Clarity changes everything.

Monostory™ partners with leaders and teams to get clear on who they are so that their message, culture, and decisions all tell the same story. Because when values, identity, story and strategy are clear and aligned - leaders lead with confidence, teams build together, brand becomes One Story, Lived Everywhere and trust is built by what people experience.

The Problem Monostory™ Solves

Most C-Suite leaders don’t come looking for a new brand framework.
They come with a simpler, more urgent need:

“Help me tell our story so it’s clear, true, and holds.”

They know their organisation has or needs a story. They need help articulating it in a way that people can understand, trust, and live, especially as growth, complexity, and scrutiny increase.

Many brand organisations focus on how a brand is positioned, expressed, or perceived. Monostory™ works at a different level. The challenge isn’t just telling a compelling story, it’s ensuring the story holds together across decisions, culture, and change.

When a story isn’t grounded in what truly matters, leaders feel stretched. Decisions become harder to explain, alignment is a consistently heavy lift, and the brand feels more fragile than it should under pressure.

This is the problem Monostory™ was designed to solve.

Monostory™ exists to help leaders and teams articulate a story that is not only compelling, but coherent. A story that reflects who they really are, guides decisions, and can be lived everywhere.

Monostory™ Method

Monostory™ is a simple, three-part process that helps Senior leaders and organisations build a clear, values-driven brand identity, expressed through a coherent brand story and lived out in strategic planning, everyday decisions, culture, and communication.

If you have a clear identity we start with story. If you have a clear story we partner with you to ensure it is strategically lived everywhere.

Clear enough to guide you. Strong enough to scale with you.

  • A values-driven brand identity is for Leaders and Organisations.

    For leaders, it provides a clear, steady decision framework they can rely on under pressure - reducing noise, second-guessing, and reactive trade-offs. For teams, it creates a shared internal logic for making clear, consistent decisions as the organisation grows.

    In the Monostory™ Brand Identity Workshop, you:

    • Clarify the values that actually shape decisions and behaviour (values defined as verbs)

    • Map your core brand foundations: vision, purpose, mission, promise, core values, and personality

    • Integrate identity into the key areas of the organisation or leaders life

    • Surface the counterfeits that quietly undermine alignment and brand strength

    This values-driven identity becomes the foundation for all future brand story and strategy.

  • How do you talk about who you are?

    A clear brand story turns values-driven identity into a narrative that can be used in messaging and campaigns.

    In the Monostory™ Brand Story you gain:

    • A clear internal narrative spine that defines who you are, what you stand for, and why it matters

    • A customer-facing narrative arc, shaped with your audience in mind, that helps people understand and trust your story

    • Distilled, values-driven language that translates identity into everyday words

    • Clear brand messaging and tone of voice aligned to your values.

    This shared story becomes the bridge between identity and action, guiding how you communicate and how others experience you.

  • How is your story lived?

    This is where your values driven identity and story shapes your strategic decisions.

    This is not a handover. Instead, you gain:

    • A strategist in residence, working alongside your leadership team within real planning, decision-making, and strategic conversations

    • Values-shaped decision support as priorities, trade-offs, and complexity emerge

    • Ongoing integration of identity and story into culture, systems, and strategy, so alignment is sustained over time

    This is how your brand is lived consistently and how trust is built.

Work With Monostory

Brand Storyteller.

Strategist. Researcher. Creator of Monostory™

Sam Valich partners with leaders and organisations who want One Story, Lived Everywhere.

For over 25 years, her work has helped leaders build values-driven brands that are clear, integrated, and able to scale without losing integrity. She doesn’t impose a brand; she surfaces what’s true and desired, then shapes the story and strategy that allow leaders and teams to live it consistently, especially when decisions matter most and pressure is high.

Creator of Monostory™, Sam helps ensure that values don’t collapse under growth or change, but remain the steady thread that guides culture, decisions, and trust over time.

A steady partner focused on ensuring what’s true on the inside is what people experience on the outside.

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  • “It is an understatement - but Sam has been the catalyst that has revolutionised our organisation’s identity and provided clarity of thinking previously missing. Her Monostory process revealed the one story of our brand and then wrapped it in authentic language. It has been such a revelation to the board and to me as CEO of the organisation. But more than all this- Sam is someone who deeply cares about the outcomes, but also the people through the process. I am humbled and so thankful for all Sam has brought and continues to bring to the organisation I serve and my role. Thank you!”

    Nathan - CEO

  • “Sam Valich has been fantastic to work with. She combines three wonderful qualities. Firstly she has the ability to synthesize masses of information in order to understand complexity. Secondly, she can envision a potential future, along with a road map for how to get there. Thirdly, Sam has superb relational skills. She listens and understands people as well as structures. I wholeheartedly recommend her as an ally for any organisation.”

    Greg - BOARD CHAIR

  • I couldn’t recommend Sam more highly! She has been instrumental in helping our organisation define, articulate and craft a brand that encapsulates all components of our organisation including; cultural values, messaging platforms, visual identity, public relations and employee value propositions. To enable this work Sam was required to work across teams, countries, and languages and to continually develop the organisation’s understanding of the role of Brand. She is visionary and creative and has helped me push boundaries and ask questions about our organisation's future and its role in the sector. I am so thankful for her time on my team and for the personal support she has offered.”

    Clare - CEO

  • “Sam helped me with a personal brand exercise using her Monostory approach. I was amazed at the output and the Monostory, the telling of my story and values. Sam's approach was unique, clever, and ingenious as she could extract a lot of content to build a simple yet deep story. Working with Sam was easy and fun and her passion for what she does is contagious. I highly recommend Sam if you are interested in building your unique personal brand in a very special way.”

    Alan - SENIOR DIRECTOR 

  • “Sam is unlike any other person I've ever met. Dynamic, entrepreneurial and big thinking only begin to touch on some of the qualities she carries. Sam is a guru on new ideas and conceptual thinking. Her love for keeping one finger firmly on the pulse of culture, society, people and brands always meant she was the go-to source for inspiration and next-practice thinking. I loved working with Sam and would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a brilliant-minded and passionate individual.”

    Caroline - STRATEGIC PLANNER

  • “Sam facilitated our Monostory workshop in May 2024. We gathered 12 people from all over Australia to articulate who we are and what we stand for. Or put another way, what is our story … our unique story. It was both a challenging and enriching two days. At the end of it everyone stopped, looked at our Monostory and said, “Wow. This is us”. The process was amazing. Sam is super skilled. It may be two of the most fruitful days I have had in my 17 years as CEO.”

    Ben - CEO

  • “Sam is an engaged and experienced facilitator who gets the best out of every participant and the group. I’ve been part of many vision and value processes (facilitating them myself with mixed results)… but Sam’s Monostory model and skill is exceptional.”

    Russell - DIRECTOR

  • “Before working with Sam I was frustrated when communicating my brand with designers. As a result, I wasted money, revision after revision. In one session with Sam, she helped me to get crystal clear on how I should communicate my values to everybody from designers to employees. I can honestly say it has saved me money, time and hassle. I would highly recommend small business owners work through this process with Sam.”

    Adrian - SME BUSINESS OWNER

  • “Sam was an absolute pleasure to work with. She is insightful and quick to understand organisational history, limitations and needs to adapt/change. Sam has the exact right balance between collaborative work, strategy, and task-oriented output. She has extensive experience and contacts, and she brings these to bear for the well-being and advancement of her clients and the people they are looking to support. I cannot recommend her highly enough."

    Sheridan - Director

  • I feel deeply grateful for the gift of having been taken through a Personal Monostory. Thank you for using your gifts, your formidable gifts. Thank you for so patiently working through my Monostory with me. Your ability to walk with people is impressive!!" 

    Ben - CEO

  • “Sam made an invaluable contribution to the strategic and creative development processes across the McCann WorldGroup. One of the reasons why I work is the chance to do stuff with people like Sam. She is a bright light that shines wherever she goes, full of enthusiasm, interest in others, and a love for what she does. I would fully recommend Sam to anyone who is considering using her services.”

    Richard - STRATEGIC DIRECTOR

  • The work Sam does is deep, human, and leads to powerful practical outcomes.

    Jon - STRATEGIST

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