Storyforge

What Storyforge does

Storyforge is a privately held, founder-led boutique consulting practice founded in 2014 by Haley Boehning and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The firm helps organizations uncover, articulate, and activate a 'meaningful story' — a unifying narrative that aligns internal teams, leadership, and external stakeholders around organizational purpose. Its core offering, 'Storyforging,' is a four-phase methodology (Clarify, Align, Activate, Navigate) delivered through structured engagements involving stakeholder interviews, leadership workshops, and ongoing advisory retainers. Named clients span accounting (GBQ), government and public-private partnerships (Smart Columbus), retail and hospitality consulting (ASG | Chute Gerdeman), children's publishing (Highlights), nonprofit and political organizations (The Matriots), real estate (Zimmerman Companies), and energy services (TogetherSolve), demonstrating horizontal applicability across enterprise, SMB, nonprofit, and government segments.

The company's revenue model is professional services: bespoke consulting retainers, supplemented by keynote speaking fees and individual leadership mentorship for solopreneurs and executives. A monthly newsletter, LinkedIn publishing, podcast hosting, and conference speaking (Conscious Capitalism, Vistage Worldwide, NAWBO) drive top-of-funnel demand generation. Storyforge is founder-owned with no institutional funding, parent company, or subsidiaries, and operates with 1–10 employees — effectively a practice built around Haley Boehning's nearly 30 years of experience supporting Fortune 500 leadership and M&A integration. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and all engagements begin with a discovery conversation, consistent with a consultative, custom-quoted sales motion.

Name

Storyforge

Legal name

Storyforge

Website

https://storyforge.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Storyforge is a Columbus, Ohio-based boutique consulting practice founded in 2014 that helps organizations uncover and activate a meaningful organizational story through its proprietary 'Storyforging' four-phase methodology, serving enterprises, SMBs, nonprofits, and government clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbus

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Strategic Consulting Engagements: Storyforge provides structured consulting engagements helping organizations uncover their meaningful story through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and strategic alignment work. Engagements typically involve retainers and ongoing advisory relationships.
2. Speaking Engagements: Haley Boehning earns speaking fees for keynotes and workshops at conferences, company summits, and leadership meetings.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Storyforge is a boutique consulting firm that helps organizations uncover and activate their meaningful stories through a proprietary four-phase methodology called Storyforging (Clarify, Align, Activate, Navigate). The firm conducts deep stakeholder interviews and leadership workshops to define organizational purpose, then codifies that purpose into a framework used as a daily decision-making filter across the business.

Product overview

Storyforge is a consulting services firm offering Storyforging—a structured program for forging and activating meaningful organizational stories—as its core service. The company also provides speaking engagements by Founder and CEO Haley Boehning, individual leadership mentorship for solopreneurs and executives, and a community newsletter. Storyforging follows a four-phase methodology (Clarify, Align, Activate, Navigate) to help businesses uncover their meaningful story and achieve organizational alignment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Storyforging A structured consulting program for forging and activating meaningful organizational stories. The four-phase process (Clarify, Align, Activate, Navigate) uncovers what a business truly means to its stakeholders, then builds alignment through stakeholder interviews, leadership workshops, and ongoing advisory. Designed for ambitious leaders, founders, and executives at growth-stage organizations.
• Speaking Engagements

Quantifiable outcome

• GBQ grew team by 29% and achieved nearly 100% employee engagement during pandemic
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Conscious Capitalism: Conscious Capitalism is an organization Haley Boehning speaks for, promoting purpose-driven business — an ecosystem partner rather than a competitor, but directly connected to Storyforge's market and credibility-building platform.

Broad incumbents

• Siegel+Gale: Siegel+Gale is a global brand strategy and design consultancy known for simplicity-driven brand and purpose work — overlapping with Storyforge's organizational alignment and narrative clarity offerings for enterprise clients.
• Prophet: Prophet is a global consultancy specializing in brand, marketing, and customer experience transformation for large enterprises — overlapping with Storyforge's purpose-driven transformation work but at a far larger scale.
• Interbrand: Interbrand is one of the world's largest brand consultancies, offering brand strategy and purpose activation services to global enterprises — a broader incumbent addressing the same 'brand purpose' demand as Storyforge.
• Lippincott: Lippincott is a global brand strategy consultancy serving Fortune 500 clients with brand purpose, identity, and organizational alignment work — a much larger incumbent competing for the same enterprise buyers Storyforge targets.
• Landor & Fitch: Landor & Fitch is a global brand and design consultancy with extensive purpose and brand-strategy offerings — competing for enterprise purpose-driven transformation engagements alongside Storyforge.

Direct peers

• StoryBrand: Donald Miller's StoryBrand is a direct peer offering structured storytelling frameworks (StoryBrand 7-part framework) and workshops to help businesses clarify and communicate their message — directly competing for the same 'story-driven business' buyer as Storyforge.
• Fahrenheit Strategy: Fahrenheit is a boutique brand and storytelling consultancy that helps organizations find, frame, and activate their narrative — closely matching Storyforge's purpose/story activation positioning and boutique engagement model.
• The Story Studio: The Story Studio is a boutique firm helping leaders and organizations develop meaningful narratives and messaging strategy, overlapping with Storyforge's core 'meaningful story' methodology and founder-led delivery model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@storyforge614/videos
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/storyforge

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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