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Say Farewell to Death by PowerPoint Once and for All

Say Farewell to Death by PowerPoint Once and for All

Live on October 1, 2025
2:00 pm ET

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Overview

You don’t need to be a professional designer to create effective slides, but you do need to know how to deliver clean, smart visuals that enhance your spoken message and keep your audience engaged. Sounds simple enough…so how come millions of people commit “Death by PowerPoint” every week?

This one-hour session will help you better understand principles of presentation design and walk you through a few key PowerPoint techniques to help you avoid “Death by PowerPoint” and the fate that befalls so many. Whether you’re presenting to clients, colleagues, or classrooms, you’ll gain practical tips you can use right away to inform, influence, and inspire.

Attendees will learn

  • Recognize the obstacles that ruin good presentations
  • Identify the three tenets of successful presentations
  • Blend evocative imagery with simple text messages
  • Take the Three-Word Challenge – a key strategy for combating Death by PowerPoint
  • Learn how to manage the all-important handout
  • Master audience-centric communication
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Say Farewell to Death by PowerPoint Once and for All

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Presenter

Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of companies, listened to by tens of thousands of professionals, and read by millions of people, all of whom seek better results with their presentation content and delivery. He covers the whole of the industry, from message crafting through presentation design, slide creation, software technique, and delivery.

He is the host of the Presentation Summit, now in its 23rd season as the most prominent learning event in the world for the presentation community.

When not in front of audiences or in the Zoom studio that used to be his daughter’s bedroom, he will invariably be found on some sports field, be it a tennis or pickleball court, a baseball diamond, or a golf course.

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Presentation Summit
The Presentation Summit

The Presentation Summit is the longest-running and most prominent learning event on the planet for professionals who need to communicate in public. It covers the whole of the presentation experience: message crafting, presentation design, software technique, and delivery. Now in its 23rd season, this year’s virtual conference takes place Oct 19-22.

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