PRESENTATION SCHOOL PRESENTS
STORY STAGE HAMBURG
REAL PEOPLE. TRUE STORIES. TOLD LIVE.
Every person in the room has lived a story you haven't heard.
For one evening, we give some of those stories a stage.
Story Stage is a live storytelling event in Hamburg, bringing people together to share true stories from their own lives.
Come to laugh
Come to listen
Come to feel something
And if the moment feels right, tell us a story of your own.
TRUSTED BY PROFESSIONALS AT GLOBAL INDUSTRY LEADERS
THE EXPERIENCE
Every Room Is Full Of Stories We Haven't Heard Yet.
Stories From Real Life
Funny stories. Difficult stories. Unexpected stories.
Stories about choices, mistakes, relationships, beginnings, endings, courage, embarrassment, loss, joy and the strange things that happen while we're busy living our lives.
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Some will make you laugh.
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Some may make the room completely silent.
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Some might remind you of something you've lived yourself.
And occasionally, someone you've never met will tell a story that stays with you long after the evening is over.
That's Story Stage.
Real people. True stories. Told live, in the room.
No Slides
No screen distractions or bullet points. Just raw human connection.
No Corporate Pitch
Leave your sales pitch at the door. We share real life, not presentations.
Just People Telling Stories
Pure, unscripted live moments worth hearing and remembering.
Hamburg Edition
Reichshof Hamburg · Oct 8, 2026
THIS MONTH'S THEME
"FIRSTS"
Interpret the theme however you like.
Your First Day
First Big Decision
Your First Risk
Your First Love
Your First Failure
First Time Somewhere New
Or simply: The first time something happened that you never forgot.
COME AS YOU ARE
Come As Strangers.
Leave Knowing A Little More About Another Human Being.
You don't have to tell a story to be part of Story Stage.
Come to listen. Come with friends. Come alone.
And if at some point during the evening you realise,
"I have a story", put your name in the hat.
You never know whose name will be called next.
Curated Deep Reading Stack
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Season I: Personal Foundation
Deep Works on Character, Philosophy & Meaning
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Season II: Operating Systems
Habits, Decision Science & Energy Management
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Season III: Intellectual Craft
Product Design, Rhetoric & Keynote Craft
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Season IV: Market Positioning
Commercial Presence, Visibility & Outreach
STRUCTURE & DELIVERY
What makes a story stage story?
TRUE. PERSONAL. YOURS.
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It Happened To You
Tell a true story from your own life. You were there. You were part of what happened.
REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE
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It Mattered To You
Something about the experience mattered. It changed something, challenged you, surprised you, delighted you, cost you or simply stayed with you.
GENUINE SIGNIFICANCE
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5–7 MINUTES
That's your stage. Tell us the story. Keep it focused, sincere, and captivating.
STAGE TIME LIMIT
"Your life is already full of stories. Story Stage simply gives you somewhere to tell one."
THE MOMENT OF THE NIGHT
Story Of The Night
THE AUDIENCE GETS THE FINAL WORD.
At the end of the evening, everyone in the room gets to vote for the story that stayed with them most.
THE INAUGURAL AWARD
Buffet Breakfast at the Reichshof Hamburg
Personal operating system, habits, energy, decision-making and relationship with money.
VOTED BY THE AUDIENCE
REICHSHOF HAMBURG
BUFFET BREAKFAST INCLUDED
Celebrating genuine live human storytelling in the heart of Hamburg.
A DIFFERENT STARTING POINT
We do not start with performance.
We start with the person.
This is a 12-month pathway organised into four fixed seasons. The order is deliberate.
01 · SEASON I
PERSON
Identity, meaning, purpose, character, values and personal foundation.
02 · SEASON II
PROCESS
Personal operating system, habits, energy, decision-making and relationship with money.
03 · SEASON III
PRODUCT
Real speaking offers. Keynotes, workshops, training and labs; designed, structured and tested.
04 · SEASON IV
PUBLISHING
Visibility, positioning, outreach and movement into paid speaking opportunities.
01 · PERSON
SEASON I
The Personal Foundation
Before your speaking becomes stronger, your foundation must become stronger.
We begin with you. Not your slides. Not your stories. You.
This season works on identity, meaning, purpose, character and the personal foundation that will eventually carry your speaking. Heavy technique is deliberately withheld.
Core Goal: A clearer, more solid individual before any performance work begins.
SEASON II
SEASON I
The Operating System
Build the operating system that allows professional speaking to be sustained.
Once the foundation is clearer, we install a reliable personal operating system.
How you run your days, manage energy, make decisions, build habits, and relate to money.
Core Goal: The machinery that allows professional speaking work to be sustained rather than burned through.
03 · PRODUCT
SEASON III
The Offer & Material
Turn your thinking into something an audience can receive.
Only now do we turn to the work of creating real speaking products. Keynotes, workshops, training formats and labs are designed, structured, practised and tested.
Keynoting sits here as a first-class product type. For participants preparing for high-stakes stages, the keynote material can be run with greater intensity.
Core Goal: Where the person and the process become something an audience can receive.
04 · PUBLISHING
SEASON IV
Commercial Delivery
Take the work into the world.
The final season takes the work into the world. Visibility, positioning, outreach, real delivery, and the movement toward paid opportunities.
Core Goal: Refinement happens through actual audiences, not only rehearsal rooms.
STRUCTURE & DELIVERY
Twelve months. Four seasons. Defined outputs.
Absolute Calmness
12 months, organised in four 90-day seasons. Every 90 days: a full-day in-person intensive in Hamburg.
Bi-Weekly Cadence
Between intensives: bi-weekly live online sessions, clear deliverables, structured reading, and focused feedback.
Deliverable-Driven
Not open-ended coaching. You work on defined outputs. Coaching responds to those outputs. Cohorts remain small to protect depth.
DEPTH OVER QUICK TIPS
A professional speaker’s product is knowledge and thinking.
The more substantial the ideas you have worked through, the more weight you bring into every room.
Each season includes one or two serious books, worked deeply, not consumed quickly. This is not extracurricular reading.
"It is part of becoming the kind of person whose speaking has substance, and whose words are worth more than the fee paid for them."
Curated Deep Reading Stack
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Season I: Personal Foundation
Deep Works on Character, Philosophy & Meaning
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Season II: Operating Systems
Habits, Decision Science & Energy Management
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Season III: Intellectual Craft
Product Design, Rhetoric & Keynote Craft
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Season IV: Market Positioning
Commercial Presence, Visibility & Outreach
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Twelve months of work.
A foundation you can use for years.
Clearer Personal Foundation
Values, purpose, standards, and a healthier relationship with money.
Refined Speaking Product
At least one tested speaking product, keynote and/or workshop or training.
Clear Commercial Path
A structured movement toward paid speaking and positioning.
Functioning Personal OS
A reliable operating system that can sustain professional speaking work.
Practical Delivery Experience
Experience delivering, iterating and refining in front of real audiences.
Delegation Clarity
Clarity on which skills to develop yourself and which to outsource.
"This is not a short skills course. It is a foundation you can use for as long as you speak, think and write."
WHAT CHANGES
The ability to develop speakers is not new.
We have worked with people who could not speak in a boardroom to a handful of colleagues. They now speak at conferences as part of their professional roles.
The full Professional Speaker’s Pathway under this four-season structure is new. The underlying ability to develop speakers is not.
The founding cohort will be the first to walk the complete arc from personal foundation to paid professional pathway.
MEET THE FACILITATOR
From Debrecen to Fortune 500 Boardrooms
His path into this work began in Debrecen, Hungary, while studying for his MBA with a focus on franchising. At the time he was already running a fast-food company with more than 40 employees across several locations, with the ambition of scaling it into a major brand.
One Sunday during a church service, a woman noticed he was struggling with the sermon because it was in Hungarian. She began interpreting for him. As they spoke, she remarked on his English and invited him to teach business communication at her language school.
Unknown to him, the school was working with National Instruments, a Fortune 500 company. The participants were middle managers and above.
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What began as continuous sessions with these managers and leaders quickly showed strong results.
Kunle brought his real leadership and operational experience into the classroom, which made the work highly practical. People soon began asking him for private coaching.
That was the beginning of his work in professional communication and presentation training.
Today he works with professionals and teams across Europe who need to present and communicate effectively when the stakes are high.
IS THIS PATHWAY FOR YOU?
Self-Selection & Alignment
This pathway is for you if:
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You want to move from occasional speaking to consistent paid work.
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You are willing to do the personal work before the public stage work.
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You value depth, structure and long-term capability over quick tips.
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You are ready for a serious twelve-month commitment.
This is not for you if:
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You are looking for a short course or quick fix.
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You are not prepared to complete deliverables and engage consistently.
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You want only performance techniques without personal foundation work.
A TWELVE-MONTH COMMITMENT
This is a twelve-month commitment to becoming the kind of person who can sustainably get paid to speak.
FULL PATHWAY INVESTMENT
€15,480
The founding cohort receives closer access and the opportunity to influence how the pathway evolves.
Founding-cohort terms apply only to the September 2026 intake.
FIT, NOT A TRIAL
This is not a program you sample.
It is a twelve-month commitment that requires full participation. Intensives attended, deliverables submitted, sessions engaged.
The selectivity of the application process exists because the work itself demands seriousness from both sides.
There is no blanket refund policy. That is intentional.
A CONDITION FOR THE SEPTEMBER 2026 FOUNDING COHORT
Experience Season I before
committing to Seasons II–IV.
For the founding cohort only, one bounded condition applies:
Complete Season I in full, attend the intensive, submit the required deliverables, attend the bi-weekly sessions, and submit the book review.
The Guarantee: If, at the end of Season I, you do not leave with a clearer personal foundation, the remaining balance for Seasons II–IV will be refunded. You have 14 days from the completion of Season I to request this.
The condition does not extend beyond Season I. This founding-cohort condition exists because the full pathway is new in this structured form. Once the pathway has a completed track record, it will no longer be offered. It is a privilege of the first group, not a permanent feature of the offer.
NEXT STEP
Enrollment is selective.
The process protects the quality of the cohort and ensures mutual alignment.
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Submit Application
Submit a short application outlining your background and speaking intent.
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Brief Conversation
If aligned, you will be invited to a brief, focused conversation with the facilitator.
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Formal
Invitation
If accepted, you will receive a formal invitation to join the founding cohort.
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Pre-Work
Pre-work and orientation begin before the first intensive in Hamburg.