HTE414
Pitch Don’t Kill My Vibe // Startup Storytelling, Public Speaking Skills & Negotiation Masterclass
Faculty Profiles
Bianca Praetorius
Startup Pitch & Public Speaking Expert. Entrepreneurial Activist & TV host.
Malte Prien
Serial Entrepreneur
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Skills you’ll learn
Overview
Pitching your technology, your company or yourself is hard. Complexity doesn’t like to be put in a 3 minute pitch, but often that’s all the time there is. Public speaking can become tortuous. How can I boil down complex topics to the precise essence, without losing all the depth? How do I stop my voice from being shaky? How do I survive powerplay in job interviews and investment negotiations? Well, guess what, life’s a pitch. In these 3 weeks, you’ll be getting a deep understanding of your own individual presentation skill set and your communication patterns in a conversation. You’ll learn about body language, how to use powerpoint powerfully and how to hack your own spoken word into something worth listening to.
Learning highlights
- Learning how to create a professional presentation deck, and deliver your topic in simplicity.
- Being aware of your own individual pitching style and understand the psychology behind it.
- Being prepared for real-life conversation with your future employee or business partner.
Course outline
15 classes
The pain & gain of public speaking.
Overview of course. Basic facts
Owning your space, physically.
Conversational waterboarding
Owning your space, acoustically.
The Voice and how to be heard
Startup Pitches.
The tale of Stage & Slide deck storytelling
Using personas to widen your comfort zone
and hacking your storytelling self
Startup Pitches.
The tale of Stage & Slide deck storytelling
An ode to products, business models and market sizes. Startup Pitches and their needs
Video analytics of conversational waterboarding
The nature of the spoken word.
Linguistic structures and patterns
Creating movies and words.
Visual hacks for powerpoint II
Learning from an actor.
Exploring stage personas
Understanding the mechanics of stage fright
and insecurity
Powerposing, meditation, anti-mumble-hacks. A toolkit for talking
Being your authentic authority.
Stepping it up while keeping it real
Life's a pitch and then you die.
The grand slam of final presentations
Prerequisites
N/A
Bianca Praetorius is an actress by trade and a Public & Personal Speaking coach since 2012. She trained over 1800 Tech Startup Pitches for Startups in Germany, Europe and the middle east. For Startup Bootcamp, Alchemist Accelerator, Plug&Play and many more.
Bianca is the resident Storytelling Coach for various TEDX cities. She co-founded one company, and two political innovative parties german and one pan-european one. She co-wrote a book about female Leadership and hosted the 3rd season of “Founders Valley” for DWtv. is a happy member of the sandbox.is network and has a soft spot for trees, progressive politics and all things automation.
See full profileMalte Prien is an entrepreneur, coach and trainer. He is specialized in enabling entrepreneurial thinking and innovative business strategies. He is a trained personal and business coach (ECA certified), scrum product owner and scrum master (SCRUM alliance certified) and founder of several businesses.
He is facilitating digital transformation journeys for international cooperations and is lecturing entrepreneurship, innovation and communication at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.
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Pitch Don’t Kill My Vibe // Startup Storytelling, Public Speaking Skills & Negotiation Masterclass
by Bianca Praetorius, Malte Prien
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Jul 29 - Aug 16, 2019
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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