H. Y. Story is an independent consultant. She started her career in brand management at Landor Associates of WPP. She later became the office lead strategist and Strategy Director of Siegel + Gale, an Omnicom brand consulting firm. After serving clients such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell, P&G, Rotary Institute, J.Crew, she left the agency business to focus on methodology innovation and a new type of brand consulting, as introduced in this book. She graduated from the Lew Klein College of Media and Communication (formerly School of Communications and Theater) of Temple University, USA, as one of the youngest Ph.D.s in the history of the College. Prior to that, she obtained her Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. She has lived in nine cities in five time zones.