Learn to tell the stories your mission deserves.
Self-paced courses that teach your team the frameworks, techniques, and workflows behind agency-level visual storytelling — so you can do it yourselves.
Most impact organizations know they should be telling stories. Few know how.
You have powerful stories happening every day — in your programs, in your communities, in the lives you touch. But without the frameworks and skills to capture them, they stay invisible.
Academy bridges that gap. Not with theory, but with practical tools your team can use the same week they learn them.
Three courses. One complete skillset.
Each module builds on the last — from finding and structuring stories, to producing professional content, to distributing it everywhere your audience lives.
Storytelling Foundations
Find stories hiding in your programs and tell them with structure, empathy, and power.
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Visual Production Basics
Shoot interviews, B-roll, and on-location content that looks and sounds professional — even on a phone.
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Content Strategy & Distribution
Turn one production day into months of content across every platform your audience uses.
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Whether you're producing content with us or building in-house capacity, these courses help your team tell better stories.
Communications Directors
Build storytelling systems that outlast any single campaign.
Executive Directors
Learn the language of narrative so you can lead it across your organization.
Program Managers
Surface the stories happening in your programs every day.
In-House Content Teams
Level up from documentation to storytelling.
From first lesson to first story
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Create your free account. Academy is included with every RiseWorks plan — or start with Storytelling Foundations on its own.
Learn at your pace
Self-paced video lessons, hands-on exercises, and AI-powered coaching that adapts to your role and experience level.
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Every exercise uses your real content. By the end, you have frameworks and assets you can use immediately.
AI-Powered Learning
Every exercise comes with a personal AI coach.
Story Coach gives you feedback on your writing. Critique Lab analyzes your narratives for structure and emotion. Adaptive Bridge explains concepts in the context of your actual role. It's like having a mentor available 24/7.
Ready to tell better stories?
Start with Storytelling Foundations — free for all RiseWorks subscribers. No credit card required.