Pick Your
Presentation Superpower
My videos and guides break down the essential skills into bite-sized, easy-to-follow lessons. There's a lot that goes into great presentations, but don't worry - just pick what you need and start wherever makes sense for you!
Color Balance
Black text on a red background works, right? No, unless your audience is wearing sunglasses. Learn how to balance colors (even bright reds) for slick slides that are clean and easy on the eyes.
Fonts and Typography
Typo-what? Typography is how you use fonts to structure your text - headings, sub-headings, body text, captions, all in a beautiful flow. Also, learn which fonts to use and when ( Pro tip: Comic Sans = never).
Layouts
Hierarchy is everything - know where to draw your viewers eye first on key info to ensure nothing important is missed. Create space to let your slides breathe and still fit everything you need in a 16:9 space.
Data Visualization
Tables, graphs, charts, dashboards... slides often have a lot of data to present, and knowing how to cram it all in in a way that looks good but also conveys the key takeaways from the data is crucial - else your data is just a bunch of numebrs and text.
Icons and Illustrations
Icons, icons, everywhere. But do you really need them on each slide? Probably not. If you overuse icons, people won't even look at them as they blur into one blob of icons. Learn how to use icons selectively and where to source icons.
Storytelling
A deck is more than just slides thrown together - you are weaving together a store with a beginning, middle and end. Learn how to structure your flow so you engage your audience from start to finish (and keep them from checking their phone every 5 mins).
Animations
Slides don't need to have animation to make an impact, but add in some moving text and glowing boxes, and you've created art. Learn simple animations that create a big impact to enhance your content.
Transitions
We've all seen those overused PowerPoint transitions - slides shifting from blinds to the other. They dont really add anything to the deck, and can actually distract. The right transition can make your flow even flow-ier.
Templates
There are some great PPTX templates online to save you time, but when you move them into your project, suddenly your blue graphs are orange and fonts have all become Calibiri. Stay clam, you can move templates to your deck without losing your formatting (and your mind) with my simple tips.
Audio and Videos
Video and audio in a deck? Now we're just moving into movie editing territory. But it doesn't need to be that complicated, and adding background videos or audio overlays to your decks can be a game-changer, also creating a much needed break from static slide content.
Work with decks adapted from real-life brands you're familait with, so you can see how brand guidelines translate to content and design, making it more relatable for you to adapt to your brand.
Grab what you need when you need it. Working on a client pitch? Jump straight to the data visualization module. Got a boring quarterly report to jazz up? Head to the color and layout section. Need to fix that one slide that's been bugging you? Find the specific technique and get it sorted.
PowerPoint is King, even though there's other tools such as Keynote and Canva, so I've made all the tutorials using PowerPoint on a PC so you can easily follow along on your corporate laptop. Mac users are of course welcome, and can still use the same PowerPoint flow.
Everything you learn here can be used not only to help you design slides, but also format emails that people actually want to read, create spreadsheets that don't look like a data nightmare and design meeting handouts that people keep instead of toss in the bin.
