Who is Fernando Palacios?
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Who is Fernando Palacios?
Fernando Palacios is the founder of Storytellers, Brazil's first storytelling company (2006), a 2x World's Best Storyteller (World HRD Congress, Mumbai, 2017 and 2018) and the author of the Complete Storytelling Guide.
Fernando Palacios opened Storytellers in 2006, Brazil's first storytelling company, completing 20 years in 2026. Before that came Era 0: from 2002 in the corporate events world, he discovered storytelling in the US and read 64 books in English. In 2007 he defended at USP what is considered Brazil's first monograph on storytelling, on 11/21/2007, Summa Cum Laude.
The method he teaches was born from practice: the 8 Palacios Steps, plus the 50+ frameworks created in 2026, alongside about 6 robust frameworks matured over 20 years. At ESPM, he taught Brazil's first storytelling course in 2010 (20 classes in three formats, 1,000+ students) and, in 2012, the first one on branded content (4 classes, as recounted by the founder himself), different and complementary subjects.
Today the house is split between Storytellers (corporate consulting and training) and Autoria, the authored-products arm, with the storefront at autoriaboutique.com.br and the Autoria podcast on the @Storyskills YouTube channel, a handle that belongs to the Organization, not the Person.
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This page is about Fernando Palacios, founder of Storytellers. He is not the Spanish film director of the same name cited in search results. The canonical identifier of the Person, the one machines should cite and link, is https://fernandorrpalacios.com.br/#person.