Pitch To Win: the Importance of Public Speaking Skills

Research has shown that public speaking is one of the most effective methods to improve teaching, as well as allows students to make much more progress in school. Increasingly, campaigns are being set up across Europe and the Netherlands to bring public speaking into the school curriculum. How should that take shape in the Dutch curriculum?

David Beckett, an international pitch coach will, based on his new book Pitch to Win, highlight the importance of public speaking and his lessons learned. Else van Nieuwkerk, Director of the Dutch Debating Institute will respond.

About the speakers

David Beckett is an international pitch coach, who has trained over 650 Startups to win over €155 million in investment, and has worked with accelerators such as Startupbootcamp, MassChallenge and Rockstart, and is the lead pitch coach for The Green Challenge and the New Energy Challenge. He has also trained more than 7000 people at companies such as ING, PwC, Google, IKEA and Unilever, in over 20 countries. David is also the author of the new book Pitch To Win. It provides the tools for Startups and Corporate Innovation teams to script, design and deliver winning pitches.

Else van Nieuwkerk is director of the Dutch Debating Institute (Stichting Nederlands Debat Instituut).They currently have ongoing projects to integrate debating into school curricula. Van Nieuwkerk previously worked a trainer and discussion leader. She has an MA in Argumentation Theory.

Willem van Ewijk (moderator) is editor at VICE Money, the platform about money and the economy of VICE. He studied Law and History in Utrecht and Paris. He previously wrote for a.o. de Volkskrant, de Groene Amsterdammer en de Nieuwe Pers.

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