Sarita Palacio

Narrative consulting

Narrative consulting

For city governments, companies, foundations and social projects that need to explain a complex decision so people understand it, make it their own and retell it.

Sarita Palacio with her hand raised, at the computer
Writing with judgment, also with artificial intelligence

Narrative consulting

The concept that gives order to a project, the strategy to tell it, and the analysis of what people say about you in the public conversation. I work with the leadership team until the story is clear to everyone.

For city governments, companies, foundations and social projects.

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City of Medellín

The narrative of the land-use plan

With the Duende team I led the narrative of the land-use plan revision: how to tell a whole city, in its own language, the plan that decides where it lives and how it grows.

Cooperation and government

PAHO/WHO Guatemala and Government of Antioquia

I was an advisor to the Pan American Health Organization in Guatemala and worked on clean-vote campaigns for the Government of Antioquia.

With Duende

When a full team of journalists, designers and producers is needed, the project goes to the agency I lead. I stay on as narrative director.

For campaigns, reports and city narratives.

Meet Duende

How I work

It is the method I teach in my classes and the one I use when I write. Six steps, always in this order. The most important part happens before anything is designed.

See the full method

  1. 01. Listen to the person

  2. 02. Find the tension

  3. 03. Data, meaning, proof

  4. 04. Tell it

  5. 05. The second journey

  6. 06. Design comes last

Before hiring me

When is it a job for you and when for Duende?

A keynote, a consultancy, a text or an edit I do myself. A campaign, a report or a city narrative that needs a full team is done with Duende, and I stay on as narrative director.

How do you quote?

By format and scope. Write to me with the date, the audience and the duration, and I will answer with a proposal.

Which languages do you work in?

Spanish and English.

Shall we talk?

Tell me what you need, when and for whom. It goes straight to my inbox and I answer personally.

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Other ways to work with me

Talks

Storytelling, public communication, cultural change and artificial intelligence, for auditoriums and classrooms.

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Writing

Columns, speeches, content delivered to your door and editing of AI-written text.

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Method

Six steps and two journeys: how I build a story.

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Articles

Columns, essays and chronicles under my name.

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