AB Narrative Studio
Your story is the strategy.
AB Narrative Studio offers strategic communications consulting for purpose-led founders, executives, and organizations who can't afford to be misunderstood. We help you define your core narrative so it can carry through every layer of your brand.
THE STUDIO
When the narrative is right, everything works. Funding conversations land. Partnerships open. Leadership transitions hold. Content stops feeling like guesswork.
Most organizations do not have a communications problem. Their story has simply not caught up with where they actually are. AB Narrative Studio closes that gap. We build the narrative foundation that becomes your source of truth across every platform, proposal, and room your organization walks into.
This is strategic work, not content production. The goal is a narrative so clear it carries itself.
What Changes When We Work Together
Before
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Your organization's story sounds different depending on who is telling it
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Proposals and pitches are not capturing the full weight of what you have built
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Content is being produced but it is not moving the right people
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Leadership speaks one way, the website says another
After
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One narrative that every team member can speak from
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Messaging that holds in a funder meeting, a media interview, and a partnership proposal
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Content that flows from a single foundation
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Leadership that walks into rooms already understood
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The story finally matches the work
How the Work Is Delivered
TIER 1: DEFINE
TIER 2: ACTIVATE
Narrative Audit: A standalone diagnostic for organizations and founders who need to know exactly where their story is losing authority. You walk away with a written gap assessment, a 90-minute strategic working session, and a blueprint on how to move forward. Three spots available each quarter.
Narrative Package: For organizations ready to rebuild from the ground up. This is the full engagement, which includes consulting, training, and implementation built around your specific moment. Scope and investment determined in discovery session.
Every engagement starts with a conversation.
Your story is the strategy.
OUR CLIENTS
Our work is for:
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Organizations whose mission have evolved but story lives in a prior season.
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The executive whose team produces content but it's not landing with the right people.
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Nonprofits or associations navigating a rebrand, leadership change, or policy shift.
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Founders who need their language to finally their impact.
Every engagement starts somewhere. Here is where ours began.
Two founders put their narrative to work within days of receiving it.
One landed a $5,000 speaking engagement. Another received a five-month webinar series.
ABOUT ME
I started AB Narrative Studio because the most capable leaders I have ever known were being undersold by their own words. They had all the credibility. But no one had ever helped them build language that matched the size of what they had actually built.
It’s costly to get the words wrong. I produced news at NBCUniversal, where every word in live and recorded scripts had to land or the audience would change the channel. I served as a communications leader and national spokesperson at FEMA, I also led communication programs and offices at the FDA, and the Federal Highway Administration, communicating on behalf of the federal government during some of the most consequential crises this country has faced.
AB Narrative Studio exists because that same standard, every word earning its place, belongs in the hands of the founders and companies who are doing the most important work and have the least narrative infrastructure around their story.
When you work with the Studio, you work directly with me. You get strategic rigor, storytelling instinct, and someone who will listen before any word is ever written. That is the standard I built this on and it is the standard every engagement is held to.
-Alexandria Barnes
LET'S FIND THE RIGHT WORDS
On this call, I will:
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Get clear on where your organization is and where it is trying to go
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Determine whether narrative strategy is the right next move
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Map out what working together looks like
Every engagement starts with a conversation.