Brighton and Hove Group: Pitch Me Perfect!

Join the Brighton and Hove Group on Thursday 2 October from 1pm for a pitching masterclass with pitching and presentation skills coach Sasha Damjanovski. Please note this session will focus primarily on verbal pitching, so there’s no need to prepare anything.

Whether you are writing, starting up a business, trying to win contracts, chances are you will be doing an awful lot of pitching! So, how good is your pitch? Do you walk into a session with a smile and come out with an offer to take things further, or do you go in petrified and leave dissatisfied?

The skills required for pitching and presenting your ideas can be learned easily. Better still, you can learn to tailor your delivery to the needs and sensibilities of the audience, the organisational or market climate you’re pitching in, and your own personality.

Come and learn how to identify the hook of your project and how to make it exciting to others. Learn how to prepare well and how to deliver a perfect pitch in different circumstances. Learn how to deal with nerves, how to show authenticity, create a connection with your audience. Find out what is more powerful than PowerPoint. 

Meeting structure:
Part 1 PREPARATION
__ finding the hook
__ structuring the different elements
__ identifying the audience and adapting
__ pitching a project vs pitching oneself
__ practicing variations, testing
__ concerns (negative feedback, stealing ideas, etc)

Part 2 SHOWTIME
__ demonstrating authenticity
__ building a connection with the audience
__ use of voice and body language
__ how to use AV, props, gimmicks or nothing at all
__ adapting to changed circumstances
__ dealing with nerves, confidence hacks etc

An award-winning filmmaker, Sasha has over 30 years experience writing, directing and producing film, TV, theatre and business communication projects. He has received multiple awards, critical acclaim and audience appreciation for his work, which has been distributed in cinema, and shown on TV, at film festivals and on stage. He’s currently writing a sci-fi comedy series “House of T”. As a coach and educator, Sasha works with a variety of corporate and individual clients. He is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins (UAL), and collaborates regularly with the National Film and Television School, CreativeHQ and Story Compound among other UK and international organisations.

We’ll meet in the The Regency Town House, 13 Brunswick Square, Hove, BN3 1EH. Tea, coffee and biscuits, including gluten free biscuits and cow, almond and soy milk, will be provided by group organiser Rebecca for a donation of £2 by cash or via SumUp.

The Regency Town House is a charity and lets us meet here very cheaply, so please make a donation as you leave if you’re in a position to do so.

All members welcome! 

To join us, click the Going button below and enter your details in the RSVP form so we know how many people to expect.