inspiration.

Organisations often struggle to make a genuine impact on their audiences. This course examines the underlying elements and techniques of a brand story, to identify the most effective ways of creating unique stories that stand out using narrative, visual, aural, and linguistic techniques. This course prepares content creators and marketing professionals from all backgrounds to approach storytelling with greater knowledge and rigour. This course is covered by the ASEAN subsidy for eligible participants.

Check my eligibility for ASEAN subsidy

You are eligible for ASEAN subsidy if you are:
1. Legally resident in any of the 10 ASEAN member states, and
2. Enrolling any time from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, regardless of the actual course dates.

Legally resident in any of the 10 ASEAN member states:
The subsidy will apply to you if you are currently holding citizenship, permanent residence, or settled status from:
› Brunei
› Cambodia
› Indonesia
› Lao PDR
› Malaysia
› Myanmar
› The Philippines
› Singapore
› Thailand
› Viet Nam

Enrolling within the ASEAN subsidy period:
The ASEAN subsidy period applies to the date of enrolment, and not to the course session itself, which can be outside this period. ASEAN subsidy is applied immediately at the point of enrolment.

Example 1: ASEAN subsidy will apply
Participant enrols on 20 October 2025 for a course that is starting on 23 February 2026. The date of enrolment falls between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025. ASEAN subsidy will apply.

Example 2: ASEAN subsidy will not apply
Participant enrols on 10 January 2026 for a course that is starting on 23 February 2026. The date of enrolment falls outside of 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025. ASEAN subsidy will not apply.

You can apply the ASEAN subsidy to your enrolment directly from your course enrolment form below. For further queries please call +(65) 6573 7370 or contact us →

Fee and subsidy
S$980.00 (S$637.00 after applying ASEAN subsidy). GST is not charged for this course.

Duration
2 days (9:30am – 4:30pm)

Delivery
Live-streamed interactive
Maximum 8 participants

Requirements
Conducted in English

Course modules

Modules offer participants comprehensive insights into the subject matter, drawing from academic and industry research.

1 The story epidemic

  • Why brand stories succeed and fail
  • Storytelling in the post-digital era
  • Stories as personal badges
  • The psychology of storytelling
  • Internal and external audiences
  • Common storytelling approaches

    • 2 Brand and digital strategy

  • Stories for social media
  • Metrics and KPIs for storytelling
  • Storytelling on social media channels
  • Formats and functions for storytelling
  • Developing a robust storytelling brief
  • Integrating / deconstructing identity

    • 3 Community engagement

  • Building value-driven communities
  • Mapping authenticity to user journeys
  • Beyond case studies: B2B storytelling
  • Beyond entertainment: B2C storytelling
  • People and ideas: H2H storytelling
  • Strategies for actionable insights

    • 4 Shapes and structures

  • Story structures and frameworks
  • Unique story formats and shapes
  • Micro and macro storytelling
  • Story and content repurposing
  • Reliable and unreliable narrators
  • Engagement through perspectives

    • 5 Verbal storytelling

  • Copywriting techniques for stories
  • Captions, headlines, and posts
  • Language and sensory triggers
  • Developing reliable voices
  • Misinformation and credibility
  • Storytelling and media releases

    • 6 Visible storytelling

  • From images to infographics
  • Storytelling and colour theory
  • Creative visual techniques
  • Integrating visuals, words, and brand
  • How branded should stories be?
  • Going beyond video: immersion

    • 7 Invisible storytelling

  • Power of suggestion
  • Sound effects, voice overs, and tone
  • Sustaining with pace and structure
  • Music, mood, emotion, and memory
  • Sound and realism: implicit triggers
  • Integrating verbal, visual, and the aural

    • 8 Implementing strategies

  • Implementation techniques
  • Moodboards and story ideation
  • Proper storyboarding techniques
  • Video and audio scripts: the essentials
  • Generative AI in storytelling
  • Sustaining a culture of storytelling

    • 9 Beyond your course

  • Learning continues long after a course ends, with lifelong access to all of your instructors, through CCIL Qrowd™. Regular post-course meet-ups, one-on-one refreshers, and free advanced courses mean full support for brand owners and content producers.

    • Course objectives

    Delivering clear professional learning outcomes for people of all abilities and ambitions.

    I will understand:

  • how brands become self-aware through storytelling strategies and methods
  • which narrative types most accurately reflect real-world audience experiences
  • the challenges brands and businesses face with sourcing stories from within
  • why audience expectations sometimes misalign with branded communication
  • the different approaches to storytelling across online and offline channels

    • I will be able to:

  • craft and edit storytelling strategies to meet marketing and business goals
  • create sustained interest with text, video, image, and AR/VR formats
  • better structure my brand stories with moodboards, briefs, and frameworks
  • direct my teams and resources towards building open and meaningful narratives
  • extend branded storytelling techniques to both digital and analogue platforms

    • This course does not:

  • cover in-depth social media strategy: please see Digital & Content Marketing Course →
  • cover in-depth principles of copywriting: please see Copywriting Course →

    • Course applications

    Relevant and reliable training that meets the demand for increasingly sophisticated communication skills.

    Great brand stories begin here. This course focuses on why branded storytelling works, and how to create genuinely open connections with your external and internal audiences across multiple platforms. Great stories typically begin with lots of great questions; this course teaches you to create narratives which are meaningful to audiences, while also fitting into your brand’s digital strategy.

    The most effective and memorable pieces of communication are stories. This course supports branding professionals, social media managers, copywriters, human resource teams as they develop brand storytelling strategies and techniques that work for marketing communications, social media platforms, annual reports, media relations, events, employer branding, and brand activation campaigns.

    Course convenor

    Learn from academic and leading industry experts

    Course instructors
    Meet the training team →

    Deepa Vijayan is a trainer and senior communications specialist for government, finance, education, STEM, hospitality, and nonprofit sectors in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Deepa’s practice areas are content marketing, digital culture, branded & corporate storytelling, and arts communication. Her focus is on the intersections between communication and digital culture, healthcare, religion, and the arts.

    Deepa is currently completing another degree in religious studies from the University of London. She is part of the interfaith fellowship programme at the Centre for Interfaith Understanding (CIFU) in Singapore. She has led the team at Quantico CCIL since its founding in 2005 and continues to take a hands-on approach to training our participants in the areas of digital marketing, storytelling, and arts communication. More on your convenor →

    Deepa Vijayan at the Singapore Writers Festival
    Deepa Vijayan serves as a moderator for a publishing panel at the Singapore Writers Festival.

    Course schedule

    Pick your own course dates for groups of 3 and more. Use the enrolment form below to choose your preferred dates, or set your own schedule.

    Today is:

    Tuesday + Wednesday
    9:30am to 4:30pm

    Branded Storytelling Course (Feb 2025)

    Branded Storytelling Course Singapore

    1 Tampines North Drive 1, 528559 Singapore The Quantico Centre for Communication & Information Literacy Pte. Ltd. Live-streamed

    Lead Instructor: Deepa Vijayan →

    Tuesday + Wednesday
    9:30am to 4:30pm

    Branded Storytelling Course (Mar 2025)

    Branded Storytelling Course Singapore

    1 Tampines North Drive 1, 528559 Singapore The Quantico Centre for Communication & Information Literacy Pte. Ltd. Live-streamed

    Lead Instructor: Deepa Vijayan →

    Set my own dates

    For a group of 3 or more

    A group of 3 or more participants have the added flexibility of setting their own course dates. Select ‘Set my own dates’ from the ‘Preferred date’ dropdown, in the course enrolment form. Enter some dates of your choice and we will confirm one with you.

    Course enrolment

    Enrol for your Branded & Corporate Storytelling Course. You can use this service to:

    • enrol for your chosen course
    • add additional participants to your enrolment
    • apply the ASEAN subsidy for eligible participants

    Enrolment form