Stories are resilience, growth, and optimism-drivers for organizations of all types.
A successful story-building strategy requires careful planning, on-point execution, and smart measurement. Narrative Academy embraces a learn-by-doing approach to integrate powerful creative capabilities to your organization’s toolkit.
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Build a research-driven storytelling strategy that outlasts the phases of your organization’s growth—and helps you move with greater speed, dexterity, and efficiency as a result.
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Establish your company’s strategic narrative for the next five years by uniting your staff, board, and investors around a common field of view.
This process fosters internal cohesion while positioning your customers and partners as your guiding north star. The deliverable is an internal document.
By taking the time to define your messaging and positioning strategy, you drive cross-departmental success, breaking down silos across product, marketing, sales, and customer success. You’ll also strengthen the foundation for how your solution, technology, or capability is perceived in relation to industry and macro trends.
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If you’re not familiar with the term GTM, it means “go-to-market.” This process involves educating prospective customers and partners, to help them make a decision.
Our approach ensures that you’re delivering your key message clearly, succinctly, and with precision—to eliminate barriers to product adoption and sales cycle efficiency.
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Build a library of attention-grabbing, engaging stories—using a combination of writing, graphics and video—to proactively drive outcomes for your business.
These narratives will be mapped to your buyer journey, so you can demonstrate a clear impact to your KPIs.
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Unify your audiences around a shared community bulletin board. Bring your newsletter strategy back to the fundamentals of its storytelling core.
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In our numbers-driven world, human interest narratives are how we bring important ideas home.
Blending best practices from journalism, copywriting, and research methods, these timeless stories will be an appreciating asset for your organization.
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From lunch and learns to training curriculum, craft a one-of-a-kind educational experience for your internal learning hub, event, conference, or webinar—with the goal of ensuring that your organization remains visible and differentiated in an otherwise noisy landscape.
Some steps in our process:
Pinpoint key areas for motivational and developmental learning
Adapt our existing modular curriculum library to specific goals to uplift and inspire
Determine editorial/production needs to develop an on-target curriculum.
Establish an instructional model that makes sense for what you want to share
Determine add-ons (coaching, feedback, etc.)
Create assets that ensure an on-brand and compelling learning experience.
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GenAI isn’t about replacing humans. It can be profoundly supportive in generating rapid-response collateral, phrasing core messaging ideas in new ways, establishing structure for readability, and operating as a quick-response agent.
The key is to identify the optimal human loops in which GenAI systems make sense. We help you incorporate GenAI workflows into your marketing and communications initiatives.
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Communities and partner ecosystems empower organizations to hit their growth KPIs more effectively, at lower cost-per-acquisition.
Make sure you have the right strategy, operating model, collateral, and channel optimization strategy, to get these initiatives up, running, and scaling.
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Establish an on-point data story to share with your company’s c-suite and board.
Ensure that you’re incorporating statistical best practices and that you’re capturing the exact metrics that matter most to your organization.
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Transform complex concepts into stunning narrative experiences. Blend logic and aesthetics to captivate the imagination. Integrate planning, writing, data visualization, and design into a unified process.
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Build an internal communications function by leveraging the best consulting strategists in the industry, following an “agency-like” model. Rely on a team that embeds within your organization vs. operating as “just a service provider.”
Who we work with
Leaders who are committed to being positive role models and educators.
People who are a committed to a better future for humanity, who envision the practice of storytelling as integral to that process.
Initiatives focused on strengthening equity of access, rapid response, and empathy within our global health systems.
Finance-forward organizations across venture capital, private equity, philanthropy, embedded finance, compliance, and banking.
Industrial innovation initiatives in deep tech, R&D, venture, innovation, climate, AI, and connectivity (IIoT, etc.) that are committed to the energy transition.
Our approach
Learn by doing
Fortify the foundation
Ship incrementally
Perfection-as-process
Listen, adapt
Iterate fast
Harness insights
Build upwards
Enjoy the journey
Select customers
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LinkedIn
Twitter
Stack Overflow
Lean Startup Company
The Globe and Mail
Forbes
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Salesforce
Sema Technologies, Inc.
U.S. government innovation
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Zephyr Peacock India Growth Fund
Scale Venture Partners
Primary Venture Partners
RocketSpace
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Soracom
aeSolutions
Praxedo
Boviet Solar USA
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Juvo Mobile
Trulioo
Social Venture Partners
Plaid
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Kodiak Solutions
WHILL
Blue Shield of Illinois
Blue Shield of California
Key Solutions
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Kenna Security
Okta
Cloudera
Atos
McKinseyItem description
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Higher Ground
Lean Startup Education
General Assembly
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Evergage
Shopify
Maven Wave/Atos
BigCommerce
Tangiblee
Memorable experiences
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Our team supported 3 groups within LinkedIn’s Recruiting Solutions line of business, across a variety of product, marketing, and sales initiatives. We created strategic content to help these teams achieve their quarterly KPI goals through improved messaging strategies.
We interviewed customers in tough-to-convert segments and developed relevant market education materials that increased conversion rates.
Deliverables included strategic frameworks, playbooks, integrated campaign copy, and product marketing resources. One memorable experience was the opportunity to support the company’s expansion into the local government sector.
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One of the top venture capital firms in the United States worked with our team of coaches to develop its thesis for how companies can introduce implement GenAI into their software engineering workflow.
This education ultimately reached hundreds of thousands of people and supported the firm’s first investment into a starup developing GenAI for code.
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This corporate accelerator, based in Silicon Valley with a global institutional network, bridged partnerships between startups and some of the largest global corporations in manufacturing, shipping/logistics, and agricultural banking.
We built an educational program for quarterly events, demo days, and blogging/report creation initiatives to facilitate an ongoing sense of community—helping to expand this organization's visibility and impact around the world.
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A legal tech/governance platform in the AI code space needed to educate its market about its solution. We developed an education communications strategy to explain the core product philosophy, introduce the solutions model to a handful of leading PE firms, and recruit 60+ pilot program participants from 0.
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Adobe has developed some of the most iconic software in our modern tech world.
The company worked with us to build a personal branding platform for a cohort of directors and VPs. We took an education-driven approach, to support skill-building throughout the organization so employees felt comfortable engaging.
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In 2017, we worked with some of the world's top technical and innovation experts to develop a knowledge base pertaining to external communications, internal information-sharing, and personal brand-building.
The effort supported a broader, politically agnostic initiative: the development of an internal innovation curriculum.
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Lean Startup Education is known for attracting, engaging, and inspiring entrepreneurs and innovation practitioners—in various commercial and government settings—around the world. Approximately 1M people have self-identified as being a part of this movement.
Our team led & supported program-building efforts for this organization's annual conference, coached speakers, and helped turn the content that we generated into scalable education curriculum.
What people say..
“Narrative Academy continues to be vital for each company I am a part of. Their depth of knowledge and ability to articulate industry semantics are comparable to conversations I have with leading academics who specialize in their respective scientific fields. As an executive, I rely on their keen ability to understand people to help form high-level strategies."
— Ben Strahan, marketing executive @Arduino, @Soracom, @Hologram