Hey there speakers!

You’re probably wondering what this whole thing is about. What is presentation design? Why does it matter? Who is this Emily person and how can she help me?

Hey, I’m Emily. I have a bizarre love of presentations.

Presentations bring together my passions in the creative, psychology, operations, marketing, and entrepreneurial worlds. It’s a collision point that I feel incredibly lucky to have stumbled upon. Now I get to serve you all the knowledge you need to rock your next presentation and grow your business!

Presentation design is this funny corner of overlap between graphic design, marketing, and business. Thoughtfully designed presentations are a game-changer.

The problem is most people don’t know how to play the game. They’re stuck in the “Title-Bullet-Bullet” template that makes everyone involved want to both rip their hair out and fall asleep immediately. It’s the cycle of bad presentations: bored-annoyed-bored-annoyed-bored-annoyed, etc.

I’m here to teach you how the game works and how to beat it. Yes, it is possible to create an interesting presentation. Crazy, right?! Once you break out of the template mindset and see PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, or whatever your go-to software is for what they really are: visual design software.

Think about that. It’s all made for visual design.

The reason we build presentations in the “T-B-B” format is that someone somewhere decided that this was going to be the default on their software. This put us on the path to the mind-numbing presentations we all know and hate. 

There is another way. 

Say it with me. There is another way. 

By looking at presentations as a communication tool to be designed according to business objectives, brand strategy, and design principles, we can convey something meaningful that people actually care about.

That’s what we all want at the end of the day. We want people to care about what we’re sharing.

Stay tuned for how we get to this presentation utopia. It won’t be as hard as you think!