• Duration

    1 hour

  • Format

    Live via Zoom

  • DATE / Time

    Thursday, August 27th - 10am-11am PDT

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    Story as Infrastructure:
    An Introduction to Organizational Storytelling - August 2026
    (Zoom) 

    Most organizations don’t lack stories.
    They lack shared story logic.

    This workshop is a short, live introduction to a different way of understanding storytelling inside organizations — not as messaging or content, but as infrastructure.

    If story decisions inside your team feel harder than they should, this session is meant to help you see why.

    Not to fix it.
    Not to solve it.
    But to clarify what’s actually happening beneath the surface.

    This is a live, participatory conversation with room to reflect, ask questions, and notice how these patterns may already be showing up inside your organization.
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    Take a Deeper Look

    What This Workshop Is

    This live session is designed as an orientation, not an outcome.

    Together, we’ll explore:
    • Story as an organizational system, not a branding exercise
    • Why misalignment shows up even when everyone means well
    • How teams drift into competing narratives without realizing it
    • The difference between telling stories and deciding them

    This is about shared language and shared understanding — not deliverables.

    Think of it as a diagnostic lens you can carry back into your work.

    What This Workshop Is Not

    To be clear, this workshop does not:

    • Produce a finished brand or organizational story

    • Teach messaging formulas, templates, or frameworks

    • Replace deeper organizational or alignment work

    • Fix misalignment in a single session

    • Focus on personal branding or inspiration


    If you’re looking for outputs, tactics, or a polished narrative by the end, this will likely feel incomplete — intentionally so.


    Who This Is For

    This workshop is for:

    • People working inside organizations (nonprofits, mission-driven teams, small orgs)

    • Leaders, communications staff, and program teams navigating competing priorities

    • Folks who feel story decisions are harder than they should be

    • Teams experiencing narrative drift across departments or audiences


    This workshop is not for:

    • People looking for copywriting or content help

    • Solo creators focused on personal brand storytelling

    • Anyone wanting quick templates or tactical takeaways

    • Folks expecting a finished story at the end of the session


    This isn’t about exclusion — it’s about fit.


    The Core Tension We’ll Name

    Most organizations already have plenty of stories.


    What they don’t have is agreement about:

    • Which stories matter

    • Who they’re for

    • And how decisions get made when priorities collide


    That’s when you start to see symptoms like:

    • Different teams telling different versions of the work

    • Messaging that shifts depending on the audience

    • Funders, programs, and leadership pulling in different directions

    • Story decisions that feel reactive instead of intentional


    We won’t rush past this tension.

    We’ll sit with it long enough to understand it.


    What You’ll Leave With

    This workshop is designed for awareness, not transformation.


    Participants will:

    • Gain a new way of understanding story inside organizations

    • Have language for naming common storytelling breakdowns

    • Better understand why misalignment persists, even with good intentions

    • Feel clearer about what kind of work is actually required next


    No building.
    No creating.
    Just clearer seeing.


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    Meet the instructor

    Keith Battle (he/him)

    Keith founded One Tiny Problem to teach in a way that feels calm, clear, and human. He meets learners where they are, builds confidence before complexity, and uses tools only in service of clarity—not performance. The goal is steady progress, without shame or urgency.
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