The organization with big moments coming
Raises, launches, transitions, the keynote that matters. When the calendar holds moments where the story has to be right, a standing partner beats a scramble every time.
THE WORK · THE STANDING PARTNERSHIP
Storyteller in Residence
Every other path has an ending. This one has a rhythm. I stay at the table over time as the ongoing narrative partner for your leadership, so your story is tended the way your finances are: continuously, by someone whose job it is.
The Fit
Who keeps a storyteller at the table
Residence is for organizations that have stopped treating story as a project and started treating it as infrastructure.
The leadership that wants the work to compound
One engagement improves a story. A residence improves the people who tell it. Over seasons, your leaders stop borrowing the language and start authoring it themselves.
The Shape
The rhythm of a residence
A residence is not a fifth kind of work. It is the other four pillars of the Narrative Stack, run continuously instead of episodically.
The recurring read
A Coherence read on a regular cycle, so we always know where the story stands before the year asks anything of it. The trajectory becomes the answer when your board asks what this work returns.
The moments
Resonance work around launches and the rooms that matter. Legibility work ahead of board meetings, raises, and the external moments where the story faces strangers.
The seasons
Conviction work through leadership transitions and the harder passages, where the question is not what the organization says but what its leaders still believe.
The Outcome
What a residence builds
Narrative as a function rather than an event. Leaders who sound like themselves in every room. Artifacts that stay aligned without a rescue mission before each big moment. And a partner who knows your story well enough to notice it drifting before your audience does.
Nothing Dead-Ends
Something to read, something to do
Read · The whole shelf
Residence organizations usually hold all three: the book for newcomers, the go-between for the busy, the Field Guide for the leaders doing the work. The reading meets each person where they are.
Do · Everything above, in rhythm
Debriefs for new leaders. Sprints when a new chapter demands one. Offsites as the annual checkpoint. Inside a residence, the paths stop being a menu and become a year.
Who is tending your story between the moments that test it, and what is it doing while no one watches?
Yours in Narrative · Rod
Talk about the table
I hold a small number of residences at a time, by design. If your organization is ready for narrative as infrastructure, the conversation starts the way they all do: with where your story stands today.