Storytelling as Legacy Infrastructure

For families navigating succession, identity and cohesion - and for the advisers who support them - legacy planning is about more than financial architecture.

Big Stories Little Films brings narrative context into family business and family office systems.

Storytelling as Functional Infrastructure

In sophisticated family systems, storytelling is no longer discretionary or sentimental.
It is being reclassified as infrastructure.

  • A shared reference point across generations

  • A container for values, context and lived experience

  • A continuity tool during succession, migration or change

  • Preservation of voice and intent — not just facts

As families become more global and more complex, informal storytelling is no longer sufficient.

Families Best Served by This Work

  • Founder-led or early-generation leadership (business and/or wealth)

  • Strong identity linked to lived experience

  • Families navigating succession or transition

  • Migration, diaspora or displacement narratives

  • Families engaged in philanthropy, impact, or community leadership

Deliberate exclusions

This work is not designed for transactional, finance-only environments, branding exercises, or scale-driven platforms.
Alignment and readiness are prerequisites.

How Big Stories Little Films Operates

  • Adviser-introduced engagements

  • Bespoke documentary process

  • Emotional safety and discernment

  • Creation of enduring, revisitable artefacts

The films are designed to be returned to over time, retaining relevance as family members age and roles evolve.

  • Reduces non-financial legacy risk

  • Supports governance and succession outcomes

  • Strengthens intergenerational cohesion

  • Complements existing advisory frameworks

  • Introduces no professional overlap

Why Family Businesses and Family Offices Engage

At a certain level of complexity, the limiting factor is no longer capital. It is cohesion, identity and continuity.


Big Stories Little Films preserves the one asset families cannot afford to lose:

their story.

One-page brief (PDF): Storytelling as Legacy Infrastructure — for advisers and enterprising families exploring story as continuity infrastructure.
Download the brief

Engagements are referral-based and selectively accepted.