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Pitch training
You’ve got a revolutionary idea that you want to sell to investors, customers or bosses? Then it’s time to convince them with a kick-ass pitch!Pitching is a key tool in the kit of any good entrepreneur, startup founder, accelerator head, sales person or business event organiser.

We work with countless startups & entrepreneurs all around the world to accelerate their pitching abilities and secure crucial investments.
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Why pitch training?
We’ve all been there. You’re sitting on a gold-plated concept that can disrupt your industry, so you call a meeting to pitch it to potential stakeholders. You’re brimming with enthusiasm and your idea is truly great… yet the pitch fails. Why? You didn’t find the right words to win over your audience. And this is essential if you’re going to deliver a kick-ass pitch!
Fortunately, being able to set out your idea, spin a tight story, highlight the benefits, and play on an audience’s emotions isn’t something you either have or you don’t. It’s a skill you and your team can learn, just like anything else in public speaking.
This is where Berlin Speaking comes in. From elevator pitch to project pitch to startup pitch, our Berlin Speaking pitch training will prepare you and your team for any pitch situation. Whether your focus is on customers, investors or a different audience entirely, we’ll guide you through the fundamentals, the advanced practices, and the nice-to-haves when it comes to wowing decision makers.
With a strong passion for technology & academic background in science, we empower scientists, researchers and tech experts to present data effectively and craft informative presentations for any audience. We offer you the communication skills you need through hands-on sessions designed to provide you with an engaging and informative communication concept for your area of expertise. Whether you have a research proposal presentation coming up or you’re a tech guru looking to pitch a new digital service to investors, Berlin Speaking will teach you how to craft scientific presentations and make you a master communicator of complex concepts.
Pitch training is just right for you if you...
  1. promote products to potential customers
  2. Present project proposals to management
  3. Present innovative technologies to industry experts
  4. present research projects to financing institutions
  5. Praising community projects to sponsors
  6. Present your startup to angel and VC investors
  7. Introduce yourself to future employers
  8. Pitch your freelance services in front of customers
  9. Share your vision in a pitch competition
  10. ... or simply suggest a weekend trip for your loved one!
In addition to these specific applications, our pitch training also focuses on giving you the confidence and skills to be convincing in every situation. Whether you're at a networking event or need to deliver an impromptu pitch in an elevator, our training will prepare you to be ready anytime, anywhere. You'll learn how to present your ideas and products spontaneously yet effectively, even if you only have a few minutes.
Our training is particularly valuable for founders who want to present their startups to investors. We'll show you how to present your business idea clearly and convincingly and how to attract potential investors. You'll learn how to highlight the uniqueness of your company while communicating realistic and achievable goals.
In Berlin Speaking Pitch training, you will:
  1. Get a new perspective on what it means to pitch an idea
  2. research the elements of successful pitches and apply them to your idea
  3. Find the right words to describe your new technology or platform
  4. Set your pitch apart from the competition
  5. Tailor your pitch to the needs of your audience
  6. Avoid the most common mistakes when pitching your vision
  7. Persuade your audience to act directly
  8. Create a framework that allows you to pitch everything right away
  9. Create a compelling pitch that's tailored to your content
  10. Practice with pitches for fun products
If you've experienced Berlin Speaking Pitch training, you know exactly what to say how and when. The next time you walk into a meeting room to present your idea, decision makers will be lining up to support your vision!
In Berlin Speaking Pitch training, we develop your ability to present complex concepts and innovative solutions clearly and concisely. You'll learn how to translate technical details into understandable language and present your ideas in a way that makes them tangible even for laypeople. This is particularly important if you want to bring technical or specialized products to a wider audience.
We'll also focus on how to design your pitch so that it clearly stands out from the competition. We'll show you how to highlight the uniqueness of your offering and how to emphasize the strengths and advantages of your idea over other solutions. By understanding and applying these techniques, you'll experience how to present confidently and authentically to an audience, no matter how complex or dry the content is.
Pitch training formats
Berlin Speaking pitch training is offered both for groups and teams in the form of group seminars and for individuals in the form of individual training. Group seminars are particularly valuable for sales teams within a company, researchers at scientific institutes and founding teams in accelerator and incubator programs. We tailor the pitch training content exactly to your team's goals and pitch context so that you get exactly what your team needs.
Previous projects
Startup Bootcamp Digital Health
During the 3-month accelerator program for digital health startups, I closely accompanied the founders and prepared them for investment pitches to investors and industry experts.
Philips
In order to get innovative projects approved by management, internal teams have learned to present their concepts convincingly.
Falling Walls Foundation
Every year, 20 of the world's best scientific communicators come to Berlin to present their projects to an international audience at the Falling Walls Conference. Since 2018, I have been preparing scientists to stage their engagement projects. Look here the winners.
Pitch training is one of the most important skills good entrepreneurs, startup founders, accelerator managers, sales staff or organizers of business events.
Effective storytelling & presentation training
Effective storytelling is a key aspect of our pitch training. We'll teach you how to build a strong connection with your audience by telling compelling stories. A well-structured pitch that tells a story not only increases attention, but also promotes the emotional engagement of the audience. In our training, you will learn how to use storytelling to bring your ideas or products to life and to convey your messages impressively.
Our pitch trainings also include comprehensive presentation training. We focus on improving your rhetorical skills, with particular emphasis on clarity, precision and persuasion. You'll learn how to support your words by using facial expressions, gestures and body language to strengthen your credibility and presence. We'll show you how to clearly articulate your key messages and communicate them effectively to convince your audience.
Adapting the pitch to different target groups
Each target group has its own needs and expectations. In our training, you will learn how to adapt your pitch to different target groups, be they investors, customers, executives or business partners. We'll cover how to vary your messages depending on the audience to achieve maximum impact. You'll learn how to arouse the interest of different listeners and convince them of your idea or product.