Brian Holaway

I started Simply Told because I’ve spent my whole life noticing what others walk past — the sign that confuses instead of welcomes, the meeting where half the room never speaks, the person who needs someone to say “your story is true, and we start from there.”

I close the empathy gap. 

I do it through design, through facilitation, through helping people understand themselves well enough to understand each other. I’ve spent 25 years making other organizations’ stories clear. This is the work I was always doing underneath all of it.

I cultivate space to imagine & create human-centered ideas that change lives.

I thrive on thinking critically and analytically, while understanding all sides to achieve equitable and diverse outcomes. I’m a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) Certified Facilitator and Certified Enneagram Typing Professional (CETP) through The Narrative Enneagram.