Acknowledgements and Inspirations

Narrative by Numbers may have one author, but it has many interested cousins, some of them several times removed.

The idea for a book came up during my first coaching session – as a coaching guinea pig – with the splendid Tim Johns. Tim has been a client, will always be a mentor, and morphed into a coach when he decided to train as one. I had six brilliant sessions for the price of none as he learned his coaching trade. He became progressively less directive over our year working together, just after I’d set up my corporate and brand storytelling business, Insight Agents. But at the end of our first session, he said: “If you want to become Mr Data-Driven Storyteller, if you want to give a TED talk, it’s simple. ...

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