Founder and principal advisor
Hassan Anjum
Hassan Anjum advises leadership teams at established and growing technology companies on company positioning, leadership narrative alignment, product and portfolio strategy, and investor, board, and transaction narratives.
Vizianary exists because the hardest positioning problems are not language problems. They are decisions a leadership team has postponed — usually because making the decision means giving something up.
Hassan Anjum's experience spans category creation, emerging technology, platform strategy, ecosystem growth, and executive narrative alignment. Much of that work happened before the market had vocabulary for the products involved, which is where positioning stops being a communications exercise and becomes a strategic one.
Client engagements are held in confidence. The work is described by the decision that had to be made rather than by the companies involved.
Where the experience was built
- Defining unfamiliar technology categories before buyers had language for them.
- Building commercial ecosystems and route-to-market programs around experimental platforms.
- Aligning complex multi-product portfolios around one market story.
- Translating technical capability into decisions customers, partners, and investors could act on.
- Preparing executive teams to explain the company consistently to boards, investors, and employees.
How he works
- Listen before diagnosing. The stated request is rarely the decision that has to be made.
- Separate the communication symptom from the underlying positioning or alignment issue.
- Recommend a position leadership can hold under pressure, not a phrase that reads well once.
- Leave the decision with the executives who own it.
Slides are evidence of thinking. Judgment is the product.
Written by the practice
Selected Writing
Company positioning
Positioning Is a Leadership Decision, Not a Marketing Exercise
Read the article →Company positioning
How Growing Companies Outgrow Their Original Story
Read the article →Leadership alignment
The Cost of Five Executives Telling Five Different Stories
Read the article →Leadership alignment
Messaging Problem or Strategy Problem? How to Tell the Difference
Read the article →Company positioning
Repositioning After Product-Market Fit
Read the article →Investor narratives
How to Build an Investor Narrative Without Resorting to Hype
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The Next Important Decision Deserves More Than Another Deliverable
If your company has outgrown its original story—or leadership is not yet aligned on what comes next—start with a focused strategic conversation.

