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.

Reports of the “Death of PowerPoint” greatly exaggerated

An article in early April 2007 in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper suggests that a new research paper by Prof. John Sweller of the University of New South Wales pronounces the “death of the PowerPoint presentation”. This report was then picked up by newspapers around the globe and reported as definitive proof that PowerPoint presentations…

Full-day workshop for finance professionals (December 12, 2013, Schaumberg, IL)

Customized full-day workshop for financial professionals covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.

Full-day workshop for finance professionals (December 11, 2013, Schaumberg, IL)

Customized full-day workshop for financial professionals covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.

Sharing your presentation online; Issue #276 December 11, 2012

Recently I offered some ways that you could turn your PowerPoint presentation into a video that could be sent to others or posted to the web (see article here). What if you want to just share the slides without the extra work to add an audio track? In this article, I want to share some…

CPAO course: How to Present Financial Data Effectively using PowerPoint (December 3, 2013, GTA)

Accountants often use PowerPoint to present financial data to peers, executives, suppliers, and others. It is critical that others understand the impact of the financial analysis so that decisions can be made and the bottom line positively impacted. Unfortunately, too often the barrage of numbers is overwhelming to the audience and they leave confused. This…

Full-day workshop for finance professionals (November 28, 2013, Toronto, ON)

Customized full-day workshop for financial professionals covering planning a presentation, creating effective visuals, and showing slide makeovers of their own slides to reinforce the ideas.

Paperless Handouts; Issue #275 November 27, 2012

Is it possible to replace the paper handouts we use for our presentations with a more environmentally friendly electronic version that the audience downloads in advance or just before we start? The answer is changing, and right now it would be a “maybe.” Electronic handouts can save money on printing, save the environment by using…

Create a waterfall graph

How to create a waterfall graph, typically used in financial presentations Right-click here and select “Save As” to download the video to your computer

Transforming data dump slides; Slide Makeover #75

It is too easy to jump dump a ton of data on a slide and hope the audience figures out what it means. This makeover shows what can be done with a huge table of data to make it meaningful to the audience. Click here to watch the video on slideshare (home or corporate viewers)…