Deep Dive Workshop: Storytelling for Pitchers

1 Turk’s Head Place,Providence RI 02903

20 May, 2022

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Best techniques to define and refine your personal story and use them anytime you need to pitch your business! Welcome to Innovation Studio RI | Deep Dive Workshops Join us for this in-person experience with Willa Kammerer of Firestarter Interactive. Willa will lead participants through a series of exercises to help define and refine your personal story for your pitch. You can use these techniques anytime you need to pitch your business whether in competition, when seeking funding, or even when stepping into the elevator! Please watch and read the pre-work prior to attending this session Storytelling TED TalkFirestarter Interactive on 7 Compelling Reasons for Storytelling (more video storytelling focused, but also speaks generally to the power of storytelling, and demonstrates how visuals are an important part of communicating your story and brand, as well.This event is part of our the Innovation Studio Pitch program, sponsored by Cox Business. Innovation Studio Rhode Island will host a pitch contest on Tuesday, June 7 at 5:00pm. In order to participate in Pitch, entrepreneurs must apply here, pledge to participate in or watch this workshop and the workshop on 5/19, and meet with their Pitch! Learn More About PITCH RI Program. Meet Our Speaker Willa Kammerer of Firestarter InteractiveWilla Kammerer launched Firestarter Interactive in 2015 in New York City after an early career freelancing in Portland, ME (2009-2013), during which she established a track record of successful video storytelling campaigns for local city institutions and education clients such as Bates and Williams Colleges. Firestarter Interactive is a member of 1% for the Planet and has focused on building partnerships with cause-driven foundations, nonprofits, and institutions, working together on projects to move the needle on pressing social and environmental issues. The company’s projects have taken the team around the country and around the world, from Montana to Mississippi, Ethiopia to Australia. In 2017, Willa moved Firestarter back to her home state of Rhode Island, working from Providence with creative teams in the state and around the US and world. In 2020 Firestarter Interactive was proud to premiere its first award-winning feature documentary, Starting at Zero: Reimagining Education in America, produced in partnership with the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation, and is now in development and pitch stage for its second feature, Kelp Movement: Regenerative Ocean Farming for the Future. About Cox BusinessCox Business provides voice, data and video services for more than 275,000 small and regional businesses, including healthcare providers, K-12 and higher education, financial institutions and federal, state and local government organizations. About Innovation StudioAt Innovation Studio our mission is to make innovation, entrepreneurship and business ownership achievable through an empowering and inclusive network of free community spaces and result-oriented programs. We strive to be the home where aspiring individuals are encouraged to grow their ideas into successful businesses.