Create your FutureStory by Listening to your History.
While you may be peering into the future, it's equally important to look back to your past -- at how your business started, why it was created, the challenges previous leaders faced, and lessons that inform your future. Shane Meeker and Greg Icenhower can help you turn hindsight into foresight by discovering stories in your history that can help create the story of your future.
How Can You Help Me?
Through oral histories, archival research, and facilitated FutureStory workshops, we will help you:
- Discover your business DNA and sharpen your corporate reputation
- Capture the stories that made your business the success it is today
- Distill insights and business lessons from past victories and failures
- Translate your history into a FutureStory that can guide strategy, shape culture, build confidence and provide inspiration
- Build the structure and systems to archive your past and present for future leaders
Every Hindsight-to-Foresight engagement includes a FutureStory narrative and customized map showing linkages between your organization's past, present and future.
Why Should I Hire You?
Credible
Shane is P&G's official company historian and chief storyteller -- and the author of StoryMythos: A Movie Guide to Better Business Stories. He consults with companies and brands on how to turn their history into future success. Shane and Greg worked together to mine P&G's history and shape its corporate brand, now in use worldwide.
Actionable
Greg has drawn from history time and time again to help CEOs and other leaders distill insights from the past that inform and inspire the future -- with a deep belief that "no organization can afford to forget its prior knowledge."
Results
We will help you discover the stories from your organization's past that are most relevant to the present and future and use those stories to inspire and influence the actions of your most important audiences.
Hindsight to Foresight
Hindsight
No organization can afford to forget its own prior knowledge. Wins are elusive and mistakes are costly, too costly to repeat. But leaders who treasure their company's history, who mine the past for clues to the future, are leaders best positioned to win.
Are you a curator of your company's history who uses the past to help people see and win in the future?
Insight
Your company's past is more than a timeline. It's a lifeline if you're able to distill relevant insights about the future from the successes and failures of the past. Great leaders think like the best historians. They pull the past forward by seeing what's visible but not seen.
Are you creating the capability in yourself and your team to see the future through the past?
Foresight
No one can predict the future, but successful leaders know how to use insights from their past to tell stories about the future -- stories that help people see possibilities and the role they want to play in making them a winning reality.
Are you telling stories about your company's future that inspire confidence and action?
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Let's talk about how Leader's Voice Communications can help you get through - and get results.