About Us
Amy O’Leary, Partner
Amy (she/her) has spent her career at the intersection of storytelling, strategy, and digital innovation. She is passionate about how the right narratives can solve the world’s toughest problems. At The New York Times, she co-authored the newsroom’s groundbreaking Innovation Report that shaped the paper’s digital strategy for a decade.
She later served as Chief Story Officer at Upworthy, leading a teams of over 40 digital creators to reach hundreds of millions of people on progressive, values-driven storytelling.
Amy has launched media organizations, shipped multi-million dollar media products, rebooted a philanthropy, and specializes in bringing early-stage ideas and concepts to life.
She is a strong advocate for supportive workspaces and is the adaptive anchor to her brilliantly neurodivergent family.
Kate Speer, Partner
Kate (she/her) is both a strategist and a creator whose work has reached millions — but just as importantly, a survivor and advocate for those with serious mental illness.
She first gained national attention through viral storytelling on Instagram, where her honest posts about survival reached audiences in the millions. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kate manages a 1,200-member creator cohort that brings science-backed messaging to social media.
Before being recruited there, she was the CEO who grew The Dogist into a multi-million dollar business. Kate is also the founder of The Healing Lab, a fast-growing online community and Substack newsletter that democratizes access to mental health resources.
Michael Ivory, Jr., Strategist
Michael Ivory, Jr. (he/him) is a writer who combines his artistic practice and lived experience to ignite the liberating power of imagination.
As a Black queer Southern man who lives with a chronic illness, he weaves together his rich background to storytell in service of connection, empathy, and paradigm shifting. Michael has done this as a trusted advisor to nonprofit and university leaders, helping them deepen their justice practice by focusing on their experiences of marginalized people.
Michael also manages a network of platforms and workshops comprising over 40,000 listeners, readers, watchers, and learners exploring how to wield the power of storytelling for personal and collective wellbeing. When he is not teaching and storytelling online, he is spending his time revising his novel manuscript, performing poetry around Philadelphia, and sharing a laugh with friends.