I’ve trained over 2000 speakers. The ones who grew the most were not the most talented.
They were the ones who stopped trying to be like someone else on stage.
Hi, my name is Margreet Jacobs, but most people call me Maja.
Nice to meet you!
Stage Heroes was created because I kept seeing the same thing:
talented people performing a version of themselves that was two sizes too small.
Not because they lacked skill.
Because nobody had ever told them they had a natural communication strength worth building on.
Stage Powers are my answer to that problem.
A framework built on 12 natural communication strengths that are already in each of us.
We do not teach people to present differently.
We train them to present more deliberately as themselves.
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Why Stage Heroes ?
I chose the name Stage Heroes not just because it sounds cool. There’s a real meaning here. Being a hero has nothing to do with being in the centre of attention. It’s all about feeling the fear and doing it anyway. In this video I explain what it takes to be a true Stage Hero.
Book me as a speaker!
I speak at corporate events and leadership off-sites on authentic communication, presentation culture and what it really takes to make people want to listen.
If you are looking for something that goes beyond your everyday keynote,
The Stage Heroes SHOW is a live corporate theatre experience that puts your organisation’s presentation habits on stage. Part transformation, part provocation, entirely unforgettable.
Interested in booking me as a speaker or bringing The Stage Heroes SHOW to your organisation?
Where it all began
Teaching and being in front of a crowd have drawn me from the age of 4. My audience back then mostly consisted of my dolls and our cat Mickey. Almost 30 years later, I decided I wanted a career in training and coaching.
From Journalism to dance teacher
After studying Journalism and Arabic, teaching salsa professionally
and spending 7 years in software sales, I came across NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming.
It changed how I understood communication.
Not just what people say, but how they say it.
Why some people hold a room effortlessly while others disappear into their own slides.
Hip surgery
A serious hip injury ended my dance career at 26 and forced me to reinvent myself.
That experience, of rebuilding my identity from scratch, is behind everything I teach.
Curious to find out what the impact of a Stage Heroes training could be for your team?
A few things worth knowing
I AM A LIFELONG LEARNER
I have worked with software engineers, plastic recycling experts, poets, athletes, AI experts, entrepeneurs and CEOs.
Every person, every team, every company teaches me something new. And that makes the next training even sharper.
I’M A DO-EVERYTHING-WITH-COMPLETE-DEDICATION KIND OF PERSON
I give everything when I work with a team.
After two or three days of training, I need a full day to recover.
I am okay with that. I would not have it any other way.
I WAS A PROFESSIONAL SALSA DANCER
A hip surgery at 26 ended that chapter and started this one.
Every time I watch someone find their voice on stage,
I feel exactly like I did when I was still dancing and teaching dance.
Like I am flying.