Impactful Pitching for Startups

21 August 2023 09:00-12:00 CEST

About the Workshop

This workshop is designed to help you overcome your pitching challenges.

In three hours, our workshop expert walks you through structured pitch development process:

From fluff to structure
From structure to story
From story to engagement

Bonus 1: Learn how to borrow Hollywood screenwriting secrets to make your pitch more compelling, more memorable.
Bonus 2: Interact with other founders in the workshop & follow each other’s journey.
Workshop price is SEK 980 + VAT.
Join digitally from anywhere in the world.

Who can Benefit from the Workshop

Entrepreneurs, startup founders, co-founders
Intrapreneurs / professionals who want to share ideas to management and board
Professionals working in partnerships & collaborations or whose job involves public speaking
Anyone who wants to pitch ideas or speak in public

Workshop Outline

Hour 1: From fluff to structure

Before you even think about slides you need to first build a strong foundation. What is your central idea? What is your goal? Why do we pitch anyway?
Starting from the idea you can start to build a meaningful structure to make your pitch compelling.
Why templates work, how to deliver what the audience expects and avoid clichés.

Hour 2: From structure to story

Why narrative structure and storytelling techniques resonate with the audience.
Basic storytelling secrets from Hollywood screenwriters.
Techniques to make your pitch impactful and memorable.

Hour 3: From Story to engagement

Getting “unplugged” — the story first approach..
Practical methods to capture the attention of the audience
How to test and “evolve” your pitch to make it more powerful, memorable and effective.

Workshop Instructor

Andrew Hennigan
Pitching Expert & Startup Coach

Andrew Hennigan is a leading pitch coach and startup advisor in the Nordic region. He first became interested in the problem as a freelance journalist where a weekly tech column led him to interview hundreds of startup founders. Many founders, he found, struggled to make a compelling case for their ideas because they lacked the necessary pitching skills. Currently he works with several accelerators, programs and individual founders and is a top startup & pitch mentor at the Founder Institute Nordics. In addition to his daily work as a speaking and pitching coach, he also has pro bono roles at TEDxStockholm, where he has been a coach since 2015 and is currently head of the speaker team, and in the UNHCR Nordics and Baltics Refugee Speaker Program, where he has volunteered since it started in 2022, coaching refugee speakers and teaching a storytelling workshop.

Organized by

Nordic Venture Academy

events@nuttyventures.com

Nordic Venture Academy is a Nordic learning ecosystem powered by Nutty Ventures AB to accelerate venture building with a series of rapid, interactive and practical workshops by ecosystem experts.

Additional Information

Workshop dynamics

~3 hours digital workshop
Possibility to interact with participants
Possibility to raise questions / share insights

Connecting on the day of the workshop

Join a few minutes early
Test audio / video beforehand
Connect with a computer / laptop with good Internet connection
This is an interactive workshop so join from a well-lit low-noise space
Participants will need to have their video on during the workshop for interactivity
Workshop will not be recorded so do not miss the session

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