# Storyminers

> Storyminers gets your leadership team to agree on what business you’re in and where it goes next, then makes that future real enough to test before you fund it.

Storyminers, Inc. · Atlanta, working globally · mike@storyminers.com · +1 404-229-5809

## Start here
- [Home](https://storyminers.com/): Storyminers gets your leadership team to agree on what business you’re in and where it goes next, then makes that future real enough to test before you fund it.
- [Approach](https://storyminers.com/approach/): How a Storyminers engagement actually runs, start to finish: the working sessions, the deliverables, the pricing, and what we can and can’t promise.
- [Client Stories](https://storyminers.com/client-stories/): Eleven organizations that went first — McDonald’s, Transitions Optical, iPay, LeasePlan and more. What blocked them, what Mike did, and every number sourced.
- [About Mike Wittenstein](https://storyminers.com/about/): Mike Wittenstein, strategy advisor to owners and CEOs of $20 million to $2 billion companies. Thirty years, $3.2 billion in documented client value.
- [Ideas (the field guide, position pieces, talks, and papers, in one place)](https://storyminers.com/ideas/): Everything Storyminers has published, in one place: the Change the Frame field guide, position pieces for boards, talk recaps, and the papers behind them.

## Ways of working together
- [Leadership Alignment Workshop](https://storyminers.com/leadership-alignment-workshop/): One to three working sessions that end with your leadership team pointed in one direction, each leader able to say it in their own words.
- [Strategic Advisory](https://storyminers.com/strategic-advisory/): A standing senior advisor for the decisions that are hard to walk back: worked in session, tested from a second angle, announced once, not walked back twice.
- [Independent Director](https://storyminers.com/board-work/): An independent-director candidate who brings foresight to boards built for oversight. Three questions, asked early enough to preserve choice.
- [From Oversight to Foresight: a board's work in an age of AI (a position piece)](https://storyminers.com/oversight-to-foresight/): AI multiplies a board’s options, not the quality of its judgment. Three questions, one rule, and five things a board can hold management to. Every claim footnoted.
- [Speaking](https://storyminers.com/speaking/): Storyminers keynotes and workshops: 500+ paid stages, 24 countries, English and Portuguese. Six talks on strategy, AI, and alignment, rebuilt for your audience.
- [Coaching](https://storyminers.com/coaching/): One-on-one coaching from Storyminers for leaders growing into a bigger job. $9,000 a month for a CEO, $4,500 for other leaders. The first hour is free.
- [Book a free hour (Chemistry Check)](https://storyminers.com/chemistry-check/): Book a free one-hour Chemistry Check: a working conversation on the future you're trying to create. No prep, no deck, no pitch. Or just email or call Mike directly.
- [Refer Mike (for the people who make introductions)](https://storyminers.com/refer-mike/): Know a leader who's stuck in front of something big? This page gives you the words, a one-pager to attach, and what happens after you introduce them to Mike.

## The field guide
- [Change the Frame — a free field guide](https://storyminers.com/change-the-frame/): A Storyminers field guide: how leaders open futures others can't yet see. Six real stories from thirty years of strategy work. Free, about thirty minutes, no email needed.
- [Change the Frame — the field guide in Brazilian Portuguese (edição em português)](https://storyminers.com/change-the-frame-pt/): Change the Frame, um guia de campo da Storyminers: como líderes abrem futuros que os outros ainda não conseguem ver. Histórias reais de trinta anos de trabalho com estratégia.

## Trust and record
- [Sources (every claim traced)](https://storyminers.com/sources/): Where every number on this site comes from, what kind of source it is, and which figures are deliberately imprecise because a sharper one could not be traced.
- [How We Use AI](https://storyminers.com/how-we-use-ai/): How Storyminers uses AI on this site and in client work: the tools named with their jobs, what never touches client material, and where judgment stays human.
- [The Storyminers Worldview](https://storyminers.com/worldview/): Where Storyminers stands on people, AI, money, governance, and the value of a life — written down, with every source named.
- [Privacy, Cookies, Terms](https://storyminers.com/legal/): Storyminers’ privacy policy, cookie policy, and website terms and conditions, on one page.

The full field guide is also a free PDF: https://storyminers.com/assets/Storyminers_Change%20the%20Frame%20field%20guide%20v1.2.1.pdf
The Brazilian Portuguese edition is also a free PDF: https://storyminers.com/assets/Storyminers_Change%20the%20Frame%20field%20guide%20v1.2.1%20(pt-BR).pdf