I influence
through
STORIES.
I’m Sudip Dutta, with 25+ years leading sales and building two profitable companies, I’ve learned one truth: Success in leadership and sales isn’t just about data, it’s about the story you tell.
WHY IS STORYTELLING IMPORTANT
The Cost of a Weak Story:
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Corporate Leaders, CXOs, Vice Presidents, Start-up Founders: Whether you’re a corporate leader driving strategy or a startup founder building a company, the challenge is the same: without the right story, you struggle to win customers, raise funds, attract talent, inspire teams and stand out in a noisy market.
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Product and Engineering Leaders: As a product or engineering leader, even the best-built product can fail if the story doesn’t land. Without a compelling narrative, you risk budget allocation, delayed buy-ins, lost top talent, disengaged teams and products that never break through the noise.
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Sales Professionals: As sales professionals, you meet prospects often, but overwhelm clients with data, fail to build trust resulting in lost deals. Without the right story the prospect fails to remember your story and connect.
Without the right story, your vision gets lost in the noise.
I Drive Success through Persuasive Storytelling for Professionals:
I help you craft and deliver stories that don’t just inform but inspire action, win trust and close decisions.
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Leadership Storytelling → Rally your team, influence stakeholders and inspire action with clarity and conviction.
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Sales Storytelling → Move beyond features and data, build trust fast and win more deals with stories that stick.
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Product Storytelling → Translate vision into compelling narratives that align teams, excite customers, secure budgets and gets stakeholder buy-in.
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Data Storytelling → Transform complex numbers into simple, persuasive narratives that drive confident decisions.
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Founder Storytelling → Pitch investors, win customers, attract talent and stand out in competitive markets.
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Personal Brand Storytelling → Position yourself with a story that gets remembered in boardrooms, meetings or online.
Why Storytelling with Sudip?
My unique experience: Engineer → Product Leader → Sales Leader → CEO, helps me relate to every role and speak their language.
Teams are able to relate to me and I’m able influence them through stories I’ve accumulated over 25+ years working across 4 continents.
My focus is practical and results-driven: With my proprietary S.U.D.I.P. framework, I help teams craft and deliver stories that earn buy-in, influence decisions, win clients and inspire action.
Undivided Attention
One Company at a time.
Customized
Each team is different.
Practice Over Theory
Quick learning for teams.
Business First
Participants from the past sessions find the session on Business Storytelling useful.
96%
Participants found the content relevant to their career goals
96.2%
Participants rated Sell-fie (Storytelling Workshop) 8 or above on a scale of 10
100%
Participants said they would like to attend future sessions by Sudip
WHY LEADERS TRUST ME
Because your story determines your success
In the age of AI, Story is Your Superpower.
I bring 25+ years of proven success as an entrepreneur and sales leader, building two profitable companies and leading sales teams across continents. I don’t just know sales, I know the stories that close deals, attract investors and inspire prospects.
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Storytelling That Sells
I’ve lived the truth that stories beat specs. As a storyteller, TEDx speaker and business school speaker, I help leaders craft stories that win customers, inspire teams and move investors because in business, the best story wins, always.
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Product/ Engineering Leaders, R&D Leaders & Founder’s Lens
Storytelling isn’t fluff, it’s survival. Having built 4 products from scratch, I’ll help you turn features into narratives that sell and visions into stories that scale. I’ve lived the grind of selling vision before product. I know how to craft stories that raise capital, help allocate budgets, attract talent and win early customers.
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Sales Professional’s Edge
From carrying a quota to leading global teams, I’ve built narratives that move clients from “maybe” to “yes.” I help you build trust, not just pitch.
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Proven Growth Driver
I’ve scaled companies' 300%+ by shaping stories that inspired investors to back, clients to buy and teams to believe.
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Global perspective
From San Francisco to Santiago, Bangalore to London, I’ve sold across four continents. That means I don’t just teach storytelling, I bring global storytelling lens & cultural intelligence that helps leaders resonate with diverse buyers, teams and markets.
I don’t just advise you; I partner with you to craft the stories that make your ideas impossible to ignore.
RECOMMENDATIONS
"Sudip's StoryPlace workshop allowed us to think about the actual issue and how we could tackle it. S.U.D.I.P and S.T.A.R. frameworks are hard to forget and the workshop helped generate some great practical ideas that I can start using immediately."
- Arushi Singh
"Sudip's storytelling StoryPlace Workshop helped me understand how to move away from boring intros and use storytelling to bring out an interesting version of me"
- Yash Kolhe
"Sales without bullshit"
- Rohit Singhal
"Sudip's personal story around selling a startup product against a billion dollar competitor was relatable to me. It highlights how, despite having a great sales pitch by the competitor, you can still manage to bag the deal by being authentic and with pure effort."
- Rithi Varsha
"Sudip comes across as a suave business man with excellent customer handling skills and storytelling skills, basically the kind who would sell a strategy for a fridge manufacturing unit in Alaska..enough said :). Also a great guy to know"
- Vishal Arora
"Sudip has wealth of storytelling & sales expertise, which was clearly evident during my interactions with him. He listens to the requirements and goes all the way to make things work. I enjoyed working with Sudip and would love to work with him again."
- Rajat Garg