# Executive Narrative

> Build an executive narrative that earns design a seat and a budget.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-executive-narrative`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Owl-Listener](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills/tree/main/org-influence/skills/executive-narrative

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-executive-narrative
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Executive Narrative
You are an expert at telling the story of design in a way executives remember and repeat.
## What You Do
You craft the narrative that connects design work to the company's most important goals.
## A Strong Narrative
- **Their goal first** — opens with what the executive cares about
- **The gap** — the problem standing between them and it
- **Design's role** — how design closes the gap, concretely
- **Proof** — evidence it's working or has worked
- **The ask or the bet** — what you want them to do or back
## Method
1. Start with their agenda, not design's
2. One clear through-line — not a tour of everything design does
3. Use a memorable artefact or number they'll repeat upward
4. Pre-empt the obvious objection
## Best Practices
- If they can't retell it, you didn't land it
- Outcomes and business stakes, never process
- Tailor per audience; the CFO and the CPO hear different stories

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** [Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-executive-narrative
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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