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.

Building PowerPoint Templates Step by step with the experts

When I review slides, I often find poorly constructed templates that cause headaches for presenters as they try to create presentations. How can organizations create templates that work and are easy for presenters to use? This book lays out the step by step process you can follow to create a PowerPoint template that your staff can use to create consistently branded presentations every time.

Using an iPad in Business Webinar for Rhonda Scharf October 3, 2013

If you have an iPad and have been trying to figure out how to use it productively in a business setting, this one-hour webinar will give you specific apps and techniques to make the most of the investment you have made. Get all the details and register at www.on-the-right-track.com/events

Repurpose your presentation as a web video; Issue #271 October 2, 2012

Presentation Tip: Repurpose your presentation as a web video If you read the statistics about online video, you will see that online video is growing dramatically. And it is not just people watching funny cat videos. Executives and professionals are watching video online and making decisions based on the content and quality of what they…

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Webinar on the Results from the Latest Annoying PowerPoint Survey October 1, 2013

As part of fellow PowerPoint MVP Ellen Finkelstein’s Outstanding Presentations Workshop webinar series, I’ll be diving into the details of the results from the latest survey on what annoys audiences about bad PowerPoint presentations. You can attend my webinar and the seven others in the series for only $7! Register at www.OutstandingPresentationsWorkshop.com.

Present It So They Get It

PowerPoint presentations have a bad reputation today because audiences often leave confused and unsure of what the presenter was trying to communicate. If your audiences aren’t clear on your message and aren’t taking the action you want them to take, there is hope. You can learn how to create effective presentations that the audience will easily understand and act on using the advice in presentation expert Dave Paradi’s book “Present It So They Get It”