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Whole Story Living®
Human-Centered Communication for a Noisy, Automated World
Whole Story Living®: A Framework for Meaning, Clarity, and Trust
We are living in a moment shaped by algorithms, automation, and constant acceleration. Communication is faster than ever and often emptier. Leaders and organizations feel pressure to say more, show up more, and optimize constantly, while struggling to communicate what actually matters.
Whole Story Living® is a human-centered framework that helps people slow down, reconnect with lived experience, and communicate with intention.
Grounded in storytelling, communication research, and real-world leadership practice, this work helps individuals and organizations:
- Clarify what they stand for
- Make sense of complex work
- Communicate with credibility and care
- Stay human in the age of AI
This work is about making meaning visible and communicating it in ways people can trust.
Speaking
Human-Centered Communication for a Noisy, Automated World
Meg Adams delivers engaging, research-informed keynotes that help audiences rethink how communication, power, and perspective shape leadership and culture—especially in moments of change, uncertainty, or transition.
Her talks blend storytelling, communication research, and lived experience to help audiences:
- Communicate with greater clarity and confidence
- Understand how stories shape culture, trust, and influence
- Reframe leadership away from performance and toward presence
- Stay human and grounded in the age of AI and automation
Meg’s keynotes are reflective, practical, and resonant—designed to give audiences language and insight they can carry back into their work immediately.
Best-Fit Audiences
Meg’s keynotes are especially well suited for:
- Women leaders and women-centered leadership audiences
- Educators and higher education communities
- Mission-driven and nonprofit organizations
- Healthcare, social services, and helping professions
- Leadership teams and professional associations
- Organizations navigating change or cultural shift
Meg’s keynotes invite audiences to slow down, examine the stories shaping their work, and lead and communicate with greater clarity, confidence, and care.
Courses
Learning Experiences for Clarity, Confidence, and Voice
Whole Story Living® courses are small-group learning experiences designed to help individuals clarify their message, communicate their work with confidence, and develop a personal brand rooted in integrity not performance.
These courses blend reflection, discussion, and practical tools to help participants find language that fits, share their stories with intention, and communicate consistently across platforms and conversations.
Current Offering
The Whole Story Personal Brand Course
A 6-week course focused on helping participants:
- Clarify what they do and why it matters
- Understand who they serve and how to speak to them
- Use story as a communication tool, not a performance
- Talk about their work with greater confidence and ease
Courses are offered periodically.
Workshops & Communications Consulting
Strategic Clarity for Organizations Doing Complex, Meaningful Work
Many organizations struggle to communicate their value, not because the work lacks impact, but because it’s complex and difficult to translate. Messages shift by audience. Teams use different language. Important work becomes hard to explain or easy to overlook.
Whole Story Living® approaches story as a communication strategy: a way to clarify meaning, align messaging, and translate complex work into language people understand and remember.
Through workshops and strategic consulting, Meg helps organizations:
- Clarify what they do and why it matters
- Align internal and external communication
- Create shared language across teams and stakeholders
- Communicate value clearly without oversimplifying the work
This work is grounded in teaching, facilitation, and strategic guidance, helping teams think more clearly about how they communicate.
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Whole Story Living is built on a simple belief: when people understand their work more clearly, they communicate with greater confidence and connection follows.I
f you’re looking for thoughtful guidance, practical tools, or a clearer way to communicate what matters most, I’d love to explore what might be helpful.
Stay Connected
Whole Story Living is also a written practice.
If you’d like to explore these ideas more slowly—through essays, reflections, and field notes—you’re invited to join my Substack, where I write about communication, story, and living a whole story in a fragmented world.
Read on SubstackVideo Storytelling
The team at Homeplace Creative aims to create compelling video narratives using journalistic approaches that:
- Honor the voices of storytellers over marketing goals
- Work to ethically engage audiences without sensationalizing
- Aim for conversational style interviewing and video capture to provide genuine and honest representations
Brand Stories
Brand stories focus on people and communicate the facts and feelings associated with your brand. Our videos inspire emotional reactions and are geared towards building trust and credibility with your brand. Our brand stories typically range in length from one to five minutes.
Brand Documentaries
Brand documentaries are longer-form videos used to tell stories that share a brand’s mission, values, and culture. The goal of documentaries is to delight the audience while being subtle and tasteful with brand exposure. Brand documentaries build a brand ethos and stand to establish strong emotional connections. Brand documentaries typically range from five to sixty minutes in length.
How It Works
1
Ideation
We meet with your team to ideate video ideas and communication goals.
2
Filming
We come and collect the interviews and film needed to create your video story.
3
Editing
We'll create a compelling narrative story aimed at meeting your communication goals.
"Well-planned, highly-creative"
Homeplace brought well-planned, highly-creative pitches to our early calls – they were on top of offering us an impactful video from the very beginning. As technologists, this creativity was completely aligned with what we want our brand to convey. Shoot preparation went smoothly with Homeplace Creative because they were able to leverage pre-existing relationships to help schedule interviews and shoot sites. Their familiarity with Ohio and its political leaders made our project stronger, delivering the best results.
Brooke Walters
Marketing Manager, Smart Solutions, Charter Communications
Frequently Asked Questions
01
Do you film more than one video at a time?
Absolutely! We prefer to film multiple videos in one shoot, giving you a brand narrative and mini narratives to use across media platforms.
02
How much work goes into prepping for a video?
From your end, we just require an ideation meeting to understand your communication goals. From there, we'll develop a plan to collect the narratives.
03
What can you expect when we come to film?
Our primary goal is to make clients comfortable in front of the camera. We try our best to capture the real moments as they occur so that audiences relate to the authentic emotion and honest stories that emerge.
Consulting
We've spent decades as practitioners and researchers teaching hundreds of individuals how to use personal stories ethically and honestly to build community and grow impact. We've taught university students, professionals, and teams to use storytelling in internal and external communications.
Workshops
We offer a variety of in-person and online workshop options for individuals and teams to learn the how-to and methodologies behind our storytelling approach. Customized workshops and training are available.
Coaching
We work with teams to assess overall storytelling opportunities for your brand. From there, we come up with customized, data-driven communication plans to strategically share stories for more impact.
How It Works
1
Initial Assessment
We'll meet with you and your team to assess your story needs and opportunities.
2
Data Gathering
We work with your team or a member of your team to collect the data we need to help us create your workshop or strategic storytelling plan.
3
Story Deliverable
We'll deliver a fantastic storytelling workshop or a data-driven strategic storytelling plan.
"Homeplace felt like part of our team"
Homeplace consulting process helped to bring clarity to our audience, sharpen our marketing and build a sales funnel. Through this process Homeplace felt like part of our team, there was a sense of care for our product and a desire for our company to win. I would recommend every company walk through the consulting process with Homeplace.
Lindsey Harwood
Co-Director, 5Q Central
Frequently Asked Questions
01
How much work is it on my end to create a strategic storytelling plan?
We work collaboratively with you to compose your plan! We'll meet with you to listen to your concerns and goals. Then, we do the research and write up your written plan.
02
Can you train individuals to produce quality, narrative-driven stories?
Yes! We love working with individuals to help them learn our storytelling and technical techniques.
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Can we collaborate with Homeplace to implement our storytelling plan?
Absolutely, we love working with organizations to bring stories to life and experience the ROI of the plans.