About Narris

Being heard matters. Being understood matters more.

Narris International is a boutique strategic narrative and positioning advisory helping leaders and institutions align complexity, communication, and stakeholder understanding with precision and strategic clarity.

Our purpose

Closing the gap between organisational intent and audience interpretation.

To help leaders and institutions transform complexity, fragmentation, and strategic ambiguity into clarity, coherence, resonance, and trusted understanding.

Most organisations have the ambition, intelligence or capability. They can still fail because they are misunderstood, internally fragmented, poorly positioned, strategically unclear, or disconnected from the people they seek to influence. Narris International exists to close that gap.

We define communication as a strategic mechanism for achieving outcomes, not expression for its own sake.

  • Interpretation precedes communication.

  • Listening precedes positioning.

  • Understanding precedes influence.

Clarity creates trust. Trust creates alignment. Alignment creates influence. And influence creates meaningful outcomes.

Vision and mission

Vision

To become the most trusted strategic narrative and positioning advisory for organizations operating within complex, emerging, and globally interconnected environments.

Mission

To help organizations, institutions, and leadership teams align vision, positioning, communication, and stakeholder understanding through strategic interpretation, narrative architecture, and precision-driven advisory.

Core values

What we hold ourselves to.

  1. Precision

    We pursue interpretive, strategic and narrative precision in every engagement.

    Detail, analytical rigour, thoughtful framing, disciplined thinking.

  2. Integrity

    Trust is built through honesty, discretion and intellectual responsibility.

    Truthful advisory, ethical positioning, confidentiality, authentic communication.

  3. Strategic thinking

    We do not treat communication as isolated messaging. We work systemically.

    Long-term orientation, systems thinking, institutional understanding, contextual intelligence.

  4. Listening

    Meaningful communication begins with deep understanding.

    Audience interpretation, executive understanding, contextual immersion, empathy without assumption.

  5. Depth

    Thoughtful analysis over superficial visibility.

    Intellectual seriousness, nuance, strategic maturity.

What sets Narris apart

Part research, part interpretation, part strategic architecture.

  • Interpretive precision

    Reading what organisations and audiences actually mean, not only what they say.

  • Strategic and human integration

    Rigorous strategy, carried with human understanding.

  • Cross-cultural understanding

    Fluency across contexts, institutions and audiences.

  • Relationship-centred advisory

    Long-term, confidential partnership rather than one-off deliverables.

  • Narrative architecture

    The structure of meaning, positioning and communication systems, not just storytelling.

Six layers, one approach

We bridge what is understood with what is communicated, perceived, and achieved.

  1. 01

    Research

    Understanding realities

  2. 02

    Interpretation

    Extracting meaning

  3. 03

    Strategy

    Creating direction

  4. 04

    Narrative

    Shaping understanding

  5. 05

    Positioning

    Influencing perception

  6. 06

    Alignment

    Sustaining coherence

How we do it

Nine stages, from first conversation to lasting coherence.

Every engagement moves through four phases. The stages inside each are shaped to the question you bring.

01

Listen

  1. STAGE 01

    Discovery

    Executive conversations.

  2. STAGE 02

    Context mapping

    Goals, vision and audiences.

02

Interpret

  1. STAGE 03

    Audience interpretation

    Motivations and emotional realities.

  2. STAGE 04

    Strategic diagnosis

    Fragmentation and misalignment.

03

Shape

  1. STAGE 05

    Narrative development

    Resonance and positioning.

  2. STAGE 06

    Strategic framing

    Aligning communication with objectives.

04

Align and sustain

  1. STAGE 07

    Stakeholder alignment

    Coherence across audiences.

  2. STAGE 08

    Advisory guidance

    Counsel as the work lands.

  3. STAGE 09

    Implementation support

    Carrying the work into practice.

Who we serve

Leaders and institutions with complex ideas to make understood.

We work with C-suite executives and leaders in private corporations, leaders in NGOs and mission-driven organisations, and business owners and founders. We also support institutions, development organisations and research-heavy bodies.

Problems we solve

  • Fragmented messaging
  • Weak positioning
  • Stakeholder misalignment
  • Audience misunderstanding
  • Communication incoherence
  • Institutional ambiguity
  • Narrative inconsistency
  • Perception challenges
  • Cross-cultural interpretation gaps
  • Transition-related trust issues

Where we are

Based in Nairobi. Working with clients worldwide.

Work can be delivered remotely, with clients worldwide.

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