by John Polk | Jul 22, 2025 | Presentation Tips
John recently appeared on the Business Ninjas podcast in an episode titled “Bridging the Gap Between Data, Logic, & Storytelling.” The host, Andrew Lippman, is a Partner at Write for Me, a content marketing agency that fully automates the content marketing...
by John Polk | Jul 14, 2025 | Presentation Design
Thomas Hager, creator of the SPICE PowerPoint add-in, recently interviewed John. Here’s an excerpt. John, with all your years delivering training and services to business leaders in the art of making crisp presentations for decision-making – what are some of the...
by John Polk | Sep 16, 2024 | Presentation Coaching, Presentation Templates, Presentation Tips
Article by John Polk I recently had the antithesis of a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. As Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) from The Office would say, it was “perfektenschlag” – the Schrutes’ word for when everything in life comes together perfectly. I want to...
by John Polk | Feb 13, 2023 | Presentation Design
I have invented a unique art form – the Barf-Bag Haiku. To kill time on a plane, especially when my devices must be in Airplane Mode, I will write a haiku poem on the barf bag. The subject of my first haiku was a barf bag (meta, I know), but I have since branched out...
by John Polk | Nov 13, 2022 | Presentation Design, Presentation Tips
Titivillus as represented by Diego de la Cruz in his painting La Virgen de la Misericordia con los Reyes Católicos y su Familia, circa 1486; Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons. First published on “Nightingale: Journal of the Data Visualization Society” Meet Titivillus....