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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NARIDUS Team
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. |