Coonoor Behal is the founder of Mindhatch, an organizational and customer insights firm that specializes in improv and design thinking. She often uses improv to help people learn empathy on the fly by playing different characters or perspectives. Storytelling in various forms can be a powerful tool for gaining new perspectives and creating shared understanding, especially in business where it can lead to better results and foster empathy among customers, leaders, and designers. Research has shown that stories can literally change our brain chemistry, producing chemicals like oxytocin associated with care, connection, and empathy. Effective storytelling shares certain characteristics such as using sensory details and images, jokes and metaphors, and not bogging people down with unnecessary facts and figures. By incorporating storytelling into their work, teams and individuals can generate empathy and create a better understanding of the human beings they interact with, which is essential in business today.