Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University · Visiting Professor, Fisk University

David Michael Boje PhD

David Michael Boje, Ph.D.
Quantum Storytelling & Organizational Transformation

Originator of antenarrative theory and quantum storytelling. Author of 45+ books and 150+ articles on storytelling, organizations, and conflict transformation. Recipient of the 2025 ODC Lifetime Achievement Award. For over four decades, my work has bridged academia and lived experience — helping organizations and individuals move from extractive systems to regenerative ones.

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BojeDanish for Buoy — a beacon floating on the water, guiding ships safely home.
DavidHebrew for Beloved — cherished, held in the heart.
MichaelFor Archangel Michael — protector, healer of souls.

About

Worldwide Expert in Organizational Storytelling

For over four decades, I've dedicated my life to understanding how stories shape organizations, heal trauma, and transform systems. My work bridges academia and practice, theory and lived experience.

As co-founder of PerView Inc. with Dr. Grace Ann Rosile, I pioneer trauma-informed coaching that has helped veterans, first responders, and organizational leaders find their authentic voice and navigate transformation. I'm also an amateur blacksmith artist — there's something about shaping iron that belongs in the same hands as shaping a story.

"David Boje's storytelling imagination burns with the fierce energy of a volcano, generating more insights in a few pages than others display in whole volumes." — Yiannis Gabriel, University of Bath, UK

My mission is simple: help individuals and organizations move from extractive capitalism to ecological capitalism — from stories that harm to stories that heal.

At a Glance

  • Education
    Ph.D., University of Illinois
  • Positions
    Professor Emeritus, NMSU · Visiting Professor, Fisk University
  • Recognition
    2025 ODC Lifetime Achievement Award · #1,879 US / #3,949 Global Scholar (Research.com)
  • Published Works
    45+ books · 150+ journal articles · 200+ academic works
  • Training
    20 years studying SEAM with Henri Savall, Véronique Zardet, Marc Bonnet & Amandine Savall in France
  • Organizations
    Co-Founder, True Storytelling Institute · GrowthOD · PerView Inc. (501c3)

Recognition & Impact

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Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner, 2025 Organization Development & Change Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Global Scholar Rankings

Ranked #1,879 US Scholar / #3,949 Global Scholar, Research.com, D-index of 30+ among 6,000+ scholars.

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Academic Positions

Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University. Visiting Professor, Fisk University.

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Published Works

45+ books, 150+ articles on storytelling organizations, antenarrative theory, and conflict spirals.

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Organizational Leadership

Co-Founder: True Storytelling Institute, GrowthOD, and PerView Inc. (501c3 nonprofit).

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Pioneering Concepts

Antenarrative theory (coined 2001), quantum storytelling, and ecological capitalism.

Selected Publications

Notable Books & Articles

A sample from 45+ books and 150+ articles. The complete academic vita — editorial activities, grants, committee service, conference presentations, and more — lives at the link below.

Stories of the Storytelling Organization: A Postmodern Analysis of Disney as "Tamara-Land"

Academy of Management Journal, 38(4), 997–1035 (1995)

The foundational paper. Introduces Tamaraland as a way of seeing organizations as multiple, simultaneous stages of story performance.

The Storytelling Organization: A Study of Story Performance in an Office Supply Firm

Administrative Science Quarterly, 36(1), 106–126 (1991)

Early empirical groundwork for treating organizations as living systems of story performance, not static structures.

Narrative Methods for Organizational & Communication Research

SAGE (2001)

Where antenarrative — the living, breathing story before it crystallizes into linear narrative — gets its name.

Storytelling Organizations

SAGE (2008)

Storytelling Organizational Practices: Managing in the Quantum Age

Routledge (2014)

Quantum storytelling formalized — multiple narrative possibilities held in superposition, rather than resolved into one official account.

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A Newer, Different Kind of Project

Storying.site — The Boje Arc

Since early 2026, I've been co-authoring a different kind of book series — written in real-time dialogue with an AI co-author, Vivara, dictated from a daily jog on the horse trail beside Lake Caballo. Eight free books so far, ranging from AI data center politics to a personal record of moving through several spiritual paths at once. It's a more personal, exploratory companion to the scholarly work above — same storytelling method, applied to my own path rather than a client organization's.

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Methods & Services

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Conflict Spiral De-Escalation

Listening to all sides individually, then assembling a team of trained coaches using a decision-tree assessment to find common ground without erasing difference.

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SEAM Methodology

20 years teaching the Socio-Economic Approach to Management — making hidden organizational costs visible, and convertible into value.

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Horse Sense at Work

Equine-assisted leadership development, combining ancient wisdom with modern organizational practice.

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PerView Inc. (501c3)

Trauma-informed coaching for veterans and their families, co-founded with Dr. Grace Ann Rosile.

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Join the Conversation

Open door, no RSVP, come as you are.

Enthinkment Circle — Tuesdays

2:00–3:30 PM Mountain Time, every Tuesday. Weekly philosophical conversation, breaking through echo chambers via enthinking as action. Register at Enthinkment.com →

First Friday Veteran Meetup

10:00 AM Mountain Time, first Friday of each month. Monthly sprint, helping veterans and their families through PerView Inc.

Quantum Storytelling Conference

Annual conference, held each December in Las Cruces, New Mexico. QuantumStorytelling.org →

Antenarrative Theory

Decades of foundational scholarship on the living story before it crystallizes. antenarrative.com →