The leader whose story is just waking up
Your result said the story is real and still fragile. You can feel it working in some rooms and disappearing in others. You want to know which thread to pull first.
THE WORK · THE FIRST CONVERSATION
The Narrative Debrief
You took the assessment. A score came back, a zone, a short read from me. The Debrief is where we sit with what came back and find the story underneath it. Ninety minutes, you and I, no slides between us.
The Fit
Who sits down for this
The Debrief is the lightest way to put a second set of eyes on your story. People arrive here from every zone, though it does its best work for two kinds of leaders.
The organization testing the water
Your team is not ready to commit to a longer engagement, and should not be, yet. One honest conversation tells you whether this work fits before anyone signs anything.
The Shape
What the ninety minutes hold
Every engagement I run follows the same spine: Source, Examine, Author. The Debrief walks it in miniature.
Source
We start with what you brought: your result, the one question you answered yourself, and the moments where your story has been landing or going quiet.
Examine
We name the one story doing the most work in your life right now, for you or against you. Most people have never said it out loud. That is the hinge of the hour.
Author
You leave with that story named, a short written read from me within a few days, and a clear sense of which path fits next, if any does.
The Outcome
What you walk away holding
One named story, in your words, not mine. A written follow-up that captures what we found. And an honest recommendation. Sometimes the recommendation is a Sprint or the Lab. Sometimes it is the book and sixty days of your own attention. I will tell you which, plainly.
Nothing Dead-Ends
Something to read, something to do
Read · The Narrative Edge
The full argument, for the reader who wants the whole work before going further. If the Debrief names your story, the book shows you the company it keeps.
Do · The next conversation
If the Debrief surfaces work worth doing together, we talk about what that looks like. If it does not, you still leave with the story named. Either way, you leave with something.
Which story is doing the most work in your life right now, and can you honestly say you wrote it?
Yours in Narrative · Rod
Start with the conversation
If you arrived here from your result email, you already know your zone. Bring it. If you have not taken the assessment yet, start there. It takes five minutes and it gives us both something real to sit with.