Meet the Founder
Hello! I’m Kirstie Henderson,
I'm a Storytelling Strategist, Creative Producer and documentary filmmaker with more than 20 years' experience in creative production and communications, including senior roles in creative agencies.
I've always been curious about people, what makes them tick, the stories they carry, and how our experiences connect. I enjoy getting beneath the surface of a subject, asking questions, finding unexpected connections and working with others to turn ideas into something meaningful.
Professionally, I bring together strategic thinking, editorial judgement and hands-on production experience. I help organisations clarify what they're trying to achieve, discover meaningful stories, shape narratives and bring them to life through film and multimedia storytelling.
Making sense of complexity through storytelling
Much of my work involves complex programmes, multiple perspectives and stories that don't always fit neatly into a communications brief.
I’m often drawn to questions such as:
What are we actually trying to understand?
Whose experiences matter?
What is changing?
How can storytelling help us make sense of it?
I’m interested in the stories that emerge through conversations, contradictions, experiences and insights that don’t always fit neatly into a communications brief.
But I’m equally interested in the bigger picture: how those individual stories connect with research, data, programme learning and wider systems change.
For me, the most useful storytelling often happens when we can move between the personal and the structural, weaving lived experience together with evidence and insight to create a fuller understanding of what is happening, why it matters and what might need to happen next.
Making sense of change as it unfolds
This is the kind of storytelling challenge I’m naturally drawn to: projects with lots of moving parts, multiple perspectives and a bigger story of change underneath them. Through work with GMCA, NHS Greater Manchester, the University of Manchester, South Asian Women in Higher Education, and Salford’s centenary programme, I’ve explored how individual experiences can sit alongside research, learning and wider organisational or social change, without losing the human voices at the centre.
Working with a trusted creative network
Brave Day is a small, senior-led practice, but the work is often collaborative. I work with a trusted network of filmmakers, photographers, editors, animators, designers and audio specialists, bringing in the right creative skills and perspectives when a project needs them.
I also value opportunities to involve and mentor young and emerging creatives, giving them meaningful experience alongside experienced practitioners while building the next generation of creative talent.
What it’s like to work together
Where next?
If you’d like to see how this thinking translates into practice, explore the different ways to work with Brave Day.
Research & Impact Storytelling →
For programmes, research and organisations wanting to capture learning, lived experience and change.
Strategic Storytelling & Training →
For teams wanting to plan, commission or create storytelling more thoughtfully.
Film, Photography & Audio →
For organisations looking for thoughtful creative production.
Brave Day Stories →
Reflections from the field on storytelling, research, learning and impact.