BRANTAXIS ACADEMY
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BrantAxis Academy turns the BrantAxis Narrative System™ into accredited continuing education — CE courses and workshops, and learning paths for leaders and professionals who want to use narrative as a tool to drive organizational outcomes: Leading change, accelerating learning, building collaboration, and shaping culture.
The BrantAxis Learning Paths
The BrantAxis Learning Paths are built on the seven core areas of the BrantAxis Narrative System™. Each path brings one of these areas to life through courses, podcasts, articles, books, and more. These paths are not prescriptive — you build your own pathway, choosing the resources that meet your needs at your own pace. Learning paths are launching progressively — explore what's available now.
PROGRAMS IN THE LEARNING PATHS
Select an item from one of the paths
CHANGE VELOCITY
Accelerating organizational change through narrative momentum
How Stories Shape Organizational Change
For: Leaders, HR and change teams, and organizations mid-transition
People rarely resist change itself. They resist the story being told about it. When that story is unclear, incomplete, or at odds with what people experience, even well-planned change stalls. This program helps you find what your change story is missing and build one people believe, so your teams understand what is changing, why it matters, and where they fit.
Free intro, live session, team workshop
CAREER CATALYST
Turn career transitions into narrative opportunities that drive professional growth
Narrative Strategies for Retirement
For: Employers with financial wellness programs, and individuals 5 to 15 years from retirement
Retirement readiness is more than a financial plan. How people think about money, work, and what comes next shapes their decisions long before their last day. This program helps participants understand that relationship and bring clearer goals into every conversation with a financial advisor, with no need to share personal financial details. It complements financial planning rather than replacing it.
Webinar, workshop, self-paced course
Narrative Interview Strategy
For: Students, job seekers, career changers
“Tell me about yourself” is an invitation, not a formality. Most candidates answer it by reciting their resume. This one-on-one coaching program helps you tell the story behind your experience, so interviewers remember who you are and not only where you’ve worked.
One-on-one coaching
Reframing your Narrative Identity
For: Professionals at a turning point, emerging and established leaders, and anyone whose job title no longer tells their whole story
Your job title says what you do. It rarely says who you are. Put your professional identity into words that feel true.Your job title says what you do. It rarely says who you are. In this one-on-one coaching program, you uncover the story behind your professional identity and put it into words that feel true, on paper and out loud. You leave with a personal narrative and a confident way to introduce yourself.
One-on-one coaching
ALIGNMENT DESIGN
Connect people, purpose, and strategy through shared narrative.
Narrative Leadership Studio
For: Executives, senior leaders, managers, and the teams responsible for change, strategy, and people development
Every organization runs on stories about where it’s headed, how work really gets done, and what leadership means. Few leaders learn to work with them on purpose. This program builds the narrative capability leaders need to guide change, strengthen alignment, and keep hard-won knowledge from being lost. The results are measured, so you see the difference in your teams
Webinar · Multi-week series
The Small Business Story Advantage
For: Small-business owners and founders and the organizations that support local businesses, such as small-business development centers and chambers of commerce
Every small business has stories: why it started, the customers it has helped, the problems it has solved, and why people choose it over someone else. Few owners put those stories to work. This program helps owners find the stories already in their business, use the right one at the right moment, and test them against what their own customers actually say. Owners score their stories at the start and again at the end, so they can see the difference.
Four-part series · Online or in person
TRUST ARC
Develop the narrative competences that earn lasting trust
Trust by Design: How Storytelling Strengthens Advisor-Client Trust (coming soon)
For: CFP® professionals and financial planners, new or experienced, who want deeper, longer-lasting client relationships
Your clients trust your credentials. That isn’t the same as trusting you. Clients rarely leave because of the technical work. They leave because they feel unheard. This course shows why competence alone doesn’t build the kind of trust that keeps clients, gets plans implemented, and earns referrals, and why story is what closes the gap. You leave with a clear picture of where your client relationships are strong and where trust is being left on the table.
Self-paced online course · About one hour · CE credit for CFP® professionals
Part A of The Narrative Planner CE Series
Trust in Practice: Five Narrative Strategies That Retain Clients and Generate Referrals (coming soon)
For: CFP® professionals and financial planners ready to turn trust-building into everyday practice
Knowing what builds trust is one thing. Doing it in your next client meeting is another. This course gives you practical, research-grounded ways to use story in the moments that matter most, from first meetings and annual reviews to the hard conversations. You leave with a specific plan to put what you’ve learned to work with a real client within 30 days.
Self-paced online course · About one hour · CE credit for CFP® professionals
Part B of The Narrative Planner CE Series
