Jonathan Marks

I work with young disruptive teams within organizations to help them shape their international media strategies and build their company narrative. Most of my recent work has been with scale-up companies with global ambitions.

I help the audience to understand current disruptive innovations, relevant to the client's business. I work specifically in high-tech sectors and media. Often the audience is a group of investors.

-I help young disruptive teams design and build their story-framework I don't believe it stops with "demo day"! That often means a lot of listening, shaping and journalistic due diligence on their company story.

I help change a simple pitch into a more effective business narrative that investors understand. I don't believe in templates.

I'm a "hands-on person", actively writing, scripting, filming, directing and editing when needed.

I'm always scouting for brilliant collaborators. I work with colleagues, operating as a guild. I share ideas through selected public speaking, either keynotes or focussed in-company workshops.

What do others say I do well?

-Trusted troubleshooter - Sometimes you need a trusted person to listen, observe and analyze what's going on. I'm a good listener.
- Strategic Thinking - Driving out old ideas and replacing them with practical, hybrid, alternatives.
- Building powerful open-ended narratives with talented teams. Storytelling 3.0
- Interim Leadership. Planning, doing, evaluating, curating.
- Translating theory and customer/audience research into practice
- Inspiring creative people down new paths, even if difficult choices have to be made. Fan of the Design Sprint approach.
- Researching, especially confidential competitive analysis