The Narrative Office

Stop Using Consensus to Create Bland Business Narratives

Lianne Stewart

Founder, the Narrative Office

Identify when your organization is experiencing narrative drift, and name it clearly instead of calling it “alignment.”

Diagnose Narrative Drift in Real Time

Be able to explain the actual business impact of treating your business narrative like a quarterly asset.

Calculate the compounding cost of narrative drift

Introduce structural guardrails that protect your core narrative, including AI workflows, without escalating conflict.

Reclaim Decision Authority Without Becoming “Difficult”

Stop being the “number explainer.” Build the stories, systems, and credibility to lead with clarity and confidence in the age of AI.

Data & AI leader,19yrs of scaling teams

Pier Martin

 Data & AI leader with 19+ years scaling global teams, Executive coach 

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As a data leader, do you catch yourself asking questions like…- How do I get execs to actually act on my insights instead of tuning out?- How do I influence peers in Product, Ops, and Marketing when they don’t report to me? - How can I build credibility around AI adoption without just demoing tools?- How do I stop my team from being seen as a “ticket shop” and instead as a trusted partner?If you’re not confident about these, this course is for you. This is a hands-on leadership course designed for emerging data leaders, analytics managers, data science managers, and heads of data who want to grow from technical doers into visible, trusted, AI-ready leaders.Before this course, you may feel:- Stuck explaining numbers that don’t lead to action.- Anxious that AI will outpace your team or make your work irrelevant.- Reactive to hype or resistance, rather than steering the narrative.After this course, you’ll:- Turn “data dumps” into compelling stories that executives repeat in the boardroom.- Translate AI pilots into credible business cases that prove ROI, reduce fear, and win support.- Lead your team confidently through change, balancing optimism with realism.

Lead with Data. Inspire with Story. Win with AI.

How to Master Strategic Communication

How to Lead AI Change with Confidence

  How to Build Your Leadership Operating System

Folks who are early in their career, focused only on technical execution, or looking to break into data/analytics should not enroll.

This course is NOT FOR everyone

It is designed for data managers, analytics leads, and heads of data already managing teams and facing leadership challenges.

This is NOT a beginner-level technical course

Overlooked Data Manager delivering dashboards but dismissed in strategy conversations, eager to be trusted for impact.

Stretched Head of Data managing 5-15 people, stuck firefighting, and needing systems to show control and credibility.

Aspiring AI-Ready Data leader, newly promoted from IC, strong technically but lacking storytelling and executive presence.

In 90 minutes, I will teach you tools to become a more effective, memorable storyteller at work — and all other parts of your life.

Creator, the Six-Word Memoir phenomenon

Dell Technologies

Levi Strauss & Co.

Nuveen

Dropbox

OhioHealth

Larry Smith

Creator of the global phenom Six-Word Memoirs and "storytelling whisperer"

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In this 90-minute workshop, from 12PM-1:30PM PT, you’ll learn practical storytelling frameworks that turn complex ideas into clear, memorable narratives that win attention, build credibility, and move decisions.We’ll apply these tools to high-stakes moments — executive updates, all-hands meetings, product launches, sales or campaign pitches, job interviews — as well as everyday conversations. I'll share my proven techniques to align messages, structure stories for engagement, and tailor delivery for different audiences. We’ll cover using AI thoughtfully to draft, iterate, and stress-test content without outsourcing your voice.You will gain enhanced skills to:• Turn presentations and pitches into compelling narratives that capture attention and build trust • Simplify your messages for clarity and team alignment • Use storytelling to reinforce culture, mission, and values • Make every story more clear, concise, and memorableBonus: The same tools work outside of work — for toasts, social gatherings, even eulogies.You'll leave with new storytelling powers for leadership and tools to tell stories that make people lean in, trust you, and respond with three magic words: tell me more.

Strong, Clear, Storytelling Is a Tool for Clarity, Influence, and Impact

Nailing Your Value Proposition

Crafting Pitches That Stick

Presence as a Leadership Superpower

Understand AI as a Partner Not a Replacment

Because many leaders trick themselves into believing everything they say is clear and landing well with others.

A curiosity to elevate your storytelling 

Leaders who want to nail their value proposition for internal team alignment and external messaging

Founders, comms officers, HR directors, and other leaders navigating transitions such as funding rounds, growth, M&amp;A, hybrid workplaces

Professionals looking to grow in their current role or seek a new role now asking this vital question: How can I be a better storyteller?

Stop over-explaining and start guiding decisions. You'll become the professional who walks into senior rooms and walks out with a yes.

24-Year Banker -> Presentation Expert

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Commerzbank

Royal Bank

MaryBeth Hazeldine

24 years at JPMorgan, PwC, RBS. Now training executives to win decisions.

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You've done the work. You know the material. You've prepared the slides.And yet the decision stalls.Polite nods. Reasonable questions. Then: "Let's take this offline." "We'll circle back." "Good discussion."Translation: No decision today.If this keeps happening, it's not because you lack expertise or presentation skills. It's because the way you're structuring your message doesn't match how senior people decide.Here's what nobody tells you: executives make their decision in the first few minutes, then spend the rest of the time looking for reasons to trust that instinct—or doubt it. When you lead with context, build to your recommendation, and back it up with extensive data, you're triggering doubt, not confidence.The unspoken question in their mind: "If they need this much explanation, is the recommendation actually solid?"This course gives you a different approach—a system built on how decisions actually happen in senior rooms. You'll learn to structure your message so that "yes" feels like the obvious, low-risk choice.Not through tips you'll forget under pressure. Through a repeatable system that works even when you're tired, rushed, or facing pushback.

Executives decide before your presentation ends. Structure accordingly

Structure presentations that win decisions

Remove the anxiety before you even start

Build credibility without over-explaining

Choose proof that reassures, not proof that defends

Handle pushback without becoming defensive

Use AI tools without sounding generic or losing authority

<code>You present to executives, boards, or steering committees—and need decisions, not "good discussions." Your credibility is on the line.</code>

You pitch to clients and present recommendations for a living. Stalled decisions cost you deals, revenue, and repeat business.

You're in relationship management, business development, or sales—presenting to win deals, budgets, or strategic alignment.

Unlearn inherited leadership behaviors and build a clear, modern leadership style that fits for you in today’s complex environment

Cohort 1 - Pilot

Executive Coach | Transformation Expert

Slalom

Talkiatry

World Kinect

International Coaching Federation

Co-Active Training Institute

Danielle Tye

Executive coach partnering with modern leaders to redefine how they lead

You’re expected to be decisive, empathetic, strategic, and visionary — all at once. Most leaders respond by defaulting to models they inherited years ago: command-and-control, over-functioning, people-pleasing, or performative confidence. Over time, the gap between who you are and how you lead creates tension — second-guessing, emotional fatigue, strained relationships, or a sense that leadership feels heavier than it should. This course helps you unlearn those scripts and step into leadership that actually fits.This course helps you unlearn inherited leadership scripts and helps you step into a style that fits your values, context, and the complexity of modern work.The pilot cohort sold out! Don't miss your chance to be part of the Leadership Rewritten Movement. Now accepting cohort 2 students.

Most leadership advice wasn’t built for the reality leaders face today.

Clarity on how you actually want to lead

A tool for decisions under pressure without defaulting to inherited patterns

Sustainable leadership that doesn’t drain you

Executive leaders who feel misaligned but aren’t sure where to start in evolving their next iteration of leadership.

Senior Managers, Directors, and VPs navigating increased scope, visibility, and complexity in how they lead.

Emerging middle-management leaders ready to proactively reflect and create their own style before inheriting old scripts.