Get people to listen, understand what matters, and do what comes next.
NarrativePros helps organizations find and fix the human conditions that keep important ideas, expertise, decisions, and practices from producing the result they should.
WE HELP WITH
Sometimes the presentation is the problem.
Sometimes it isn't.
More often, the presentation is where a larger breakdown becomes visible.
RECOGNIZABLE PATTERNS
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What needs to happen? Who needs to listen, understand, decide, buy, use, change, or follow through?
What happens instead? Where does the breakdown begin?
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Reduce what makes success less likely.
Unnecessary information · confusing structure · competing messages · distracting delivery · weak preparation · unclear responsibility · wasted effort · missing feedback
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Identify what is already helping — then make those strengths more deliberate and repeatable.
Useful expertise · strong relationships · existing trust · clear explanations · effective stories · good instincts · credible evidence · productive habits
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Only then add what is missing.
Most engagements need less added than people expect.
Coaching · rewriting · rehearsal · facilitated peer feedback · training · a redesigned meeting · a measurement system · AI-supported practice · ongoing support
You bring us the problem. Diagnosing the right intervention is part of our job.
You do not need to know whether this calls for coaching, consulting, training, a system change, or something else. We will find it together.
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COACHING
We clarify the point, remove preventable distractions, prepare for resistance, and rehearse under realistic pressure.
Get in touch →A presentation, pitch, board meeting, sales conversation, difficult discussion, keynote, or public appearance needs to work.
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CONSULTING
We examine the people, information, tools, relationships, and processes involved, identify where the intended value is being lost, and change the conditions causing it.
Get in touch →Meetings go nowhere. A rollout is ignored. People keep misunderstanding the same issue. A tool creates more work. Responsibility remains unclear.
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TRAINING AND EXPERTISE DEVELOPMENT
The work succeeds when one exceptional person is present — but quality drops when anyone else tries to deliver it.
We identify what makes the expertise work, then build the practice, feedback, measurement, and support that let more people apply it well.
Sometimes the answer is better writing. Sometimes it is a clearer visual. Sometimes people need practice. Sometimes none of those is the real problem. NarrativePros diagnoses which, then brings in the capability that matters.
Writing Consultants
Writing, editing, email, technical writing, message development, and AI prompt/output management.
Use when the bottleneck is language, content, reasoning, or written communication.
Clarity Quotient
Slides, pitch decks, presentation visuals, diagrams, and infographics.
Use when the bottleneck is visual explanation or supporting a spoken message.
Speaker Beaker
AI-supported coaching, rehearsal, practice simulation, and performance feedback.
Use when people need repeatable opportunities to practice and improve.
That may prove the value of the work. It also limits how far the work can travel.
We identify what makes the expertise work, then build the practice, feedback, measurement, and support that let more people apply it well.
The goal is not to create copies of the expert. It is to preserve the judgment, adaptability, standards, and human connection that make the expertise valuable — without reducing it to a script or a pale imitation.
WE HELP ORGANIZATIONS
Define good work. Practice it. Review it. Measure it. Make it part of how the organization works.
Guard against failure. Aim for excellence. Preserve judgment.
SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS
Center for Immunology
University of Minnesota
Masonic Cancer Center
University of Minnesota
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
University of Minnesota
Veterinary Cancer Society
BUSINESS LEADERS
S&P Global
3M
Lutheran Social Service
LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONALS
More than six accredited open-enrollment professional-development courses. Direct coaching and consulting for:
Faegre Benson
Dorsey
ARTS AND CULTURE
Guthrie Theater
Mixed Blood Theatre
A STATEWIDE NONPROFIT · COACHING
WHAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN
Leaders and front-line staff had to deliver benefit-event remarks strong enough to move a room to give.
WHERE IT WAS BREAKING DOWN
Presenters read fully written scripts that flattened their natural delivery. Panelists knew the work but were well outside their comfort zone on a stage.
WHAT WE CHANGED
Scripts became talking points. We coached staging, gesture, and breathing, built openings that pull an audience in, and gave panelists a practice partner for timing and tone before dress rehearsal.
EVIDENCE OF VALUE
The organization has brought us back for repeat engagements.
A UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER · CONSULTING & TRAINING
WHAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN
Researchers had to explain complex work clearly and persuasively to funders, collaborators, reviewers, and people outside their disciplines.
WHERE IT WAS BREAKING DOWN
Technical expertise did not automatically produce audience understanding, useful feedback, or consistent quality. Each researcher had to find the answer alone.
WHAT WE CHANGED
We helped create an ongoing system of instruction, practice, peer feedback, expert coaching, and leadership reinforcement that made presentation quality repeatable.
EVIDENCE OF VALUE
The work became a sustained multi-year program.
A MAJOR GLOBAL INDUSTRY CONFERENCE · COACHING
WHAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN
Analysts, engineers, and executives — many presenting in a second language — had to hold a senior global audience in rooms mixing deep specialists with generalists.
WHERE IT WAS BREAKING DOWN
Capable presenters arrived with dense, data-heavy decks and no single clear takeaway.
WHAT WE CHANGED
A repeatable method: storyboard each talk to one takeaway and three supports, one idea per slide, lean decks — then rehearse with native-language run-throughs and prepare for live Q&A.
EVIDENCE OF VALUE
The conference has invited us back across multiple years.
Organizations can now create more words, slides, summaries, recommendations, and training than people can absorb. NarrativePros uses AI where it helps people practice, think, decide, learn, or improve. We leave it out where it does not.
The technology supports the system. It is not the system.
People know what matters.
Experts transfer what they know.
Meetings produce decisions.
Training changes behavior.
Strong work doesn't depend on one exceptional person.
Important ideas survive the trip from intention to action.
Tell us what people need to understand or do, what keeps going wrong, when it matters, and who is involved.
Whether this calls for coaching, consulting, training, a system change, or something simpler is our problem to solve. You do not need to diagnose it first.
Bring us the problem, not the brief.
Email us to start a conversation.
hello@narrativepros.comWe typically reply within a day. In your first message, tell us what needs to happen and what is getting in the way.
