Indigenous Storyteller | Intuitive Strategist

Charlene ‘CJ’ SanJenko is an Indigenous storyteller, intuitive strategist and media visionary. Her work as an artist of impact and narrative-futuring is guided by ancestral wisdom and a 25-year foundation in transformation, embodied leadership, and experiential design.

Narrative-futuring with CSJ

We are in a moment where narrative is shaping reality at scale.
And yet, storytelling is still treated as content rather than for its transformative power to shift, heal, and regenerate our future.

Future-Visioning Circles

Expand your perspective with a generational approach. Align who you are with where you’re going; not just what you say, but what is experienced as your living legacy

Transformative Integration

Advisory + guided integration; the story becomes the transformative process and the product

Innovation Narrative Design

An innovative future-focused narrative systems approach designed for internal-first and external coherence; clarity across teams, stakeholders, and audience

Aligning Values with Embodied Identity

Technology tools and progressive resources to support you and your team’s journey

Impact Storytelling and Regenerative Media

Impact storytelling + regenerative media creation designed to extend, embody, and amplify our work

New Narratives for New Pathways Forward

What emerges: clarity of identity, alignment across teams and leadership; and a narrative people can live into, not just hear

Closing The Integrity Gap

The Integrity Gap is the distance between what an individual or organization say they stand for, and what is actually experienced. This is where trust erodes. Energy leaks. Potential dissipates. Impact stalls.

Narrative-futuring seeks a new approach

  • Moving beyond messaging work
  • Storytelling as infrastructure for transformation
  • An inside-out process

Work with CSJ

  • Align identity, intention, and action to step into a share future that is regenerative
  • Build your belief by connecting with creativity, intuition, and guidance
  • Expand beyond your current state

“Working with Charlene has reconnected me with my creativity. I have benefited from the approaches I have practiced with Charlene and cultivated by the way she holds space, in all aspects of my life – professional and personal – to create more connection and bring more intentionality to progress my vision rooted in my values.”

Ainaz Bozorgzadeh, P.Eng., M.A., IRP

professional engineer and project director

Upcoming 2026 Touchpoints

April 21 – 23: Northwest Native Economic Summit Ridgefield, WA

April 27 – 30: Women Deliver, Melbourne, AU

May 1: Table of Twenty – by invite short film screening & conversation – Saunders Place, Melbourne, AU

May 2: Coming Home for the Children – Cinema Nova, Melbourne, AU – short film screening

May 11-14: Web Summit – Vancouver, BC

Watch, Read, Listen