Facilitation & Consulting

Recognise the Moment

There are situations where conventional tools — strategy frameworks, team workshops, coaching models — produce diminishing returns. Not because they're wrong, but because the real obstacle is the story beneath the surface. That's where narrative work begins.

A merger or restructuring is technically complete, but two cultures are still pulling in opposite directions — and no one can quite name why.

A leadership team can't align on direction. Every conversation circles back to the same impasse. The problem isn't information — it's interpretation.

An organisation's founding narrative no longer matches its current reality. People are performing coherence they don't feel.

A change initiative keeps stalling despite genuine commitment. The obstacle is an unexamined assumption about what change means here.

An individual leader is navigating a transition — a new role, a strategic pivot, a loss of mandate — and needs to construct a new sense of direction.

Ways of working

Four Formats, One Approach

Every engagement is tailored. These four formats describe the most common ways we work together — they are starting points, not fixed packages.

One-on-One Coaching & Consulting

Individual work with a leader, founder or professional navigating a significant transition. Sessions are structured around narrative inquiry — understanding the stories that are shaping your choices, and expanding the field of what's possible.

For

Leaders, executives and professionals in transition or strategic inflection points

Team & Group Facilitation

Structured facilitation for leadership teams, working groups or cross-functional communities. Designed to surface the competing narratives within a group, create shared understanding and open new directions for collaboration.

For

Teams navigating change, conflict or strategic misalignment

Organisational Accompaniment

Longer-term process support for organisations working through sustained transition. Rather than a one-off intervention, this is ongoing presence — tracking the narrative landscape as it shifts, and supporting coherence across time.

For

Organisations managing multi-phase change, restructuring or strategic renewal

Process Design & Advisory

A focused engagement — typically one to three sessions — to design a specific process, workshop or intervention. You bring the context and the question; I bring the narrative methodology and process architecture.

For

Teams or consultants who need narrative expertise for a specific moment or event

The methodology

The Approach

"The goal is not to replace one narrative with another — but to widen the field of meaning so that action becomes more deliberate and grounded."

Narrative as a structural force

Stories are not decoration. They are the frameworks through which people interpret situations, assign responsibility, predict outcomes and decide what's possible. In organisations, these frameworks operate largely below the surface — as assumptions, habits of interpretation, and shared understandings that go unexamined.

Narrative practice makes these frameworks visible. Not to critique them, but to work with them — intentionally, and with care for the people whose lives and work they shape.

Systemic and relational

INP's approach is grounded in systemic thinking. Every narrative exists in relation to others — it is maintained by patterns of interaction, reinforced by institutional structures, and contested by people with different vantage points. Effective narrative work attends to these relational dynamics, not just to individual stories.

This means the work is never purely cognitive. It is embodied, contextual, and always in dialogue with the specific system we're working in.

Transition as the context

INP works specifically in contexts of transition — moments when existing narratives are under pressure. These are not moments of failure. They are moments of potential, where new possibilities can be deliberately constructed rather than accidentally stumbled into.

The work is to support that construction: with rigour, with humility, and with a deep respect for the complexity of the systems and people involved.

Right fit

Who This Is For

Narrative work is not for every context. It is most powerful when there is genuine complexity, genuine willingness to examine assumptions, and genuine openness to what might emerge from that examination.

NGOs, Foundations & Public Sector

Organisations working on complex social challenges, often navigating between mission and operational reality, between internal culture and external mandate.

Mission drift or strategic reorientation
Culture change after leadership transition
Stakeholder narratives in conflict
Impact communication that doesn't land

Organisations in Transition

Small to medium organisations navigating strategic change — mergers, restructurings, leadership succession, or a fundamental shift in how they understand their purpose.

Merger integration where cultures aren't aligning
Strategic pivot that isn't landing internally
Teams in prolonged conflict or stagnation
Organisational identity in question

Individual Leaders & Executives

Professionals navigating a significant personal or professional transition — a new role, a loss of mandate, a strategic fork in the road — who need more than conventional coaching offers.

New leadership role, unclear mandate
Career transition at a senior level
Loss of clarity about direction or purpose
Recurring patterns that conventional tools haven't shifted

What others say

In Their Own Words

Working with Ana-Laura helped our leadership team see the story we had been telling ourselves about the restructuring — and understand why it was making everything harder than it needed to be. The shift that followed was both practical and profound.

Dr. Markus Feldmann

Director of Strategy, European Public Sector

I came in sceptical about narrative work. I left with a completely different understanding of why our change initiative had been stalling for eighteen months — and a clear sense of what to do about it.

Claudia Herrera

Head of People & Culture, International NGO

How it begins

Three Simple Steps

Getting started is designed to be simple and low-stakes. There is no commitment required until both of us are confident it's the right fit.

You Reach Out

Use the contact form or email directly. A few lines about your context and what you're navigating is enough — no lengthy brief required at this stage.

We Have a Conversation

A free 30-minute call to understand your situation, answer your questions, and sense whether there's a genuine fit. No sales pitch — just an honest conversation.

I Put Together a Proposal

If there's a fit, I'll send a tailored proposal — format, scope, timeline and investment — specific to your context. You decide whether to proceed.

The first conversation is always free. INP works with a small number of clients at any one time — this ensures the quality and depth of engagement that the work requires.