Impact + Advisory
Narrative is not only what an organization says. It is the context in which people decide what to trust, what to protect, and what future they are willing to build.
My impact and advisory work supports filmmakers, institutions, companies, and leadership teams navigating moments where story, culture, and meaning carry real consequence. Drawing from documentary practice, cross-cultural experience, leadership development, and narrative intelligence, I help partners understand the stories already shaping perception, belonging, trust, and decision-making.
This work is not about messaging or amplification. It is about clarity, discernment, and responsibility.
This Work Serves
- Filmmakers and creative teams seeking executive producing, creative advisory, or story consultation on projects where authorship, ethics, and narrative consequence are inseparable.
- Companies and leadership teams navigating change, culture, communication, conflict, or uncertainty and seeking deeper alignment around meaning, trust, and decision-making.
- Cultural, educational, government, and media institutions working across difference, identity, memory, belonging, and public trust.
- Organizations and initiatives addressing conflict, displacement, or social change seeking narrative clarity rather than surface-level communication.
Across these contexts, I collaborate selectively—prioritizing projects where trust, rigor, and long-term thinking are valued, and where story is approached as a responsibility rather than a tactic.
Advisory & Consulting Areas
My work may include:
- Narrative Strategy Helping leaders and teams understand the dominant stories shaping a moment, project, organization, or public conversation.
- Leadership Development Working with leaders to strengthen their capacity for listening, sense-making, communication, and decision-making in complex environments.
- Cross-Cultural Intelligence Helping teams navigate culture, identity, language, power, and belonging with greater awareness and responsibility.
- Workshops & Facilitation Designing reflective, high-trust sessions that help groups slow down, surface assumptions, and engage difficult questions with clarity and care.
- Creative Advisory & Executive Producing Supporting films and media projects where story, cultural context, and ethical responsibility are central to the work.
- Impact Strategy Helping films, institutions, and initiatives think carefully about audience, timing, consequence, and long-term meaning.
- Narrative Infrastructure Developing durable assets—such as films, written briefs, workshops, convenings, or private digital resources—that help organizations hold meaning over time.
Speaking & Convening
Alongside advisory and consulting work, I engage audiences through keynote talks, moderated conversations, and workshops focused on narrative intelligence—how stories shape perception, belief, leadership, culture, and belonging.
These engagements draw from documentary practice, lived experience, and years of work across cultural, governmental, educational, and organizational settings. Whether addressing senior leadership, creative communities, or public audiences, the goal is the same: to slow the conversation down enough for meaning to emerge.
Formats may include:
- Keynote talks and featured lectures for universities, conferences, institutions, and leadership gatherings.
- Leadership workshops and facilitated sessions for executives, teams, and organizations navigating complexity, transition, or cultural change.
- Cross-cultural intelligence sessions for groups working across difference, identity, language, and global context.
- Public conversations and institutional convenings designed to hold difficult questions with depth, care, and responsibility.
Institutional Engagement
My advisory, speaking, consulting, and collaborative work has engaged with institutions including Harvard University, National Geographic, The New York Times, McKinsey & Company, and the U.S. Department of State.
Begin a Conversation
I welcome select inquiries from filmmakers, institutions, companies, and organizations interested in engaging story, leadership, and culture with depth, clarity, and responsibility.
For speaking, interviews, consulting, leadership development, executive producing, workshops, or creative collaboration, please get in touch.
