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Paige Williams is an applied researcher, strategist, entrepreneur, filmmaker, and bestselling author developing the emerging field of Narrative Intelligence. She is the author of The Twelve Creative Keys and host of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, a public inquiry into how the stories we live by shape identity, agency, leadership, and change.
Long bio
Paige Williams is the creator of Narrative Intelligence, a practitioner-facing framework for recognizing the narratives that shape perception, discerning what is true from what is assumed, remaining flexible when circumstances change, exercising meaningful agency, and translating choice into action.
She is an applied researcher, strategist, entrepreneur, filmmaker, speaker, and bestselling author. For twelve years, Paige built and led AudPop, a global media technology platform that served more than 80,000 filmmakers and creators and developed an archive of 14,000 short films. That founder experience now informs her work with leaders and organizations navigating consequential decisions, innovation, resistance, rapid change, and reinvention.
Paige is the author of The Twelve Creative Keys and the creator and host of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project. Through the project, she speaks with researchers, executives, artists, educators, therapists, social scientists, and storytellers around one central question: How malleable are the stories we live by, and what does it take to change one?
Her clients and audiences have included leaders and organizations such as Microsoft, Nasdaq, ALPS, the Montana Chamber of Commerce, and the University of Montana.
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The Twelve Creative Keys
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Narrative Intelligence
Narrative Intelligence is the capacity to recognize the narratives shaping how we perceive and interpret experience, discern what is true from what is assumed, remain flexible when circumstances change, exercise meaningful agency, and translate choice into action.
Paige’s framework organizes the work through five interdependent capacities: SEE / Recognition, SORT / Discernment, EXPAND / Flexibility, CHOOSE / Agency, and LIVE / Enactment. It is not storytelling training, communications consulting, positive thinking, or a mandate to replace every difficult story with an optimistic one.
Read the public guideSuggested interview topics
What it is, what it is not, and how stories influence perception, identity, decisions, and action.
What happens when an old identity has expired but a new one is not yet fully available.
How to locate meaningful choice without denying facts, limits, history, or uncertainty.
How inherited stories shape strategy, culture, change, risk, belonging, and executive decisions.
Why understanding a pattern is not the same as changing it—and what enactment requires.
How the Twelve Creative Keys support creative work, leadership, and movement through uncertainty.
Questions to ask Paige
Selected public work
Conversations exploring how malleable the stories we live by are—and what it takes to change one.
ExploreKeynotes and facilitated experiences from a keynote speaker on leadership and creative change.
ExploreSelected documentary and film work by Paige Williams.
ExploreThe Twelve Creative Keys and the forthcoming book on Narrative Intelligence.
ExploreA verified archive of third-party press and podcast appearances is being assembled. Outlet names will be added only when source links and attribution are confirmed.
Credentials at a glance
Creator
Narrative Intelligence framework
Author
The Twelve Creative Keys — #1 Amazon Best Seller, second edition
Founder
Built and led AudPop for twelve years
Community
80,000+ filmmakers and creators served through AudPop
Archive
14,000 short films in the AudPop platform archive
Host
100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project
Clients & stages
Microsoft, Nasdaq, ALPS, Montana Chamber of Commerce, University of Montana
Media contact
For interviews, podcast conversations, commentary, excerpts, event participation, or additional media assets, use the form. Paige or her team will follow up by email, usually within one to two business days.