About · Narrative Learning Lab
Alperen Erkek

I’ve been in your room.

A decade in enterprise tech — as engineer, project manager, implementation lead, and product manager — before building a business around the one skill organisations keep underestimating: storytelling.

Alperen Erkek
Origin

Why I built this

Across roles at Amadeus, NATO, Adyen and Mollie, I noticed the same pattern: organisations have remarkable experiences inside them — lessons from failures, breakthroughs from unlikely places — and almost none of it travels. It evaporates when people leave meetings. It disappears when people change teams.

The problem wasn’t lack of talent. It was lack of form. Nobody had taught people how to shape their experience into something another person could receive.

“The work experiences of your people are the most valuable curriculum you’re not using.”

So I built a programme that does exactly that — and I’ve been performing proof-of-concept on stage every month since, writing and delivering a new personal narrative story to a live Amsterdam audience. No notes. No slides. Just the story.

Background

A decade inside enterprise tech

Mollie
Product Manager

Led product development at one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs. Learned how to align engineers, designers, and stakeholders around a single coherent direction — which, it turns out, is mostly a storytelling problem.

Adyen
Implementation Manager

Managed enterprise payment integrations for globally recognised brands. Translated technical complexity into clear narratives for clients under pressure.

Vinted McDonald’s Getir Gorillas
NATO
Assoc. Project Manager

Coordinated multi-stakeholder projects in a high-stakes, politically sensitive environment where miscommunication had real consequences.

Amadeus
Software Engineer

Built the logical foundation I still draw on — structured thinking, systems design, and an appreciation for getting things precisely right.

The craft

I trained for this, specifically

01
Performance

Meisner technique acting training. Accent reduction coaching. Scriptwriting. And a new original story performed on stage, every month, without notes.

02
Facilitation

Proven track record running storytelling workshops — including a 5/5-rated programme at Mollie for 20 participants, 5 speakers, and 40–50 audience members.

03
Business fluency

A decade in tech means I understand your context, your stakeholders, and the actual message you need people to carry out of the room.

Watch

Hear it in my own words

On stage

Every month. Live. In Amsterdam.