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Maryam Pasha
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Storytelling
Maryam Pasha helps organisations turn complex ideas into stories that stick, drawing on a decade directing and curating TEDxLondon. A storytelling coach, speaker coach, and co-host of TEDxLondon's Climate Curious podcast, her work has reached over fifteen million viewers.
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Maryam Pasha helps organisations turn complex ideas into stories that audiences remember and act on. As director and curator of TEDxLondon and TEDxLondon Women, she has spent a decade coaching TEDx and TED speakers, with talks she has worked on reaching over fifteen million viewers worldwide and shaping public debate on issues from climate to social justice.
Maryam also co-hosts Climate Curious, TEDxLondon's podcast exploring practical solutions to the climate crisis, and has curated for TED's climate initiative, TED Countdown, since 2023. In 2015 she founded X Equals, working with individuals and teams on events design, curation, storytelling, and pitch coaching.
Maryam's background spans human rights, psychology, and refugee support work, giving her a grounded understanding of how people process difficult or unfamiliar ideas. She draws on this to help speakers and teams find language that lands, whether the goal is inspiring a room or shifting how an audience thinks about a subject.
Sessions with Maryam leave audiences with concrete tools for shaping and delivering their own stories, a clearer sense of what makes an idea spread, and practical takeaways they can use the next time they need to be heard. Book Maryam to bring both TED-level storytelling craft and hands-on climate expertise to your event.
Maryam Pasha has directed and curated TEDxLondon for over a decade, coached TED and TEDx speakers whose talks have reached over fifteen million viewers, and co-hosts TEDxLondon's Climate Curious podcast. She also curates for TED Countdown, TED's climate initiative, pairing storytelling authority with active climate expertise.
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Maryam Pasha structures sessions around practical storytelling frameworks drawn from her decade of coaching TED and TEDx speakers, giving participants concrete tools they can apply to their own communication challenges.
Maryam Pasha speaks on storytelling, communication and public speaking, climate change, and the craft of making complex ideas land with audiences. She is Director and Curator of TEDxLondon and TEDxLondon Women, with talks she has coached reaching over fifteen million viewers worldwide.
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