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Through storytelling, Bursting Through helps organizations unlock trust, deepen connections, and create cultures where people and profits thrive.
A 60-minute interactive workshop that uses real storytelling, guided conversation, and shared reflection to help participants see and understand one another in new ways. It opens space for trust, belonging, and human connection—the foundation of productive teams and healthy culture.
The workshop uses story to move participants from assumptions to understanding, and conversation to build trust and empathy. Through simple, practical actions, teams walk away ready to strengthen collaboration, communication, and culture. It blends emotional resonance with clear, actionable steps—turning human connection into real momentum.
Harvard Business Review
A powerful, story-led keynote (or live conversation) that reveals how real human connection transforms workplaces, communities, and the way we show up for one another. Steve Petersen brings five years of community storytelling to the stage to deliver an experience that is emotional, inspiring, and deeply human.
The Experience blends storytelling, lived experience, and practical Allyship insights to spark empathy and shift perspectives. It invites audiences to reflect, challenge assumptions, and reimagine how they see and support the people around them.
Michael Moorhouse, Moorhouse Group
A human-centered consulting partnership that uncovers the human truths organizations can’t access through surveys or standard methods. Through story-led insight, connection-based advisory, and culture and performance roadmapping, Bursting Through helps leaders create workplaces where people feel seen, valued, and motivated.
We partner with leaders to uncover what employees are truly experiencing—not just what they feel safe saying. By translating story into insight, insight into connection, and connection into culture change, we help organizations overcome hidden human barriers, strengthen trust, and align teams around shared values.
Johannsen & Zak, neuroscience of organizational trust
Steve Petersen is the founder of Bursting Through, a human- centered media and consulting movement uniting marginalized communities and their Allies. His 27-year career in marketing and visual merchandising took him from rural Iowa to Fortune 500 companies in Manhattan, shaping his understanding of how connection, visibility, and culture impact people and performance.
Coming out in his mid-20s cemented his core values of compassion, courage, and change. These values fuel the Bursting Through Movement and guide his mission to create safety, equality, and belonging through the power of human connection.
“The most powerful way to build compassion, empathy, and understanding is through the superpower of storytelling.”
Bursting Through isn’t a nonprofit—it’s a storytelling movement and media company for marginalized communities and their Allies across the United States. We began through the lens of LGBTQ+ Allyship, but our work has evolved to embrace all communities too often silenced, dismissed, or pushed aside.
As a media company, we use storytelling to spark courageous conversations, grow compassion, and ignite change. Bursting Through partners with individuals and companies ready to turn intention into action and co-create a culture rooted in our shared human experience.
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