by John Polk | May 12, 2026 | Presentation Design, Presentation Templates, Presentation Tips
Image Source: Copilot Create (you know we would never create something this cheesy, and our text would have parallel construction) In our book, Presentation Pitfalls, we purposefully minimized our references to software to focus on the timeless presentation strategies...
by John Polk | Feb 10, 2026 | Presentation Coaching, Presentation Design, Presentation Tips
I was happy to be a guest on the January 20th episode of The Presentation Podcast, https://thepresentationpodcast.com/2026/e238/. We talked about three traps from our book, Presentation Pitfalls: The Frankenstein Trap, The Black Hole Trap, and The Virtual Fatigue...
by John Polk | Oct 2, 2025 | Presentation Templates, Presentation Tips
In “The Expert Trap” chapter, we discuss the power of frameworks to organize information. The simplest frameworks categorize content into groups, assign each group a title, and list the related elements within each group. We call these frameworks “n-boxers,” like in...
by Justin Hunsaker | Oct 1, 2025 | Presentation Coaching, Presentation Design, Presentation Tips, Presentation Training
The final chapter, “Conclusion,” brings together the book’s core lessons, showing how storytelling, visuals, clarity, and confident delivery work in harmony to create impactful presentations. We compare this to learning to ride a bike, where you must master each skill...
by Justin Hunsaker | Sep 1, 2025 | Presentation Design, Presentation Templates, Presentation Tips
Order it on Labor Day as we start our Launch Week push. If you absolutely can’t wait (we don’t blame you), go ahead and order on Amazon. Send us a screenshot of your receipt, and we’ll send you the book content that was the hardest to cut. As a bonus, we’ll enter you...
by Justin Hunsaker | Aug 25, 2025 | Presentation Design, Presentation Templates, Presentation Tips
When one of our early readers, Emily Troiano, SHRM-SCP, marked a quotation we attributed to Henry Ford: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” She asked a simple question that made my heart race: Did he really say this? A quick...
