Build Persuasive PowerPoint Decks

10 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Master engaging storytelling and design to create action-oriented presentations that win over your audiences.

Course overview

Build Persuasive PowerPoint Presentations

Informed by a decade of hands-on experience with building presentation decks that deliver, including investor decks that have raised $2B+. If you’ve ever struggled to transform the story in your head into clear and engaging slides, this course is for you.

This course is for you if:

01

You have a great story - but you struggle to translate it into a clear & engaging presentation that gets your audience excited and on board

02

You need to wow your audience with a presentation that's understandable, memorable and actionable - but you don't know where to start

03

You're one presentation away from closing the big deal or securing the dream job - but the thought of creating a slide deck makes you cringe

What you’ll get out of this course:

Master a scalable and repeatable story framework to get the story out of your head and into an easy to follow narrative.



  • Every story is unique, so there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution. Instead, I'll teach you how to approach your presentations ... walk you through the framework I've developed over the last 10 years.

Understand the key traits of persuasive presentations that you can use immediately to supercharge your own presentations.



  • Presentation storytelling and design fundamentals and best practices, including the frameworks used by top management consulting firms
  • A decade of experience distilled into the most critical key frameworks to help you succeed. 

Several real-world teardowns to illustrate the principles in easy-to-remember and digestible examples.



  • Presentation storytelling and design best practices, including learning the frameworks from top management consulting firms

Work smarter, not harder.



  • A decade of experience distilled into critical frameworks to help you succeed.
  • Powerpoint tips and tricks that will save you hours of work and enable you to make professional presentations in a snap.

Multiple exercises to develop your skills  that can be referenced indefinitely in the future whenever you need a refresher.



  • Presentation storytelling and design best practices, including learning the frameworks from top management consulting firms

Improved confidence that you can effectively capture your audience's attention from slide 1.

Convert unstructured content into visually engaging slides that compel your audience to act.

Convert unstructured content into visually engaging slides that compel your audience to act.

Action-oriented Decks

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting through a meeting, counting down the seconds with a presentation deck gone wrong: Endless bullet points, story overload, confusing jargon, irrelevant stock photos, uninspiring graphs, unclear calls to action, and distracting inconsistencies.


Disjointed and poorly designed presentations are a huge missed opportunity that lead to an unengaged and uninterested audience.


In this course I will teach you how to build persuasive presentations that engage and persuade, and set you up for success:


STORYTELLING

How to craft a clear and engaging story that resonates with your audience, and is understandable, memorable and actionable.


DESIGN

How to use design and visuals to support your narrative and objective(s), improve understanding and retention of core messages, and boost credibility).

What people are saying:

        Anna is brilliant, would highly recommend to anyone looking to tell their story in slides...Her communication, design and understanding of what we were doing was incredible. She didn't just make our presentation look better, she made it better full stop.
Michael Young

Michael Young

Co-Founder, Lindus Health
        Anna, is a stellar designer. She takes the time to understand the project before beginning, which ensures a five star result. She nailed our project the first time, and with minimal input from us. Her strengths are both in design and content. She gets what a pitch deck needs to be, and how to best position a company.
Aitan Zacharin

Aitan Zacharin

Director of Investor Relations, Slinger Bag | CEO, GCANRx
        The best investor deck designer I have ever worked with. She totally gets it and sees the vision. Anyone would be a fool to pass up on the chance to work with Anna I will 100% hire again...Thanks again!
Jared Kugel

Jared Kugel

Founder & CEO, TireAgent
        Anna's work spoke for itself. She not only transformed complex problems into beautiful webinar decks but also helped us clarified our messages in a short time frame. We are very impressed with her depth of knowledge and will not hesitate to recommend her.
Catherine Miller

Catherine Miller

Managing Partner, Marris + Miller
        Anna created a perfect story and beautiful visuals for our company profile deck. My staff were blown away by the elegance and beauty of the deck and have started using it with great success. I will be working with Anna again.
Henrique Reis

Henrique Reis

Founder, Reis Informatica
        Anna is fantastic! Great design insights and also assisted in the storytelling. I've worked with a LOT of designers and she is in the absolute top tier.
Greg Horn

Greg Horn

Managing Director and Partner at William Hood & Company | CEO at Specialty Nutrition Consulting
        Anna's ability to convert boring text into a powerful story that engages the intended audience is unmatched.
Tabitha Njeri

Tabitha Njeri

Founder, StitchMyStory
        ARE…….YOU……..KIDDING………ME!!!!! This looks amazing!
Anthony Ramirez

Anthony Ramirez

4X Inc 5000 Founder | CEO of Lincoln Security Services | Co-Founder of Showmetry, a Virtual/Hybrid Trade Show Platform | EO’er
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Learn how to combine storytelling frameworks from top global consulting firms with presentation design best practices to supercharge your slides for maximum impact.

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Meet your instructor

Anna Leyva

Anna Leyva

Founder & CEO of VERBED

Former Deloitte Management Consultant. Had an epiphany, quit my job and founded a multiple six-figure business: VERBED, a presentation design agency that combines storytelling, design and strategy to build persuasive presentation and pitch decks that sell, educate and delight.


A leading presentation design agency, VERBED has built thousands of decks, and helped clients to raise $2B+. We collaborate with clients around the world to create presentation decks that are understandable, memorable and actionable. We're on a mission to turn PowerPoint’s reputation around. Let’s rid the world of bad presentation and pitch decks, together. 


LinkedIn | www.verbed.ca

Course syllabus

01

An introduction to persuasive presentations

  • We'll unbox the fundamentals of persuasive presentations and how to incorporate visual storytelling to maximize its impacts.

02

How to be an effective storyteller

  • We'll dive into how to apply the basics of storytelling - which you're already familiar with from your favourite novel or movie - to a presentation deck context.


03

How to structure your story

  • We'll cover the framework and best practices I've honed over the past decade (and thousands of presentations) and used to help my clients close millions of dollars of business.

04

Tear-down of exceptional real-world examples

  • In this section we'll look at real examples that have successfully moved audiences to action using several key fundamentals.

05

PowerPoint design tools and techniques

  • We'll review the "how-to's" of design tools and techniques in PowerPoint. This module will cover: Typography, Color Theory, and Visuals (Logos, Icons, Quotes, Statistics, Photos, Illustrations, Infographics, Diagrams, Charts / Graphs, Tables and Timelines).

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Exercises and real-world learning

  • You'll apply the key learnings of storytelling and design in the final module of the course. We'll look at the core elements of your story and design that you can use to persuade your audience more effectively.

Course Schedule: 3 Live Sessions

  • Workshop 1: October 18, 2022

    2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

    Storytelling

  • Workshop 2: October 21, 2022

    2:00pm-4:00pm EST

    Design

  • Office Hours: October 25, 2022

    2:00pm-3:00pm EST

    Questions

Presentations that engage and persuade.

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Active learning, not passive watching

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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