THE STORY MAPPING EXPERTS
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We deliver best-in-class creative story mapping Training, Tools, and Expertise – empowering people and organizations to vastly improve their creative process, productivity, and results.
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Trusted by top creatives and brands, including:
Map Your Story’s evolved Creative Story Mapping (CSM) is a game-changing, professional-grade approach to creative development and productivity.
Our one-of-a-kind methods have fueled creative excellence across workflows, project types, and industries, including 27 of the Fortune 100 companies.
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Hello world!
May 27, 2023
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How it works
Intuitive, Easy-to-Learn and Remarkably Effective
Map Your Story is a uniquely powerful approach to the creative process, based on creative story mapping and simplified agile methodology.
It helps creators develop general concepts into specific, idea-by-idea “Story Maps” that empower better and faster project results.
5 Basic Steps to Map Your Story
Review your draft story map. Re-order and revise your cards – and repeat MANY times!
Go back and Repeat the previous step until you have a refined, idea-by-idea story map that clearly leads to your objectives. (You’ll spend most of your time in this Create-Map-Review-Revise cycle!)
Review your draft story map. Re-order and revise your cards – and repeat MANY times!
Go back and Repeat the previous step until you have a refined, idea-by-idea story map that clearly leads to your objectives. (You’ll spend most of your time in this Create-Map-Review-Revise cycle!)
Review your draft story map. Re-order and revise your cards – and repeat MANY times!
Go back and Repeat the previous step until you have a refined, idea-by-idea story map that clearly leads to your objectives. (You’ll spend most of your time in this Create-Map-Review-Revise cycle!)
Review your draft story map. Re-order and revise your cards – and repeat MANY times!
Go back and Repeat the previous step until you have a refined, idea-by-idea story map that clearly leads to your objectives. (You’ll spend most of your time in this Create-Map-Review-Revise cycle!)
Review your draft story map. Re-order and revise your cards – and repeat MANY times!
Go back and Repeat the previous step until you have a refined, idea-by-idea story map that clearly leads to your objectives. (You’ll spend most of your time in this Create-Map-Review-Revise cycle!)
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Benefits
Power Up Your Creative Process with Transformative Benefits
our 10|10|10 MANTRA embodies our mission to ignore your creative productivity, unlock value, and empower your excellence — resulting in game-changing IMMEDIATE GAINS and LASTING BENEFITS
10m
Time Gained
We’re dedicated to saving creators a minimum of 10 minutes for every hour of creative work.
10x
Value Added
We strive to make every interaction, service, and product return at least 10 times the value of its initial cost.
10%
Impact Delivered
We direct 10 percent of proceeds to support creative entrepreneurship
Meet Grady
Meet Map Your Story’s Founding Story Guide
After becoming established as a top-tier creator and creative leader, company founder Grady Hall started Map Your Story with a mission to help others discover and achieve their own personal and professional excellence.
Highlights include serving as Executive Creative Director of Guillermo Del Toro’s transmedia studio, Director-Producer of Sam Raimi’s Spartacus series, and Founding Director of a pioneering concept-to-delivery content company - as well as extensive work as a Writer, Story Analyst, and Creative Executive for Film and TV projects.
Highlights include serving as Executive Creative Director of Guillermo Del Toro’s transmedia studio, Director-Producer of Sam Raimi’s Spartacus series, and Founding Director of a pioneering concept-to-delivery content company - as well as extensive work as a Writer, Story Analyst, and Creative Executive for Film and TV projects.
Highlights include serving as Executive Creative Director of Guillermo Del Toro’s transmedia studio, Director-Producer of Sam Raimi’s Spartacus series, and Founding Director of a pioneering concept-to-delivery content company - as well as extensive work as a Writer, Story Analyst, and Creative Executive for Film and TV projects.
Highlights include serving as Executive Creative Director of Guillermo Del Toro’s transmedia studio, Director-Producer of Sam Raimi’s Spartacus series, and Founding Director of a pioneering concept-to-delivery content company - as well as extensive work as a Writer, Story Analyst, and Creative Executive for Film and TV projects.
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WORK YOUR WAY
Thrive in any platform, workflow, or project
Not only does the Map Your Story method work inside your current workflow — it helps it work better! Whether online, on-site, or hybrid, it maximizes productivity for creators and teams of all sizes.
The Map Your Story method is not an app. It’s a comprehensive creative approach that adds a suite of new productive creativity skills to your workflow. No new apps to install. No software licenses to buy. It thrives with what you already use!
The Map Your Story method is not an app. It’s a comprehensive creative approach that adds a suite of new productive creativity skills to your workflow. No new apps to install. No software licenses to buy. It thrives with what you already use!
The Map Your Story method is not an app. It’s a comprehensive creative approach that adds a suite of new productive creativity skills to your workflow. No new apps to install. No software licenses to buy. It thrives with what you already use!
The Map Your Story method is not an app. It’s a comprehensive creative approach that adds a suite of new productive creativity skills to your workflow. No new apps to install. No software licenses to buy. It thrives with what you already use!
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