Strategic Storytelling Consulting
Most organizations know that AUTHENTIC STORIES MATTER. Fewer know how to design the conditions that make them possible.
Building Narrative & Interview Architecture Requires
Understanding, not just market researching, underrepresented populations
Building rapport and trust with the people you serve
Structuring tailored interviews that elicit authentic stories
Creating the conditions that produce compelling and effective content
Enabling emotional authenticity on camera
Typical production companies can’t do that.
Mission-driven OrgDev experts can.
Inherent in this approach is the enhancement of organizations’ capacity in positive youth development, behavioral science approaches, ethical and participatory storytelling, media literacy, psychoeducational strategies, and trauma-informed practices crucial for fostering stronger engagement with the people you serve.
The content that results from these strategies is
what unlocks funding and showcases impact.
Organizations often struggle with:
Wanting authentic youth stories, but not knowing how to thoughtfully evoke and capture them.
Interviews that feel flat, performative, or overly polished.
Staff who care deeply, but lack training in trauma-informed or participatory approaches.
Production partners who understand cameras, but not people.
Stories that technically “work,” but fail to connect or inspire action
Our consulting addresses those gaps — before the camera ever turns on.
Building Agency Capacity to Empower Storytelling
Depending on your needs, this work may include:
Advising on story strategy for campaigns, fundraising, or internal culture
Helping organizations align narrative, mission, and audience
Supporting production teams by shaping the human side of the process
Designing trauma-informed interview frameworks
Developing ethical storytelling guidelines and practices
Training staff and facilitators on participatory media approaches
At the core of our approaches is a simple belief:
The goal isn’t better stories.
It’s better systems for telling them.
This work is particularly well suited to:
Youth-serving nonprofits.
Mentorship and scholarship programs.
Education and leadership development organizations.
Foundations and funders supporting youth voice.
Teams seeking thoughtful, systems-aware approaches to storytelling.
This is often the first way organizations engage our work, and can stand alone or serve as a foundation for deeper creative collaboration.
Our consulting work has resulted in the development of proprietary engagement methodologies, including Community Promise and Impact Generation.
Meaningful stories don’t come from extraction — they come from relationship, care, and design.
Our role is to help organizations slow down, listen more carefully, and build storytelling strategies that honor the people they serve while improving ways to enhance fund raising and meeting institutional goals.
Designed for Multiple Outcomes
Nonprofit and mission-driven organizations rarely have the luxury of running separate initiatives for engagement, marketing, staff training, and development.
We design storytelling frameworks that accomplish multiple strategic goals at once.
A single implementation can:
• Strengthen trust and engagement with your focus populations.
• Increase internal staff capacity and narrative clarity.
• Generate funder-ready content that demonstrates measurable impact.
• Build long-term brand credibility in the communities you serve.
• Align mission, messaging, and outcomes into one coherent story system.
When engagement is intentionally designed, the returns compound.
Signature
Methodologies
The Community Promise Model
A strategic community-engagement methodology designed to transform participation into powerful, campaign-ready storytelling.
At its core is a high-visibility film production event — structured to attract participation, build trust organically, and generate authentic content in a single implementation.
Participation is framed as:
A casting call.
A paid creative opportunity.
A social media documentary experience.
Not a lecture.
Not a health fair.
Not an institutional presentation.
Participants show up for the film.
Trust is built in the process.
Content emerges organically.
Brand credibility grows
without being forced.
One Event. Multiple Returns.
A single Community Promise implementation generates:
• Experiences participants remember and associate with your organization long after the event.
• Authentic, community-led content designed for digital reach.
• Peer-to-peer credibility that strengthens engagement.
• Funder-ready stories that clearly demonstrate lived impact.
When participation feels meaningful, the ripple effects extend far beyond the camera.
“Kenny makes the work appear effortless in spite of the sometimes hard to engage populations with which he works.”
“I am grateful I got to witness this work. If you care about community storytelling, healing, and meaningful impact, pay attention to Connected Health Solutions. I will absolutely be following what they build next.”
Paul Skye Lehrman