Communication strategy at the intersection of corporate purpose and philanthropic impact.
Our Story
Most organisations are doing more than they can clearly articulate. The work is real. The ambition is genuine. But purpose sits beside strategy, not inside it, and the people who most need to understand what the organisation stands for — employees, partners, donors, clients — are working from fragments rather than a whole.
The story is already there. In the work, the ambition, the people. What's missing is the communication architecture that makes it legible — to every audience, across every context, consistently enough to be believed.
That architecture is what we build.
David-Narby Advisory takes its name from something deliberate. DNA — the initials — mirrors what we do: we help organisations embed purpose so deeply into how they communicate that it stops being a programme and becomes part of their identity. Not bolted on. Believed in.
We work at the intersection of two worlds that need each other and rarely speak the same language: the corporate organisations building purpose-led strategies, and the foundations, family offices, and philanthropic institutions working to engage the audiences those strategies are meant to reach.
We speak both languages fluently. And we build the communication strategies that make those conversations work.
How we work
Assess
We listen to your people, audit your narratives, and map the gap between what you intend to communicate and what your audiences actually hear.
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Align
We bring your stakeholders — leadership, teams, partners — around a shared, coherent narrative. This is often where the most valuable work happens: in the room where the parts of an organisation finally speak to each other.
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Strategise
We build the communication architecture that makes your purpose precise, consistent, and credible across every audience that matters.
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Execute
We build capability inside the organisation — so the work continues long after the engagement ends.
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For Corporates & ESG Teams
You are doing serious work that isn't landing the way it should. The ESG report doesn't reflect the ambition. The purpose statement hasn't reached the people. The DEI commitments are genuine but the language isn't trusted. We come in, connect the dots, and build the communication layer that makes your sustainability work impossible to ignore.
For Foundations, Family Offices & Wealth Institutions
Your grassroots fundraising works. But UHNW donors and corporate partners operate by a different logic — different channels, different triggers, different expectations. We bring The Lens: a proprietary research and segmentation framework that maps your donor landscape and equips your team to engage the right people, in the right way, with the right language.
Meet the Founder
David-Narby Advisory was founded by Ioana David-Narby — communications strategist, former BCG and WPP senior advisor, and board trustee for Foundation Conservation Carpathia. A decade at the intersection of corporate strategy and social purpose. Based in Zürich, working globally.