Author: Dave Paradi

Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.

Two-day workshop for Manufacturing Company (April 11-12, 2017, Kansas City, MO)

Customized two-day workshop for financial professionals covering planning a presentation, focusing the message, and creating effective visuals. The session includes slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas. The second day is hands-on practice creating the effective visuals they saw on the first day.

AFP Exchange FP&A Issue March 2016

Dave’s article titled “SLIDE RULE: Your message is the key to converting spreadsheets into visuals” was published starting on page 28 of the March 2016 FP&A issue of the AFP Exchange magazine (the monthly magazine published for members of the Association of Financial Professionals). The article was previewed in this extract.