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Identity Strategy Consulting for Founders and Leadership Teams

Some organisations just feel different.

You can tell within minutes of speaking to the people inside them. There's a quality to how they think, how they listen, and how they treat the work. They care about getting it right more than getting it done. They are clear on what they stand for and they build everything around that.

Story Of Me exists to help more organisations become that kind of place.

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My journey to this work

I'm Thelma Dhlovu, founder of Story Of Me. I chose a degree that sat across two schools. Business on some days, fashion on others. A First Class in Fashion Management and Marketing, built deliberately to keep me in both. Then I got the job I had wanted since I was thirteen. Hugo Boss. New York. Leading visual storytelling for a house I had studied from the outside. I used to pinch myself on the way in. The better I did the job, the more one thing I became. Visual merchandising. Fashion. The one with the eye. All true. Half of what I had trained for. So I left, and went after the other half. What a business is, before anyone decides how to sell it. At The Cheeky Panda, a bamboo product became a sustainability business with a supply chain behind it. At Nuapay, a payments brand widened to reflect the range of people it served, in depth and in structure. It survived the acquisition intact. At Mandarin Blueprint, the founder's own expertise became resources sold alongside the courses, priced and structured so customers got more from what they had already bought, and saw themselves in it. At Qflow, a construction data platform known for its sustainability work made its value visible across quality and finance too. Four sectors. The same pattern each time. Each one known for the part that was easiest to explain. Every one of those descriptions was written from outside the business. I know how that works from the inside. I am read as one thing before I have said anything, and I have watched a category come apart the moment someone is given room to speak. Most organisations get one hearing. A homepage. A line in someone else's deck. Thirty seconds in a meeting they are not in. Whatever is decided in those thirty seconds tends to hold. Story Of Me exists so that the version of you which reaches people is the full one. The one that holds steady across everything you say, do and decide.

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The clients we work with

We are proud of who we work with. Genuinely.

Qflow are digitising construction site data to reduce carbon waste and improve quality across an industry that urgently needs both. IT and General are working tirelessly to bring cybersecurity and firewall protection to education institutions that cannot afford to be left exposed. The Cheeky Panda started with bamboo and a belief that everyday products do not need to cost the planet.

What connects them isn't an industry or a size. It's a genuine commitment to building something that makes a difference.

That is the common thread. Not an industry or a size. A commitment to building something worth building.

We work with founders and leadership teams who care deeply about the organisation they are creating, and want the way they communicate and make decisions to reflect that honestly.

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The kind of organisation we are building

I started Story Of Me because I wanted to do work I was proud of, with people I respected, for clients who cared as deeply about their work as I cared about mine. That sounds simple. It is harder to hold onto than it sounds. The people who work with and within Story Of Me are ones who value honesty, clarity, kindness, and hard work. People who genuinely want to help. Who care about quality not because they have to but because associating their name with anything less feels wrong. Who want to keep learning and who take real satisfaction in doing something well. We are not the biggest. We are not the loudest. We are obsessive about the quality of the work, about how we treat every person connected to what we do, and about staying true to why we started. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to work with, or work within, you are in the right place.

How we work

Through the Alignment Arc, our approach to identity strategy, we help organisations clarify what defines them, express it in language that is honest and usable, and align their strategy and communication around it.

It is not a quick fix. It is structured, collaborative work that asks good questions and takes the answers seriously.

Every engagement starts with listening. Everything built from that point reflects what is actually true.

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Vision

A world where organisations grow from clarity about who they are, not pressure to be everything to everyone.

Where leadership teams can explain what makes them who they are in a single sentence, and every decision, from strategy to communication, reflects that honestly.

Mission

Story Of Me exists to help organisations get clear on what defines them and build everything around that clarity.

That means connecting what you believe with how you show up. In your story, your strategy, and your everyday decisions.

Principles

We know what we're building. Come and be part of it.

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Truth before
tactics

We clarify what is genuinely true before shaping strategy, communication, or brand expression around it.

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Clarity over cleverness

We replace vague or complicated language with simple words people can understand, remember, and repeat.

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Alignment drives growth

We bring identity, communication, and strategy into alignment so teams move with confidence and decisions become easier.

A few things you might be wondering...

Thinking that's worth your time.

Occasional writing on identity, communication, and the decisions that shape how organisations are understood.

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Story Of Me is an identity strategy and brand clarity consultancy. We help organisations clarify what makes them distinctive and turn that clarity into strategy, communication and decisions that guide how they grow.

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