Strategies & Stories

Make better sense of business, media, and work.

A weekly email about the ideas, strategies, stories, and human behavior shaping the way we work and communicate—with something useful to take away from each one.

Make sense of change. Then do something meaningful with it.

Change is easy to notice and much harder to understand. I draw on 15 years across strategy, storytelling, media, business, and teaching to explore what's changing, why it matters, and what we can do with it.

Strategies & Stories connects ideas across disciplines to help you see familiar problems differently—and turn insight into meaningful action.

What you'll explore

Why power isn't really about control—it's about dependence.

Why exposure isn't enough: what matters is mattering.

How to use strategic frameworks to make ideas more memorable.

Hi, I'm Sam.

A strategist, storyteller, producer, and educator exploring how people and organizations turn insight into meaningful action.

But it hasn't always been like this. It's been a long road. And I'm still walking it.

To help, I go back to a few fundamental questions: What are we trying to accomplish? Who are we trying to reach? What matters to them? What should we do differently? And how will we know if it worked?

My writing draws on 15 years of creative execution, business analysis, and teaching to help you do the same. Consider: the most successful aren't the biggest, baddest, or most specialized. They're the most adaptable. So let's learn how to pivot toward meaning and leverage change for success...together.

350+

Podcast episodes produced

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