Our insights - The Storytellers

Storytelling 19 September 2018

The real millennial story

It’s a messy business, the work of intergenerational definition. Almost impossible to do in real-time, the work falls latterly to the older cohort – tasked with setting the parameters that...

Strategic Narrative 5 September 2018

Our strategic narrative: practising what we preach

There’s a saying that you can tell a cobbler by his shoes, implying that he is so busy he has little time to address his own footwear. In the same...

Strategic Narrative 30 August 2018

Narrative and resilience in the age of acceleration

When Mayor de Blasio issued a cap to licenced drivers in New York city in August 2018, his language was definitive. Uber and Lyft, and any other ride hailing app...

Visions of the Future 22 August 2018

Visions of the Future: Artificial Intelligence

6thDecember, 2017: What can you do in twenty-four hours? Navigate your car, eyes fatigue-filled and mind preoccupied, through the London traffic; send a dozen important emails; make your way, anticipation augmenting, down...

Leadership 9 August 2018

Orchestrating with stories

“Stories are a way to capture the relationships between things.” – Gregory Bateson We live in complex times: organisations are constantly changing, teams are more diverse by the minute. And...

Article 2 August 2018

The 3Ms: shifting the culture of an entire country

When it comes to shifting culture, here at The Storytellers we know that continuously providing the ‘3Ms’ – motivation, means and momentum – is absolutely critical towards making real change...

Visions of the Future 25 July 2018

Visions of the Future: Cannabis Legalisation

12th July, 2018: Consider: you, heart throbbing, fingers clenched tightly over keys and cold cash, cautiously glancing around a lamplit alley. Silhouetted in a corner is one ominous hooded figure:...

Article 19 July 2018

Creating your own cultural revolution

‘Marks and Spencer needs a cultural revolution’ said the Sunday Times. In an interview with Chairman Archie Norman, he remarked that many ‘competent people, smart people… the glitterati of the...

Film 18 July 2018

Storytelling: to provide all people

To celebrate the 70th birthday of the National Health Service (NHS), BBC Wales produced an emotional film named ‘To provide all people’. The poetic script weaves together real-life stories of...