REFINING SOFT SKILLS INTO HARD VALUE

Guiding leaders and experts to build trust and influence through emotional intelligence and strategic storytelling. Because people follow and co-create with those who know how to connect.

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Logic doesn't move people. Connection does.

Wheather you’re leading transformation, building high-performing teams or scaling your influence, your competence is most probably not the bottleneck. Trust is. 

This is where emotional intelligence and storytelling become strategic. They build the connection that turns strategy into engagement, complexity into clarity, and authority into lasting influence. All skills you can develop.

Core Services

Leadership & trust

Build the emotional intelligence, trust, and communication that strengthen leadership at every level with our PURE™ and ALIGN™ framework. For leaders and founders, experts and technical sales professionals ready to inspire followership and drive collaboration.

Storytelling & Communication

Storytelling for change and culture.
From transformation narratives to everyday communication, we build story systems that align people, purpose, and progress. 

Expert positioning

Position your or your team's expertise with clarity and credibility to strengthen reputation, win better clients, and grow influence in your field.

About me

I’m an engineer turned strategist with a passion for the human side of business as well as creative writing. Connection is my guiding star and I help leaders and technical experts see what they don’t see themselves and develop the skills rooted in authenticity, integrity, and presence that make people follow and take action. 

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The story advantage

Stories creates connection, connection enables trust, trust produces outcomes. The science backs it up: when we share stories, our brains synchronize. The listener’s neural activity mirrors the storyteller’s, creating a shared experience. This is why storytelling connects leadership, vision, and people so powerfully, turning information into shared meaning and influence.

Storytelling services

Internal storytelling

Strengthen your employee branding with internal narratives. 

For change leaders and HR/Comms teams who need to make strategy, values, and culture tangible in everyday communication.

Change storytelling

Preparing leadership teams for successful AI adoption/digital transformations. 

We help leadership teams create he right story at the right time during the change process with our Storymatching framework.

Story bank

Build a story bank that turns everyday moments into strategic culture assets as a part of internal storytelling.

We help teams capture, organize, and share stories that make communication authentic, onboarding meaningful, and culture tangible.

Founder & leader advisory

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Without Pia, we would not be where we are today. Her direct and constructive feedback and advice has consistently been proven highly valuable. She is a dedicated and honest professional with a natural talent to see what is important and was key to building the fundament upon which the organisation now rests.

M Eriksson, CEO & Founder, Liminal Discovery

Let's start a conversation

to explore what storytelling or self-awareness and soft skills like recillience, discernment and general increased emotional fitness can do for your leadership abilites or your team.