You thrive when you own, trust, and follow the aspirational guide of your story.
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Our proposition is straightforward: story rests at the heart of what we do or imagine doing. We thrive when we own, trust, and follow the aspirational guide of our story.
Achieving goals, being who you desire to be, or creating an authentic, creative, and collaborative work culture is made real through and by applying story. Whether it is your individual story or the company's narrative—story reveals intention and provides sense-making and direction for what must be done to make that intention a reality. We all want to be somebody, and that somebody happens and thrives through an individual story. This is why all of our work rests under an umbrella of we call: Storythiving.™ |
How We Serve
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We offer straightforward coaching and consulting services that fall into a few general areas:
Each serves to have you, your team, or your organization thrives. Executive and Leadership Coaching is just that, but with the twist of using story and intent as the grounding to achieve goals, strengthen leadership presence, and make intent an aspiration become a reality. Getting Your Story Straight rests the heart of Naridus's work. Everyone wants to be somebody and build a life of meaning and significance—career or otherwise. And the pathway to achieving this goal is by knowing, telling, and trusting your story. It's remarkable how few people can tell their stories in a concise and integrated manner, regardless of age or standing. Our programs, workshops, and talks do just this. We help clients reveal their stories and use them to change their lives. These stories reflect an a possible future founded on past experiences and guiding beliefs, which provide the sense-making to do what needs to be done in the present to make reality their intentions and "who they want to be." That's what we do. And we do this because we believe the more people are attuned to their stories, the more likely they will thrive. And when others thrive, we all thrive. To do this, we provide programs that can be experienced individually or in groups, that run from a few hours to being strategically spaced over a few months. The Naridus StoryThriving™ programs are geared for anyone working to clarify and strengthen their presence, build confidence, and shape their futures positively. These efforts are also particularly relevant and essential for young adults who are making critical careers and life choices. All efforts are hands-on, concrete, and rich with meaning. And can be conducted effectively via video chats and, of course, face-to-face. |
 Through Story, You Thrive
Story and Culture And in terms of organizational culture, we offer a model for understanding your organization that serves as an antidote to common workplace maladies that affect productivity, talent retention, best practices, fruitful collaboration, and innovation and spark. Our approach reveals the organization as fundamentally being narrative-based. This organizational narrative articulates who you are, why you do what you do, reveals your history, and, notably, how this intent gives rise to what needs to be done and how your staff brings their stories, aspirations, and talents to your firm to take up roles that lead them and your organization to success. Culture is built on and through your story. It's that simple but requires trusting who you say you are and want to be. Then acting and living accordingly. |
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NARIDUS Team
FRANK LEHNER
Principal |
FAHMIDA HOSSAIN, PhD, HEC-C
Faciliator, Content Developer, Diversity Consultant |
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Frank is an executive coach, facilitator, educator, and designer with a long-standing interest in organizational effectiveness and individual engagement in life and work. His passion has focused on practical applications of storytelling, narrative, and creativity in business, educational, and non-profit settings.
In addition, Frank teaches a course at the University of Pittsburgh, which guides students to learn and tell their stories so they can create the careers and lives they imagine. Frank’s teaching and facilitation style is energetic, engaging, animated, a bit unorthodox, and filled with wit and compassion. He is an award-winning book designer, a published poet, folk artist, and playwright. Frank is based in Pittsburgh, Pa. with his wife and their Border Collie/Husky mix, Mssr. Bârü. Frank holds a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Duquesne University. |
Fahmida recently completed her Ph.D. at the Center for Health Ethics, Duquesne University, is a certified Healthcare Ethic Consultant, and a Key Contributor to Naridus.
Fahmida is a change agent, passionate about women and gender issues, and questions assumptions to promote dialogue and healing. Her vision is to place narrative and storytelling as a lived and practical means to understand and shape organizational culture (particularly within healthcare); change efforts; best practices improvements; and everyday, person-to-person encounters through an innovative approach she calls Narrative Authority. Fahmida has been published in a number notable academic journals and invited to speak on her work nationally and internationally. She has co-facilitated development classes for cohorts of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, which is part of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative. She teaches a Medical Ethics class at Duquesne University. Fahmida was also awarded two research fellowships at the Jewish Healthcare Foundation in Patient Safety Fellowship and Death & Dying. In addition, she also was awarded the prestigious 2021 McAnulty Dissertation Fellowship Award at Duquesne University for her significant research in her field. Fahmida is based in Pittsburgh, Pa., but originally hails from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Note: Fahmida's insights regarding "moral injury to healthcare workers as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic" appeared in articles at WebMD and the World Economic Forum. See Fahmida's talk on Narrative Authority, Moral Injury & Pathways to Wellbeing for the SheRecovers Foundation. July 2023, Fahmida will take on a new challenge, a post-doc fellowship in Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. |