From Grimm to Great
Ancient stories. Modern edge.
See the pattern.
Rewrite the story.
Most leaders reach a point where effort stops being the variable.
They're working. It's working. And something still isn't right.
That's not a performance problem.
That's a story problem.
The Framework
Every pattern has a name. Most people are living inside one they've never been shown.
GRIMM is where you are. GREAT is where you're going. Every edition maps the distance between them.
GRIMM
- G—Guilt
- R—Regret
- I—Indecision
- M—Mediocrity
- M—Misalignment
GREAT
- G—Growth
- R—Resilience
- E—Empathy
- A—Action
- T—Tenacity
Every edition begins in one of these states. Most readers find themselves in the first page — and their next move in the last.
Published Editions
Start where the story finds you.
Five openings. Five diagnoses. None of them polite.
Edition No. 2
Own Your Power — Don't Rent It
Rumpelstiltskin had leverage. He just didn't know what it was worth until he lost it.
Coming Soon
Edition No. 3
Say What Others Won't
What The Emperor's New Clothes reveals about silence — and what it's costing you to stay quiet
Coming Soon
Edition No. 4
You Were Never Behind — You Were Becoming
The Ugly Duckling didn't transform. It relocated. That distinction is worth sitting with.
Coming Soon
Edition No. 5
Own the Story — Before Someone Else Writes It
The Tailor didn't wait to be believed. He wrote the story first. You know what you're waiting for.
Coming Soon
From Grimm to Great
The Weekly Edition
One story. One pattern. One reframe you won't see coming.
Every edition takes a story you already know and shows you something inside it you missed.
A framework. A diagnosis. A question you won't be able to stop thinking about.
Published weekly. Free to start.
Have a story to share — or something you're working through?
Send a note →Tools for the part of you that is ready to act.
The editions show you the pattern.
These help you do something with it.
From the Stories
Go deeper into the patterns behind the editions.
Story-Based Decision Tools
Launching soon
The GRIMM → GREAT Playbook
In development
Leadership Assessment
In development
Apply with AI
Turn insight into action using AI.
GRIMM → GREAT Prompt Collection
Launching soon
The Claude Playbook
In development
AI for Leaders
In development
Why This Exists
This is not self-help. Good.
From Grimm to Great isn't about motivation.
It's about story recognition.
The stories were never meant to inspire you. They were meant to show you something — about power, about fear, about the patterns hiding in plain sight.
Each edition is a diagnostic. A mirror held up at an angle most leadership content won't risk.
No noise. Just old stories, told with a modern lens.
You already know what you're avoiding.
The stories just make it impossible to pretend you don't.