Story for Business Pitch Decks is for anyone with a business idea who would like to learn how to pitch them more effectively. No technical knowledge or special equipment required.

The workshop is suitable if you:

• Pitch ideas to clients but you’re not sure if your presentation is punching through.
• Have a sales proposal but your prospects aren’t reacting to it the way you’d hope.
• Have a great business idea/product and you want investors to take notice.
• Need to discover why your pitches aren’t hitting home – and how to fix them.
• Would like to find out how to create a professional and engaging pitch deck.
• Want to join a friendly and supportive group of learners.
• Can dedicate two live days to the learning.

This professional training allows you to:

• Take your pitching skills to a new level and learn how to look at your idea in a whole new way.
• Use basic design skills to transform your pitch into an exciting visual format.
• Find out what makes a stand-out, highly individual pitch deck.
• Learn how to use appropriate imagery, fonts and design styles to make your idea jump off the page.
• See sample pitch decks and analyse what makes them good or bad.
• Discover exactly what information is needed in a pitch deck – and what to leave out.
• Get tips and hints on how to find the perfect images for your deck and present them in a slick and professional way.
• Find the story within your idea and how to organise your deck around it.
• Move forward with a template that can be applied to all your future ideas.

Workshop 1 (on Zoom) – Discover the blueprint pitch-deck structure that works for any proposal, then learn how to build it using PowerPoint or your preferred equivalent (Photoshop, Keynote etc.).

Between the live sessions, apply the template to your proposal/pitch in your own time, with support from your peers.

Workshop 2 (on Zoom) – Pitch your deck to the workshop tutor for incisive feedback to hone your words and images – and learn new tips and tricks.

Join our alumni

After your course, you can join our online alumni community where you’ll meet our growing network of past students. You’ll be able to.

• Rejoin your classmates in a private forum
• Continue to access an archived version of your course materials
• Meet alumni from other courses and share work for feedback
• Join discussions about screenwriting, script editing and the industry
• Attend live chats with guest writers and industry folk

Mentoring and one-to-one feedback

The John Yorke Story tutor team offer mentoring, script reads and reports. We are happy to quote by job or script, or to arrange a longer mentoring scheme as you work on a specific story idea. We’ll create a package to suit you, so for more information please email [email protected]

Taking things further

If you’d like to take another John Yorke Story course, we’ll give you a discount. Please get in touch for more details.