Well ToldStrategy

Strategic narrative partners for organisations.

Read the
story

Every organisation has a story only they can tell.

As the world changes, so must the way you tell it. We start by asking what already feels obvious inside your organisation, but often gets lost on the way out.

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Do you have a unified view of where you are heading?

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Does every leader tell the same story?

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Is your purpose clear enough to travel without you?

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Could your audience explain your mission as clearly as your team?

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How well is your story understood, and why does it matter to people?

AI & story

“Why can’t AI write my story?”

It may know more about you than you think.

AI can find patterns in what people say, search, buy and share. It can mirror a voice and produce fluent copy in seconds. We should be honest about that.

But your organisation must choose what matters.

A real story rests on lived experience, hard choices and judgement. We do not ask AI to write it.

We find it with you, then write it with care until it sounds unmistakably yours.

Two people who have been insidethe rooms you’re trying to reach.

Between us: Harvard, Lloyds, BBC, Curtis Brown, and a novel in 24 languages. We know what gets lost and how to find it.

Portrait of Abi Daré

Abi Daré

Co-founder · Novelist · Educator · Storyteller

New York Times bestselling novelist and inaugural Climate Fiction Prize winner, translated into 24 languages and taught in schools worldwide.

More about Abi
  • Storytelling tutor with Curtis Brown Creative, The Guardian Masterclasses, and Arvon
  • Speaker at Harvard Kennedy School, London Business School, the Financial Times, and the House of Lords
Portrait of Joanna Rahim

Joanna Rahim

Co-founder · Strategist · Journalist · Storyteller

Award-winning journalist whose work spans the BBC, Lloyds, Time Inc, the NHS and UK Government.

More about Joanna
  • Founder of enterprise storytelling at Lloyds Banking Group
  • Former Senior Director of Storytelling at UnitedHealth Group
  • Awards include a British Media Association Gold, a Content Marketing Association Gold, two Communicate Lens Awards, and the British Medical Association Silver Award for Journalism.

Every great strategy follows a familiar shape.

Explore the five beats that turn a strategy from a document into a story people can understand and carry.

The Spark

A need. A moment. The reason this organisation exists at all, and why it matters now more than ever.

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Story doesn’t just move people. It moves the world.

The right story changes what people understand and what they choose to do next.

Individual
1session

After one session with fifty founders, three reached a major funding shortlist selected by MIT and Harvard professors.

Story changed what investors believed.
Societal
24languages

A daughter’s question became a novel translated into 24 languages and taught in classrooms worldwide.

Story changed what the world saw as possible.
Organisational
£3Btech transformation

A simple graphic helped the Lloyds Banking Group board choose a path through a £3 billion technology transformation.

Story aligned what data alone could not.

We deal with all things story.

How we work

Most clients begin with a conversation and a narrative audit. We listen, assess how the story lands, and recommend the right format.

Every engagement leaves you with a story your people can carry, plus the language and framework to keep it alive.

Workshops from two days. Narrative sprints from two to four weeks. Programmes from six weeks. Retainers from three months.

What happens if you don’t tell your story?

  • The gap between you and your audience widens.
  • Strategy becomes harder to explain every time it is repeated.
  • The story of your organisation gets written somewhere else.
Ready to begin?

Build the story your strategy depends on.

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