Powerful Presentations

Powerful Presentations

Whether or not you are an experienced speaker, this workshop will make you radically reconsider why and how we make presentations. Welcome to our most popular and successful course, which we deliver to thousands of people every year at the world's leading business schools and corporate universities.

Explain | Present | Persuade | Inspire

  • Do you put a lot of effort into preparing your presentations but feel like your audience is not engaged?
  • Do you find it difficult to explain what you do in a concise and compelling way?
  • Do you want to communicate more confidently and speak more clearly using your body?
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Using a range of tools and techniques from multiple disciplines (rhetoric, psychology and UX design), you will enhance your capacity to inform, persuade and inspire others. Learn a step-by-step approach to help you clarify and structure your ideas, sharpen your message and interact confidently with your audience in a variety of situations - to C-suite, clients, teams, online and face-to-face. This is much more than about designing a pretty PowerPoint deck! - this is about learning how to craft and communicate your ideas confidently and clearly, thus moving your audience to action.

The impact on your organisation

01

Less time is wasted watching and delivering presentations that lack focus and have no actionable outcomes.

02

PowerPoint decks are no longer misused as a means of communication tool in your organisation.

03

Your work, values, and strategy are clearly explained and achieve the desired outcomes.

04

Leaders look and sound confident as they make presentations in a variety of contexts, both online and face-to-face.

How will participants learn?

Engaging and interactive plenary sessions with an expert.
Exercises and discussion in small groups guided by a professional facilitator.
Working alone to prepare a real presentation they need to deliver in the near future.
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All participants will benefit from lifetime access to the complete self-taught course containing videos and readings for further learning. This online course is constantly updated with new materials and contains much more than can be covered in the live version.

Learner Objectives

Know your purpose for presenting - to outline a problem/ need facing the audience and argue for a solution.
Practice how to open and close a speech, and how to deal with questions and interruptions from the audience.
Differentiate the three documents that the speaker needs to prepare – slides, handout and speaker notes.
Learn how to connect with your body so that you can speak confidently and clearly.
Know the ideal structure for a talk and how to choose what content to put in (and leave out!).
Gain confidence and make better impressions.
I did this course and actually had to give a talk 5 days later on an international symposium. I left the course, knowing I still would have to do a lot of work on my presentation. But with all the just learned techniques from the course I was able to over come my fear of presenting and actually deliver a great presentation, resulting in winning the “Best Guest Presentation Award.
Sabine (Klischies) Puzzovio  
 Senior Editor for Forecast Drugs at Clarivate
I had the pleasure of working with Brian when I had to prepare an important presentation. I am an experienced speaker and have delivered dozens of presentations for large audiences. Still, Brian helped me tremendously: my presentation would not have been a success without his help…I have been able to put to practice Brian's teachings in subsequent presentations with great results. I feel that I am a much better presenter thanks to Brian's input….In sum, I give Brian my highest recommendation.
Nuria Oliver 
ESRI 2020 Data Scientist of the Year
Brian is a leadership expert, I’ve worked for years and years with leadership gurus from the best business schools, however, I would call Brian a leadership guru. He brings academic knowledge, real content, real experience, all these holistic skills to the table.
Rory Simpson 
Chief Executive Learning Officer, Telefónica Group
"Thank you so much, Brian, for the wonderful Presentation Skills Seminar you gave at Telefónica at the beginning of October. I am still amazed how much new things you were able to teach me despite my years and years of presentation experience!

Last week, I was giving a 10-minute version of the talk on the haptic car finder that I trained in your course. I had a lot of fun to apply all the lessons that I learned from you. My colleague Rodrigo said that he recognized “Brian all the way” and that the talk stood out of the rest of the talks by far.”
Martin Pielot  
Staff Quantitative UX Researcher & Manager at Google
I did this course and actually had to give a talk 5 days later on an international symposium. I left the course, knowing I still would have to do a lot of work on my presentation. But with all the just learned techniques from the course I was able to overcome my fear of presenting and actually deliver a great presentation, resulting in winning the “Best Guest Presentation Award".
Sabine (Klischies) Puzzovio  
Senior Editor for Forecast Drugs at Clarivate
Brian is a leadership expert, I’ve worked for years and years with leadership gurus from the best business schools, however, I would call Brian a leadership guru. He brings academic knowledge, real content, real experience, all these holistic skills to the table.
Rory Simpson 
Chief Executive Learning Officer, Telefónica Group
I had the pleasure of working with Brian when I had to prepare an important presentation. I am an experienced speaker and have delivered dozens of presentations for large audiences. Still, Brian helped me tremendously: my presentation would not have been a success without his help…I have been able to put to practice Brian's teachings in subsequent presentations with great results. I feel that I am a much better presenter thanks to Brian's input…. In sum, I give Brian my highest recommendation.
Nuria Oliver  
ESRI 2020 Data Scientist of the Year
Storytelling is the way visionary leaders move the world, and Brian has helped me take my best work to the world – he helps me keep my vision strong.
Pablo Rodriguez, PhD  
Director at Google´s Office of the CTO
Thank you so much, Brian, for the wonderful Presentation Skills Seminar you gave at Telefónica at the beginning of October. I am still amazed how many new things you were able to teach me despite my years and years of presentation experience!

Last week, I was giving a 10-minute version of the talk on the haptic car finder that I trained in your course. I had a lot of fun to apply all the lessons that I learned from you. My colleague Rodrigo said that he recognized “Brian all the way” and that the talk stood out of the rest of the talks by far.
Martin Pielot
Staff Quantitative UX Researcher & Manager at Google

Tools and Methodologies

Audience Analysis Template

The CORE of all great Presentations

Interactive presentations template for structuring a speech

Rhetorical devices

Personalised body-language analysis

Stress management techniques

A peek inside the course

In traditional workshops, even the great ones, participants have forgotten much of what they learned within a few weeks. That’s why we’ve created a stand-alone online version of the workshop that they can access forever post-course. Here is an excerpt from the online version of Powerful Presentations.
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Track Record

    • Delivered multiple times a year on the number-one MBA and Executive MBA in the world (according to The Economist and FT) at IESE Business School.
    • This is a regular face-to-face and online course for high-level executives and directors at renowned corporate universities such as CapGemini and Telefonica, and for leadership teams at the headquarters of Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris, Barcelona and Brussels.
    • Delivered in more than nine countries across four continents in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
    • More than 8000 participants since 2010.
    • Bespoke editions available with an emphasis on scientific, sales or tech presentations
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