Chris Hare

The Storied Future

The Storied Future podcast provides the knowledge and inspiration C-Suite leaders need to bend the future to their will. We interview experts, innovators, and purpose-driven leaders who have harnessed the power of strategic narrative to align everyone from the buyer to the boardroom around a shared vision of tomorrow.

Storied guests include:

Bracken Darrell, CEO of Logitech 

Heather Dowdy, Child of Deaf Adults and Director of Product Accessibility at Netflix

Mark Stouse, CEO at Proof Analytics, Former CMO at Honeywell Aerospace

Rishi Dave, Expert Partner in B2B Marketing, Bain & Company

Pete Sauerborn, Chairman and CEO, FTD

Ebbie Parsons, Managing Partner, Yardstick Management

Mary Shea, Co-CEO of Mediafly, former Principal Analyst at Forrester 

Jake Wood, Co-Founder at Team Rubicon, CEO at Groundswell

Erica Brinker, Chief Commercial Officer, Array Technologies, Former CMO at Honeywell

Aaron Mitchell, Architect of the Netflix 2% Pledge of $100 Million into Black-owned Banks

Jamie Cleghorn, Senior Partner, Bain & Company 

Kyle Arteaga, CEO, Bulleit Group

Host of The Storied Future Podcast

Chris Hare is a narrative advisor and coach for conscious CEOs, founders, and executives. He helps high-performing leaders navigate the transition from ownership to exit by unlocking the power of their stories in a way that enables them to uncover their why, travel through uncertainty, create what's next, and find purpose beyond profit. 

Chris also helps mid-market founders and CEOs increase company value through strategic narratives that enable them to successfully navigate transactions, transitions, and transformations | Sell-side pitch decks, coaching, and storytelling for M&A | Corporate narratives to align board to buyer around a new future in a way that makes the business strategy a reality | M&A alignment, digital transformation, channel conflict

Chris's storied impact:

-Building a strategic narrative for a mid-market paint distributor that's transforming their company from the boardroom to the frontlines

-Crafting the FY25 Microsoft AI for Energy Industry narrative pitch deck

-Creating a strategy and campaign designed to shift a narrative for an $XXX billion division of a $1 trillion company

-Architecting a strategic narrative for GoDaddy that aligned everyone from COO, CCO, CBO, CMO, VP of Comms, and the brand team around a customer-first vision of the future. Then created a data storytelling platform to help them bring this vision to life. 

“I won’t pursue any strategy in the future without having the narrative clearly identified, like we've done with The Storied Future.” Andrew Walsh, CEO, Applicate Commerce

“Chris and his team helped us craft a powerful strategic narrative that captured the spirit of the millions of everyday  entrepreneurs that GoDaddy serves.” Karen Tillman, CCO

Founder, Executive Narrative Advisor

Experience the power of Atomic Storytelling and discover how this proven framework has helped founders, CEOs and GTM leaders at mid-market companies and tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft to shift the future.

If you want to find and tell the story that will get you in the right room, increase the impact of your go-to-market strategy, close your next round of funding, transform your leadership, or unlock your purpose, this talk is for you. You’ll learn what Atomic Stories are, where you can find them, and how you can use them to create and fuel your Narrative FlywheelTM. You’ll also feel the difference this approach can make as you experience stories from leaders at Logitech, TOPGUN, NASA, Netflix, Amazon, and more.

Keynote Speaker - Atomic Storytelling

Mixing Board

Mixing Board is a community of communications and brand marketing leaders that share knowledge with each other and organizations that can benefit from accessing members’ expertise.

Member

The Outlier Project

The Bar X Project

Chief Storyteller (Pro Bono)

Microsoft

I led content marketing for two global engagement programs, co-owning customer journey and overseeing content audit, content strategy and content creation for delivery across the marketing funnel.

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Built a global marketing campaign—How to Crush Your Sales Quota—with 50+ connected assets designed to entice enterprise VPs of sales down the funnel and into nurture. Managed agency of record, content strategy, creative, budget, interviews with industry thought leaders, and site dev. Wrote copy on all three campaign sites and pre-roll videos, including a women's crew video that generated over 1.2MM views and 800 shares on Facebook. Signed and managed Motofish Images to create original sport photography and video. Created a library of assets to help bring the new Dynamics brand story to life.

Senior Content Marketing Manager

Amazon Services

Built a content marketing framework to discover and produce small business stories at scale. Drove execution from prototype, to framework construction, to scaling and production of 25+ interviews in less than 3 months—for ~$3K a piece. Constructed a content matrix to meta-tag all interview content across 45 dimensions, enabling the production of up to 75 individual content pieces from one interview.   

Produced an Amazon Services brand anthem video, weaving all five products into one story, and created a to-customer campaign delivered via the home page of Amazon as well as through email and social. Resulted in 250MM+ impressions. 

Won the 2014 NA Seller Services Hackathon by creating an innovative new way to use mobile and social to add unique selection to the marketplace. Competed against 20+ teams from US and India in a Shark Tank-style pitch and live code demo.

Digital Marketing Editor

Developed creative for national campaigns, events, and customer marketing initiatives. Orchestrated a successful new business pitch into Amazon.com and wrote the winning pitch deck for a $1 million Microsoft RFP.

-Concepted and wrote copy for the Webby-nominated Volkswagen Group of America living case study
 for Microsoft Lync
-Wrote a humorous eBook on Marketing 101 for Windows app developers 
-Co-authored a white paper on the consumerization of IT for Microsoft
-Created campaigns and content for Microsoft CSS, Dynamics, EPG, MSDN, Office 365, Public Sector, SMB, Surface, Windows, Windows Azure, and more.
-Conjured up copy for video, direct mail, websites, and ads that reached millions of T-Mobile customers

Senior Copywriter

Write Brained Hare

Chief Idea Guy

Six8 Media

-Wrote and produced a full-length DVD for kids and teens featuring NFL-great Brett Favre
-Created a series of case studies for Microsoft COO Kevin Turner showcasing how SQL Server, SharePoint, .NET, SQL, Hyper-V, & BI are changing lives and businesses around the world
-Researched and wrote the brief for Microsoft SVP Andy Lees’ Worldwide Partners Conference keynote address video
-Authored a $1 million congressional funding proposal for Swedish Medical Center’s physical and IT security initiative 
-Produced a financial tips video for Seattle author Jill Keto that landed her a national appearance on FOX Morning Show

Principal/Writer+Producer

Integrated Talent LLC

Business Development Manager

CEO Narratives That Advance Business Strategies and Transform Leaders | Principal at The Storied Future| Host of The Storied Future Podcast

Stories have the power to transform you, your company, and the world. Yet, the most powerful stories are often the hardest to uncover. That's where I come in. Using the Atomic Storytelling™ framework, I unlock the potential energy in your life and career stories, and create a narrative that not only reflects your true self but also aligns with your professional journey, driving you and your audience toward an irresistible vision of the future—what I call Future Gravity.

Future Gravity May Be a Fit If You…
✅ Are navigating a transition (succession, exit, retirement)
✅ Want to build your influence online
✅ Have a story the world needs to hear
✅ Want to integrate who you are with what you do
✅ Want to build a different future
✅ Are tired of going it alone
✅ Are seeking to land a new role
✅ Want to launch something new
✅ Want to capture your legacy

What Future Gravity Can Do for You…
✅ Establish a differentiated thought leadership platform
✅ Earn trust in town halls, board meetings, and one-on-ones
✅ Transform your leadership
✅ Give the media a reason to interview you
✅ Build influence on social media
✅ Write the book or land the keynote
✅ Get sought out for the next job
✅ Make your purpose a reality

"Chris is a storyteller who unlocks the story of you. His deep curiosity and kindness opened up the aperture in my story, he helped me reveal myself to me. A most magical gift." Whitney Johnson, CEO, Disruption Advisors

“Most PR agencies are great for getting you on the road but don’t always go deep into who’s driving. Chris couldn’t be more different. He’ll put you behind the wheel of a storytelling Ferrari, crafted inch by inch to tell the most compelling story out there – yours.” Ali Winkle, CEO, Just Drive Media

Founder + Chief Narrative Strategist

The Storied Future helps brand, marketing, and PR leaders to spark conversation, build connection, and accelerate growth through strategic narratives and authentic human stories that move audiences to action.

dbt Labs

Community Engagement

ActiveCampaign

Currently designing a course for active Campaign, on the 
heels of the "I Hate Marketing Automation" manifesto. 

Having worked in Martech for 15+ years, I've seen the power of automation.  
But I've also experienced its underbelly, as a.. well... human.  

We've all been on the receiving end of 
unsolicited, 
unwanted, 
untimely, and 
unforgivingly persistent advances 
from brands that swear they are exactly 
what we need in our life, right at this moment.

Automation technology isn't the problem.

How we use it, is.


I'm working with Casey Hill and Adam Tuttle at ActiveCampaign, 
on the"Bingeworthy Emails" workshop for B2B Marketers.  

This is the future of B2B Email Marketing.

We can do better. 

Let's.

Brand Ambassador

MarTech

Contributing Writer

Demand Wars

Demand Wars is Survivor meets Hunger Games, for B2B Marketers.
B2B Marketing is Broken. 
Welcome to the Rebel Alliance. 
24 ruthless marketers.
4 fierce tribes.
Only ONE ultimate demand warrior.  

You decide their fate. 

Binge the series here: 
https://www.TACKnetwork.com/demand-wars

Director of Content & Community

Hello, Audience.

Content strategy consulting for B2B SaaS brands.

B2B Marketing content contributor for online publications, including:
- AudiencePlus
- MarTech.org.

Author: Before the Funnel newsletter
Host: Demand Wars Show, Season 1 
Host: Binge Podcast, Season 1

Thought leadership featured on:
- Notorious Thought Leader
- Account Based Beverages
- Marketers Talk Marketing
- 2 Pizza Marketers
- The Hype Within
- GTM News
- B2B Nation

Proficient with AI content tools, including:
- MidJourney
- Riverside
- Descript
- Capsule
- Canva
- Opus

TestBox

Led marketing strategy centered around demand creation + demand capture. 
- Rapidly stablished relationships with the top influencers in Customer Support.
- Created 12 episodes and 70 social videos for a new show, 
- resulting in a Top 5% podcast in the world, in month one.
- Achieved 5x user growth and 90% lead acquisition cost reduction.

VP of Marketing

Bevy

Led the Demand Gen Function at Bevy. Including:
-  Growth Marketing, 
- Field Marketing, 
- Partner Marketing, 
- Marketing Operations, and 
- Community Marketing of CMX, 
(the world’s leading community for Community Professionals.)

Senior Director of Demand Generation

Revenue Collective

Led the Revenue Collective of Color community in the Revenue Collective community (now called Pavilion.) Grew membership, increased engagement, and introduced new community programming.

Community Lead, Revenue Collective of Color (Volunteer)

metadata.io

Drove multiple projects across Demand Gen, Sales Engineering & Customer Success. 

- Sales Engineering: Led over four dozen sales calls
- Customer Success: Led several customer churn reversal sessions. 
- Marketing: Built  blueprint for Demand Gen course for LinkedIn Learning.

Director of Demand Generation

Oh Happy Day Marketing

Clients include The Walt Disney Company, Melissa & Doug, Bark Technologies, and multiple public and private schools.

Managed a team of go-getter marketers, using marketing automation, inbound marketing, and demand gen campaigns to drive results for small and mid-sized businesses.

Led planning and execution of a virtual online conference (virtual summit), using Account-Based Marketing to land 40 world-class thought-leaders, (40% conversion on outbound multi-channel campaigns), and half a dozen high-level corporate sponsors. 

The conference attracted 3,000 qualified leads and converted 5% to customers.

Built a training business teaching aspiring authors to write, publish, and market fiction successfully.  Created over two dozen courses, and sold to over 7,000 customers (10% average conversion rate from online sales letters.)

Built a high-ticket services business that helped dozens of small businesses leverage authority marketing as a thought leadership strategy, in the form of publishing bestselling nonfiction books.

Built dozens of profitable marketing funnels, using lead magnets, landing pages, drip campaigns, sales copywriting, and marketing automation.

Head of Content at Hello, Audience.

As a demand gen marketer turned community and content strategist, Bolaji builds high-impact owned media channels that drive real business outcomes—through community, video podcasting, and first-party content.

With hands-on expertise in tools like Common Room, Descript, Riverside, MidJourney and Opus Clip, Bolaji has launched and scaled content ecosystems that not only grow brand affinity but directly influence pipeline and product adoption.

Bolaji thrives at the intersection of community-led growth, media brand building, and strategic storytelling—especially in B2B SaaS environments where trust, education, and differentiation matter more than ever.

He's passionate about helping brands move beyond transactional marketing, to create audience-first experiences that turn users into champions.


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💬 Media projects include:

- Data Career Transformations: The most unlikely success stories in Data.

- The View on Data: 5 dynamic women share unfiltered insights from inside the data industry.

- The Data Analyst Show: Pull back the curtain on the lives of data analysts.

- Demand Wars: B2B Marketing meets Survivor + Hunger Games.

- Bingeworthy Emails: A mini-course on building addictive email nurture sequences.

- Before The Funnel: How to create content for the 95% of ideal buyers not yet in a buying cycle.

In his spare time, Bolaji coaches youth soccer, writes children's books, and reads too much science fiction.

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