Workshops & Speeches

Hands on Learning That Makes a Lasting Impact

I love being in front of an audience, making them laugh, think and act! Whatever the event, the length or the size of the audience, let me ignite the listeners and give them actionable insights that can transform the way they work. All speeches can be transformed into workshops with hands-on training, customized for your unique needs.

The “Sticking to my Story” Workshop Series

Based on the Method from my Best Selling Book, the Ultimate Storytelling Workshop series, for Corporates, Startups, Accelerators and More. Speak to me for a customized Masterclass.

Learn how to apply the simple principles of the age-old art of storytelling to your modern-day business messages to win the hearts and minds of your audience and most importantly – to garner magical influence.

Donna Griffit, an International Corporate Storyteller with 20 years of experience will share the winning ingredients of a brief, powerful story and how it can be formatted into any type of presentation. You will emerge with a simple, yet powerful tool to create stories in many formats, repeatable with any type of content for any medium or audience. Time permitting – a few lucky teams will get to pitch their story and get real time feedback from DonnaGPT ;).

Length – 1.5 – 4 hours, in person or virtual

Audiences – Any organization type of any size in any industry, any roles: Product, marketing, sales, developers, CS and more. Content can be made accessible to all or customized for specific teams.

Especially when it comes to raising your next Round. You only get one shot – make it stellar!

World-renowned Corporate Storyteller and Pitch Alchemist Donna Griffit will share her winning recipe for the RIGHT story needed to get the meetings and the funding.

Topics to be covered:

The foundation and crucial content of a winning pitch deck

What VC’s talk about AFTER you leave the room…
Story-driven pitches that stick
And more…

Tweak your story on the spot: Time permitting, we will have a bonus round where a few companies will pitch their stories and get real time feedback from DonnaGPT ;).

Bottom line – you never know if the next person you meet could change your startup! You want to be armed with the perfect story of your venture at any given moment.

Donna Griffit, an International Corporate Storyteller with 20 years of experience will share insider tips for getting your story straight and sounding great telling it. Time permitting – a few lucky teams will get to pitch their story and get real time feedback from DonnaGPT ;).

Length – 1.5 – 4 hours, in person or virtual

Audiences – Accelerators, fundraising startups, Pitch competitions, conferences and more

Additional Speeches, Workshops and Trainings With Donna

From finding your Personal Brand Story, writing your TEDX Talk, or giving Keynotes that WOW, Let Donna take your event to the next level!

If you can’t sell your own value, nobody else will…

In this workshop participants will:

Identify their core knowledge, talent and skills – the obvious and not so obvious
Discover their own, unique “X Factor” (and EVERYONE has one!)
Create their personal “X Factor” statement to be for performance reviews, LinkedIn summaries, networking, interviews, pitching and more.

Length – 1.5 Hours – 5 hours Audiences – Organizations of all sizes, teams within organizations who want to improve the messaging abilities of their employees, at all levels.

Perfect for women focused activities or for International Women’s Day.

The most meaningful speeches are those that RESONATE, that MOVE you, that feel like an INTIMATE CONVERSATION – even with hundreds or thousands of people in the room.

And the secret? Stories that stick.

If you have an opportunity to be onstage, for a TEDX, Keynote, Pitch or even a 5 minute company overview – you have an opportunity to be UNFORGETTABLE. Make every moment matter.

Donna Griffit, an International Corporate Storyteller with nearly 20 years of experience has created over 1000 powerful presentations – from 1 minutes to full keynotes – that simply captivate audiences. The stories, thoughts and messages are all there – waiting to be pulled out of your mind, untangled, and woven together in a dazzling manner that you never imagined possible. Become the speaker you always dreamed of being…

Length – On a per-case basis

Audiences – C Suite, Executives, Directors, Founders, Experts, Consultants – ANYONE with the opportunity to make their mark on stage with an unforgettable presentation that can be used time and again.

For over 20 years Donna Griffit, Corporate Storyteller and Bestselling Author of “Sticking to my Story” has delighted audiences with the power of storytelling and her hilarious, vivacious delivery. Storytelling is relevant for ALL audiences today, he reason we outlasted the Neanderthals, and the reason we will outlast AI.

All of Donna’s workshops can be adapted to any length – from 20 minutes to half a day – for Keynotes that shine and workshops that sizzle.
Bring the unique “DonnaGPT” flare to your next event!

Length – From 20 minutes to half a day

Audiences – Keynotes and workshops for conferences, Sales Kick Offs, Corporate Events, Competitions, Pitch Events, Demo Days and More. Donna is also a masterful panel moderator.

“Donna has a particular listening skill that is really extraordinary, and she has this intelligence that couples the listening with the understanding of what the other side wants to hear – if it’s investors or customers – she can pick out from what you tell her what the other side needs to hear, what’s interesting and meaningful and motivating for them. And that is incredibly valuable. Since my two sessions with Donna, I know that my pitch is way more persuasive, I feel much more confident, much more clear, and I can shape the pitch depending on the time and the people that I’m speaking to. I attribute so much of this to Donna’s insights.”

“Donna was able to reflect to us a world that we just couldn’t see when we looked at our story from our point of view and she was able to see it in a much simpler way from taking into account, her view of so many other companies and investors and bring all of that together into a very concise feedback that cannot be a misunderstood. And this allowed us very quickly to reevaluate, improve our presentation and go back to the market with a much more precise and clear message.”

“Donna has a unique ability to process data instantly. There’s no back and forth on an idea. Literally within a one hour call window, she is able to assess the concept, break it down, enhance it, apply it to her template and deliver the content you need for every audience. People with no exposure to the concept will quickly understand it once she provides that content. She also has a network of people that can help you with video, graphics, everything that you need A to Z. I think that her ability to process data and extract the meaningful content in a format that’s impactful would be the biggest reason that I would highly recommend using Donna.”

“Working with Donna with this company was one of the best experiences I had in terms of really taking out some of the complexity, but then adjusting the language a bit to really open up the story and make it clear and concise. I was actually able to pitch that story within two days of working with Donna and had one of the best pitches I’ve ever done, even after doing hundreds of pitches in the course of my 10 years as an entrepreneur.”

“When I first knew I was only going to have two hours of her time, it was really hard to think, how could that possibly work? But precisely, after 1 hour and 40 minutes on a call, she was able to pull it off. She was able to understand quickly how Upstay works, our unique selling points, what was important to show on the seven-minute pitch, and she was just writing the text and the visual notes as we went along. she gave me some tips and the confidence I needed to go up on that stage as a strong, well-prepared and capable woman. I delivered the pitch and we ended up winning the Phocuswright Innovation Award (!) which was super important for our company and for my career. I could not have done it without her, to be honest.”

“I must say that working with Donna was an amazing process with a great outcome. I don’t know how, but, in two hours, Donna could bring the extra touch, the best slogan in the best wording, the best concept of how to create our presentation, and the feedback that I got after working with Donna was amazing. Everyone admired our presentation, and it helped us a lot with investors and with colleagues.”

“I was introduced to Donna by one of our investors to work on our Series A pitch strategy. Donna helped us organize the presentation with the right messages in a way that our investors would be as excited about our company as we are. After only two sessions with Donna, both myself and the board came up with a presentation which we are really happy with. If you’re looking to develop a story around your progress and future potential, Donna is the right person to work with.”

“Donna was terrific, we did not know where to start when it came to creating a pitch deck. With Donna’s live one on one interview over the course of a few hours, she was able to capture exactly what our message wanted to convey to our investors. With her help on placing imagery and content on our deck, the result was something we were really proud of. I recommend Donna to all founders and those who are starting up and need something to pitch. She is our number one source moving forward.”

“We met Donna when we were doing our previous funding round and she really assisted us in distilling the core messaging and taking the story and making it much more understandable in a way that the VC could understand. The experience was amazing. I recommend Donna to anyone going through a funding round. You won’t regret it.”

“Although I’m working on my technology for six years and doing very well with the development, I wasn’t able to say or to deliver what we do before I met Donna. Donna practically pulled the vision out of my head, even though it was buried there for quite a few years. Working with Donna, for just two hours, was one of the best professional sessions I experienced. And my business and my work as an Entrepreneur are entirely different after the session with Donna.”

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