Workshops on concepts, stories and pitches

For a team or a group of founders with material that has to move. Short inputs from me; most of the time goes to your own pitch, concept or decision.

Polar Bear Pitching, Oulu, 26 February 2026. Photo: Kota Collective / Polar Bear Pitching.

When it helps

For founders’ programmes and pitch days.

You bring: your pitch as it is today.
In the room: we find the one thing the room should remember, cut what hides it, and you say it out loud until it holds.
You leave with: a reworked pitch, already tested on a room.

Polar Bear Pitching, Oulu, 2026, beside the keynote · BusinessOulu Startup Express, 2025.

For a team with an idea that is still too broad to build.

You bring: the idea, however rough.
In the room: we narrow it down to one person it is for, and build around what they feel and experience.
You leave with: a concept with a face: who it is for, what it has to feel like for them, and the first thing to test with real people.

Workshops for companies and programmes, 2022–⁠26.

For a leadership team or a programme that has to decide something.

You bring: the question that keeps coming back to the agenda.
In the room: a full day, facilitated from the first question to the decision.
You leave with: the decision, written down, with who does what next.

A full-⁠day strategy workshop for a technology programme, 2024.

2026Polar Bear Pitching, OuluA founders’ workshop, beside the keynote.
2025BusinessOuluCoaching in the Startup Express programme.
2022–26Companies and programmesStrategy days and idea workshops, named here only with the client’s OK.

You bring: your own material: the pitch, the concept, or the question that keeps coming back to the agenda.
In the room: short inputs, then most of the time on that material, said out loud and tested on the room.
You leave with: the reworked thing itself, not notes about it.

What it is for Something to use the next morning: a pitch that holds, a concept with one person at its centre, or a decision that’s actually made.

Which languages?: Finnish, Swedish or English.
Do you travel?: Across Finland and abroad.
How long is a workshop?: From a session after a keynote to a full strategy day. The length and the group are agreed with you.
Is it tailored?: It runs on your own material, so it can’t be anything else.

Tell me what it’s for, who it’s for and when. I propose a format, and we agree scope and fee together before anything is confirmed.