Story Telling Canvas
The Storytelling Canvas is a tool to help change agents craft compelling, human-centered narratives that connect the why of change to the heart of the people involved. It helps translate abstract strategy into meaningful, memorable stories.

Story Telling Canvas vs traditional thinking
Two different assumptions about how change should work.
Lean Change
Supports co-creation of evolving stories that reflect real experiences, helping people make sense of change as it unfolds. The canvas holds the output of a conversation.
Traditional Change Management
Used to align top-down messaging by defining key story parts—context, conflict, resolution—to support consistent communication from leadership.
The storytelling canvas is alternative to the strategic change canvas. It's designed to help people honour the past, accept the foreign element and to decide what action to take.[center][i]“everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth”[/i][/center] Great stories have a...
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