Why this, why now
Your students are learning to build the tools. Nobody is teaching them how to use a room.
The ability to communicate an idea — to pitch it, defend it, explain it to someone who is not technical, tell the story of why it matters — is what separates engineers who get funded from engineers who don't. It is not a soft skill. It is the skill that gets everything else heard.
This is not a presentation course. There are no slide templates. Students work with their own material — their thesis, their startup idea, their research — and learn to say it in a way that lands. In pairs, in front of the group, out loud.
What a collaboration can look like
Taster Session
90 min · Free
I come in, run a live storytelling and presence exercise with your students, and you see the methodology in action. No slides. No theory first. Just the room doing the work.
Best for: To see whether it lands before committing to anything.
Workshop
Half-day or Full-day
Students build and deliver a real piece — a pitch, a presentation, a story — in pairs and in front of the group. The people who walk in saying "I have nothing to say" are always the most surprised by the end.
Best for: Founders, thesis students, interdisciplinary cohorts.
Workshop Series
4–6 sessions
Each session builds on the last: finding your material, structuring it, reading a room, handling the Q&A that is really an argument. Students finish with something they can actually use — not just a certificate.
Best for: Semester integration, recurring cohort.
Course
Full semester · elective or module
Your students are learning to build tools that handle information. This course teaches what those tools cannot: judgment, meaning, presence, story. One lecture + one workshop session per week. Adapts to any department.
Best for: Engineers, designers, innovators, interdisciplinary programs.
All formats available in English or German. Adaptable to any faculty or department. I have worked with engineering, medical, and business schools across Europe.
About Roi
Roi Shternin is an international keynote speaker, author of 6 books, and workshop facilitator based in Vienna. He has delivered 200+ sessions across 27 countries — for medical schools, engineering conferences, pharmaceutical companies, and startup ecosystems.
Three-time TEDx speaker. His work sits at the intersection of storytelling, human communication, and what it means to think and speak clearly in an age where the machines handle everything else.
Next step
Let's figure out what fits your semester.
A 20-minute call is enough to know whether there's a fit — and which format makes sense for your students and timeline.
Book Roi →roishternin.com · Vienna, Austria · Available in English and German