Get your audience excited about StorySelling

A keynote that helps you create powerful stories, build strong customer relationships and close more deals.

How to sell using stories

Sales are the engine of any organisation, and nothing will kill customer relationships and stifle sales faster than boring self-serving pitches and presentations.

They lose the customer’s attention, they don’t connect, and don’t convert.

Michael’s interactive StorySelling keynote is guaranteed to have your audience on the edge of their seats as they reimagine and reposition the customer as the hero of their stories and obsess over their customers success.

It’s not enough for them just to have a good story.StorySelling combined with charismatic leadership tactics gives them the skills to deliver their customer success stories like legends and it’s grounded in research.

When Michael delivered his first three presentations he lightly touched on the surface of the secret art of speaking, and wanted to know what it was. 25 years later he found the answer, it was three simple words -- Charismatic Leadership Tactics.

Charisma, the magical ability to effortlessly gain favour, friends, fans, followers, fame, and fortune. Michael teaches your audience how to combine charisma with a powerful customer success story so they can become Story Sellers.

This talk uncovers the secrets to crafting stories that pack a punch. Michael masterfully weaves unforgettable stories, metaphors, analogies, and parables into this talk and has any audience hanging on every word.

It’s littered with actionable insights and tangible takeaways that gets people excited about selling. It’s an interactive, activity-based learning experience.

His charisma is infectious. He lays out an easily comprehensible and executable step-by-step process to help people compose their own stories.

This keynote is based on Michael’s most sought-after workshop “StorySelling” which has inspired people to obsess over their customer’s success to increase sales, build strong customer relationships, and close more deals.

Louisa Taylor

Louisa Taylor

CEO of Canterbury Tech

Beyond expectations - Michael is supportive and respectful yet challenging in all the right ways. He led a group of our conference speakers through two sessions. Their conference feedback excelled above others and the speakers made deep connections to others in the cohort. Highly recommend.
Ben Hayward

Ben Hayward

CEO of Fulton Hogan

"Michael’s done some outstanding work with our organisation. Both at a personal and team level – he’s brough out the best in our people. High impact, practical and seriously engaging."
Emily Blythe

Emily Blythe

CEO of Pyper Vision & NZ Innovator of the Year 2023

Michael is more than just a coach. He is a partner in your success, someone who is truly committed to helping you achieve your dreams, and my go-to coach for speaking and facilitation.
Ed Harvey

Ed Harvey

CEO of Evnex

Michael helped the team at Evnex to develop our story and pitch for a live product launch. Michael was fun to work with, refreshingly direct and helped us to raise our game significantly.
Justin Watson

Justin Watson

CEO of Christchurch International Airport

“Awesome session. Michael gave us really useful tools and techniques and made us feel comfortable being uncomfortable.”
Michelle Sharp

Michelle Sharp

CEO of Unicef New Zealand

I always need someone with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective who challenges me to push past what I've become comfortable with. I want to continue to grow as a dynamic speaker and I know Michael will continue to help me achieve this.
Mark Rocket

Mark Rocket

CEO of Kea Aerospace

He has a wealth of knowledge and expertise. Michael has helped take my talks to the next level and given clarity on how to structure an engaging audience experience via script development, slide deck refinement and improved delivery.
Ryan Higgs

Ryan Higgs

CEO of Onside

Working with Michael was a ton of fun. He has an interesting and very effective process. I learned a lot about the technical aspects of how to construct & deliver a compelling talk.
Steve Ardagh

Steve Ardagh

CEO of Eagle Protect

He has the uncanny knack of being able to reduce your message down to some very simple but impactful nuggets helping your audience really get the message! I would highly recommend talking to Michael about your story and how you can present it to the world!
Anthony Baxter

Anthony Baxter

CEO of Firefly Digital

Michael is the real deal, a rare mix of practical and theoretical advice who brings real life experiences to the table. One of them has helped me secure a large contract that has easily paid for Michael's service for the next year.
Chester Boyes

Chester Boyes

CEO of Timescapes

Great to have a few one-on-one sessions with Michael. I learned a lot about my particular style, some of the behaviours I do without thinking and how to incorporate great story telling into my every day communications
Marian Johnson

Marian Johnson

CEO of Ministry of Awesome

Michael helped me construct my first hour-long talk to sector leaders and worked closely with me to improve my confidence, my poise, my body language and the overall flow of the story I was telling.
Troy Bilborough

Troy Bilborough

CEO of Bacon Bros. Burgers

Michael turned my simple speech into a powerful message, and I will use him in the future to further my presentation skills and develop stronger communication techniques.
Michelle Shirtcliffe

Michelle Shirtcliffe

CEO of Publica Group

Passion, enthusiasm and loads of great advice, thanks!
Frayne Cooke

Frayne Cooke

CEO of Well Revolution

NPS response 10. Looking forward to more sessions in the future. 'twas a ripper of a time. I'll be going through the online course for sure. You're a rockstar Michael!
Nic Kennedy

Nic Kennedy

CEO of Flux Federation

It was indeed epic! Lot's of learning, belly laughs and odd doh moments. Thank you for leading like a boss Michael Philpott.
Tania Armstrong

Tania Armstrong

CEO of State3

As the CEO of a NZ SaaS start up simplifying our message and clearly articulating our offering has been problematic... Michael is no nonsense, practical, to the point and authentic. I would highly recommend as an investment in yourself and wider organisation.

Here's how we can work together

In-person
$8,000+ GST & TRAVEL
Michael comes to your location to speak to your audience in person.
Virtual
$5,000+ GST
Michael presents live from his studio, connecting with your team online.
Pre-recorded
$1,700+ GST
Michael delivers a recorded presentation for your audience.

About Michael

Business Storytelling Expert. Keynote Speaker. Executive Speaker Coach. Former Professor of Practice at the University of Canterbury, Communications & Training Specialist.

Having spent over two and half decades working within leadership development, Michael is the sought after high-performance coach to thousands of executives and leaders. 

An expert in storytelling, stage craft, charismatic leadership, and business storyselling. He is renowned for helping people achieve powerful results from their keynotes, sales pitches, capital raises, and formal presentations. 

Michael has a resolute belief that mastery of ourselves is forged in the fiery crucible of practical application, self-analysis, self-discovery, and self-management. 

No other coach offers his credentials, experience, and singleness of purpose.

Webinar testimonials

Fabulous; thanks so much Michael. It’s incredible how you can seem right in the room and engaging with us personally, even though you are presenting to an online audience.
A few small changes make a big difference! I gave a presentation to 80 people on teams this morning. This was the first time after presenting that people complimented me on how well I did. Thanks to Michael Philpott's webinar, I learned some tips to improve my presenting skills.
Thank you for the great energy - it was fun to listen to your talk.

How StorySelling transforms your communication

The StorySelling keynote teaches you how to craft stories that put your audience first and then deliver them in a way that inspires action.

Get started, unleash your sales with StorySelling

01

Apply now

Choose in-person, virtual, or pre-recorded. Block off those calendars and let's do this.

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Get amped

Knowing your sales teams are going to become obsessed with your customers success.

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Start StorySelling

Close more deals, scale service, and build customer relationships & loyalty.

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