STORIES FOR A BETTER WORLD

  • Welcome to Digital Storytellers
  • Strategic Storytelling for Impact
  • Story Leadership
  • Storytelling Workshops
  • Film Production
  • Scribing & Illustration
  • Story Driven Experiences

We’re Digital Storytellers

Stories connect us and help us make sense of the world around us. In these challenging times, we can create a better world by telling stories that matter and shaping more inclusive narratives that hold a vision for the world as it is and as it could be.

We are on a mission to empower a wider community of purpose-driven leaders to harness the power of story and change systems for the better.

Let’s change the world together, using the power of story.

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STORY CONSULTS

Make sure your story is as strategic as it can be, and that it reaches your ideal audience with impact embedded right from the start.

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STORY LEADERSHIP

Harness the power of story for organisational and systems leadership, team engagement, culture building, and problem solving.

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WORKSHOPS & TRAINING

Learn how to find, make, edit, and share your stories using our simple yet powerful approach and tech you already have.

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FILM PRODUCTION

Engage and inspire your audiences by sharing a world-changing vision or a big idea – all in three minutes or less.

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LIVE SCRIBING & ILLUSTRATION

A picture is said to convey a thousand words. Bring your work to life through eye-catching visuals, iconography and illustration.

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STORYTELLING EXPERIENCES

Story has the power to move, connect, heal, and transform. Craft a story-driven experience for your team or community.

Why Now?

Times are changing. Business as usual is no longer an option. Our increasingly complex world requires a new paradigm, defined by new leadership, narrative intelligence and creative ways of problem solving.

Why Story?

As humans, we have always made sense of our world through story. It is how we connect with each other and build bridges of empathy and understanding. Our world needs that now, as much as ever.

Why Us?

Our team of purpose-driven storytellers are skilled at using story strategically to drive positive impact. We’ve been driving positive change using the power of narrative for close to decade.

Our Unique Approach

At Digital Storytellers, we know that stories are only as strong as the impact they create. Our simple yet powerful approach to impact storytelling helps organisations create meaningful change and puts the power of storytelling in your hands.

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STRATEGIC STORYTELLING

Over many years, we have developed a series of unique in-house tools for shaping and sharing impactful stories that create a positive impact.

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LEADING THROUGH STORY

Old modes of leadership will not take us where we need to go. The vast challenges of our time call for a new leadership; one driven by story.

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DEMOCRATISATION OF STORY

Our inclusive, ‘bottom-up’ approach is accessible, creates space for greater plurality, and a more diverse and meaningful collective narrative.

While numbers never tell the full story

In 10 years we’ve…

Told over
500

Stories

Served over
400

Organisations

Run over
250

Workshops

Taught over
5000

Storytellers

Across
25

Countries

and counting.

Will your story be next?

Introducing our unique storytelling tools

Available for free download, our simple yet powerful storytelling tools help you unlock your inner storyteller and craft compelling stories that make an impact.

The Story Canvas

THE STORY CANVAS

Based on the popular Business Canvas, download our signature Story Canvas for crafting compelling impact stories! It’s fun, free and takes just a few minutes.

Our online form will generate a PDF of your story and email it directly to you.

Check out The Story Canvas
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THE IMPACT STORYTELLING ROADMAP

Powerful change requires a strategic approach to impact storytelling. Identify your ideal audience, map content and impact objectives and chart your course for story success?

Download your free Impact Storytelling Campaign Roadmap below.

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Field of Stories

THE STORY MAPPING TOOL

We live in a field of stories. Explore common values or themes and weave a more inclusive, collective narrative. Find your identity, shape your ideal future or simply begin a dialogue.

Check out our free Story Mapping Tool and discover your field of stories.

Check out Story Mapping Toolkit

Take a look at some of our work

  • Case study: Showcasing local sustainability initiatives through story
  • Case Study: Bridging the Digital Divide Through Story With SAP
  • Case Study: From Evidence to Action with ANROWS
  • Case Study: A better world starts with better decisions each day – BizCubed
  • Case Study: Celebrating Excellence Through Story – Study NSW
  • Case Study: Scholars Leading Through Story – Australia Awards
  • Case Study: Taking the first bite out of the donut
  • Climate Storytellers – Making Your Climate Story Count
  • A ‘Story-Driven’ Process: Strategic Communication & Visioning
  • Another ‘SEWF’ccessful Forum – Social Enterprise World Forum 2021, Halifax
  • When the apprentices become the masters – Somali Storytellers Train-the-Trainer – Facilitator Upskilling
  • Workfront – Virtual Campfire Team Storytelling Session
  • Care for the land and it’ll care for you – Murray Landcare Online Storytelling Workshops
  • We Know Your Name But Not Your Story – Indigo Shire Council Community Storytelling Program
  • The World’s Deadliest Zoo Visit
  • “Education Gives You Freedom” – Go Foundation
  • First Nations Governance Forum 2018
  • Purpose 2018
  • “Let’s Move Forward Together” – Reos Partners
  • “Kia Ora Ortautahi!” – Social Enterprise World Forum 2017, Christchurch, NZ
  • “Changing The Rules: Doing Social Justice Philanthropy” – Reichstein Foundation
  • “Moving Forward Together” – Progress 2017
  • Greenpeace: NAIF, the four letter word that could play a huge role in the future of the Great Barrier Reef
  • “A Life of Opportunity” – Harmony Day Stories for Department of Social Services
  • “A Moment to Change the World” – The Sydney Peace Prize Story
  • “The Future Gets Real” – Leadership 2016
  • The (re)Generation Project
  • “A Lens To The World” – Link Story 2016
  • Act For Peace – The Ration Challenge
  • TDi Pacific Investment Readiness Story
  • The Social Benefit Bond – The Benevolent Society
  • “Open minds, disruptive ideas” – The Story of SW/TCH, Cure Brain Cancer Foundation
  • Cyclotron – Light the City
  • “When We Dream Together” – Progress 2015
  • The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
  • Team Wild
  • G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investment
  • Yammer
  • Community 21

 Organisations we’ve worked with

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