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Key Points for Michael Margolis

  • Michael Margolis is a VC Operating Partner and Narrative Architect who helps organisations increase velocity and reduce execution friction.
  • He is CEO of Storied and has worked with more than 350 organisations across 18 countries, influencing strategy, capital investment and large scale adoption.
  • Michael serves as Operating Partner, Narrative at Veridical Ventures, supporting founders from due diligence through to go to market.
  • Author of Story 10x, Michael delivers keynotes that align leadership teams around shared meaning to improve execution and growth outcomes.

Topics for Michael Margolis

  • Strategic storytelling in the Age of AI
    In the Age of AI, language is no longer messaging. It is leverage. The way leaders frame strategy now shapes execution, capital allocation, product priorities, and market response. When narrative coherence is strong, velocity increases. When it fragments, friction compounds. In this keynote, Michael introduces strategic storytelling as infrastructure. He shows how belief compounds before revenue does, and how conviction must be architected before capital moves. Leaders leave with a practical framework for diagnosing narrative friction, increasing decision velocity, and aligning teams around one coherent strategic spine.
  • Accelerating deal velocity
    Strategic storytelling for enterprise revenue growth
    Enterprise deals stall when buyers cannot clearly see the future. In complex buying environments, language shapes trust, risk perception, and executive confidence. This keynote shows how strategic storytelling reduces cognitive drag inside sales cycles. When positioning, sales conversations, and executive framing align under one coherent strategic narrative, hesitation drops and momentum builds. This is not about better decks. It is about making the future credible enough for customers to act. Revenue teams leave with a framework to clarify value, increase close rates, shorten cycles, and strengthen executive buy-in across multi-stakeholder buying committees.
  • Leading change in the Age of AI
    Strategic storytelling for enterprise transformation
    Transformation fails when belief fragments. In the Age of AI, leaders are asking teams to rethink workflows, operating models, and even identity. Data may justify change. Strategic storytelling determines whether people commit. This keynote shows how leadership language shapes alignment before behavior shifts. When storytelling is coherent, uncertainty becomes navigable and resistance declines. When messaging fragments, fatigue multiplies. Senior leaders leave with a disciplined framework for aligning conviction early, reducing internal drag, and accelerating AI and digital initiatives with shared clarity and coordinated execution.
  • Capital follows conviction
    Strategic storytelling for valuation and multiples
    Capital does not compound without conviction. In venture and private equity environments, companies rarely stall because of product alone. They stall because the future is not legible enough for markets to move. Narrative clarity determines how efficiently capital converts into momentum. In this keynote, Michael shows how strategic storytelling strengthens positioning, defensibility, and perceived category leadership. Investors and portfolio executives learn how to diagnose narrative risk before it suppresses multiples, align leadership around a coherent market thesis, and architect conviction before capital is deployed. The result is stronger valuation, improved capital efficiency, and clearer paths to exit.

Testimonials for Michael Margolis

An absolute hit. Highest ratings amongst 40 speakers. The kind of keynote conference organizers dream about. Full of storytelling, specific advice and models our attende could apply immediately.
CEO and founder
CMX Summit

Best session on influence I’ve ever attended
Quality Engineering
Fidelity Investments

My team can now communicate our vision in language the C-suite understands.
Hulu

Very valuable investment. Incredibly insightful.
Squarespace

Your keynote crushed it! Impeccable job. Really really well done. 
Anthem/Elevance Heath

Knocks you off your normal in a good way
SVP Solution Network
OneStream Software

An ‘aha’ moment for every attendee! Our senior sales leaders gave it top ratings.
Bloomber

Surprisingly practical, yet thought-provokingly philosophical
Atlassian

If storytelling were an Olympic sport, you’d take home the gold. A true masterclass.
UX Value Stream Leader
OutSystems

Our senior team loved the session. Everyone got inspired and left with practical tools for working on innovation. Storied is teaching next-level leadership.
Genentech

I’m blown away by how much I learned in a few hours. A masterful approach.
Senior Director of Product Design
Zillow

Michael Margolis was one of the top-rated keynotes at our conference! He made a big impression with our audience and got rave reviews for his Masterclass and panel discussion. He has a provocative message that really resonated with all the product managers, design thinkers, and digital innovators who attend our events.
CEO
Productized Conference 

An amazing day! The programme was insightful, practical and pragmatic. Michael Margolis has a great way of focusing your attention on what is important to refine your story. This is an art, that he makes accessible to all. I got great insight into how story grounds us, connects us and gives us faith in the future. The man is genius.
Chief People Officer
The Warehouse Group

A best-in-class story sherpa. Through coaching with Michael Margolis I’ve experienced immediate results as co-founder of a maverick venture in the music business. We quickly got the story of our value prop, and how to speak about it in an intriguing way.
Gary W. Goldstein
Former Hollywood Film Producer, Pretty Woman