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The talk that changes
how your team thinks.

Every organization is now competing for attention in the same economy as Netflix and TikTok. Most don’t know it yet. This talk changes that — drawing on 350 episodes of network television, nine years of high-stakes public communication, and three decades in rooms where the story either worked or it didn’t.

Signature Talk

The talk your audience
won’t forget.

Keynote · Workshop · Leadership Summit

There’s No Business

Not Like Show Business.

“Every organization today is competing for attention. Most are producing noise. The ones that win will be the ones that learn to tell stories that actually engage — and that skill doesn’t come from a content calendar. It comes from the writers’ room.”

This is not a talk about storytelling techniques. It’s a talk about a fundamental shift in how every organization — corporate, government, nonprofit — must now think about communication.

Drawing on 350 episodes of network television, nine years leading a state agency under political pressure, and five years developing client relationships at a Big Four accounting firm, this talk delivers the principles behind great audience engagement — and shows exactly how they apply to the communication challenges your team faces every day.

Audiences leave with a new framework for every message they create. Not a template. A way of thinking that changes the work permanently.

Format

Keynote or Half-Day Workshop

Length

45 min · 90 min · Half-Day

Best For

Comms, Leadership & PR Teams

Availability

Select dates · 2026

Who Books This Talk

The rooms that need
to hear this.

Communications Conferences & Summits

PR Week, PRSA, and communications industry events where professionals are looking for the insight that changes their practice.

Corporate Leadership Offsites

Senior leadership teams who recognize that their organization’s story is not landing — and need a framework to fix it.

In-House Comms Team Retreats

Communications and PR teams who want to elevate their collective storytelling capabilities in a workshop format.

Executive Education Programs

Business schools, Vistage groups, and leadership development programs where communication is on the curriculum.

Government & Nonprofit Leadership

Public sector leaders and mission-driven organizations who need to communicate with the urgency their work deserves.

Speaker Bio — Short Version

Michael Klein is the founder of CorEscent Group and one of the few people who has spent decades on every side of the story — as a network television executive overseeing 350 episodes of hit series, as a state agency director navigating the politics of public communication, and as a client development leader at a Big Four accounting firm earning trust with the most demanding buyers in any room. He founded CorEscent Group on the belief that every story has a core — and that finding it changes everything.

Bring this talk to
your audience.

Available for keynotes, half-day workshops, and leadership retreats. Enquiries reviewed personally by Michael Klein. Please include your event date, audience, and format.

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There’s No Business

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The talk that changes
how your team thinks.

The talk your audience
won’t forget.

The rooms that need
to hear this.

Bring this talk to
your audience.