Build Persuasive PowerPoint Decks
10 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Master engaging storytelling and design to create action-oriented presentations that win over your audiences.
Build Persuasive PowerPoint Decks
10 Days
·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.
Build Persuasive PowerPoint Decks
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:
Michael Young
Aitan Zacharin
Jared Kugel
Catherine Miller
Henrique Reis
Greg Horn
Tabitha Njeri
Anthony Ramirez
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
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.
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).
06
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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Learning is better with cohorts
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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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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