Daniel Ríos is an Uruguay-based expert in public speaking, presentations, storytelling, and nonverbal communication. He works in partnership with Mark Bowden, the world’s number one body language expert for the last couple of years and one of our Present to Succeed two-time speakers. In this podcast episode, we talk with Daniel about data, and how you can bring it to life and present it in the most effective ways. Daniel also shares four ways to make numbers memorable. Here’s a little teaser: Use stories. Name your sources. Use of round numbers. Use frames. Daniel Ríos has been train ..read more

Bronya Spitzer is a lawyer turned successful Public Speaking Coach, who delivers highly customized 1:1 coaching sessions for her clients. On top of that, she runs an 8-week on-camera public speaking program called The Badass Speaker Accelerator. Bronya has just recently moved to Florida, US. In this episode with her, we discuss public speaking, how she started loving presentations and public speaking while being a lawyer writing the company’s board minutes, and what it takes to speak and present like a badass. We opened the talk with Bronya sharing the story of how she started her care ..read more

Arlen Nikolli is a Presentation and Public Speaking Coach and the Founder of NIKOLLI Presentations. He is based in Munich, Germany. In this episode with him, we talk about public speaking, sales hacks, and presentation skills. We discuss the upcoming Microsoft PowerPoint updates as well as what the future of sales and presentation skills looks like. Nikolli revealed that his career began with organizing parties, followed by event planning and management. He said that while falling in love with event planning, he was able to listen to a lot of presentations, speeches, and keynotes at wo ..read more

How Slidewise Can Help You with PowerPoint Productivity and What’s New in Version 1.5 READ ↓ 6 Minutes13/05/2022 Presentation Tools Share this article Forget about not knowing your presentation’s ingredients, Slidewise will let you handle fonts and media in a snap! Now, for example, who wouldn’t like to change any fonts with the click of a button in the whole presentation? But what is Slidewise in the first place? Slidewise is a powerful PowerPoint productivity add-in built by Neuxpower, which is renowned for creating NXPowerLite Desktop, a compression program that can downsize files ..read more

Stephan Kuhnert is an experienced tech entrepreneur who founded empower® with his business partner Fabian Willebrand in 2009. Stephan is the Managing Director of the company now, and presentations and elegant, intuitive software are two things that he is enthusiastic about. empower’s product can save you a lot of time and effort – the suite add-in for Microsoft Office, and notably PowerPoint. For the second year in a row, Stephan was one of the speakers at Present to Succeed, and he and his company were one of the event’s awesome sponsors. They have helped us make the conference a real ..read more

Our latest podcast guest is Dan Fraser. He is a public speaker, the author of the book Kickass Presentations, and the owner of the company Fraser Training Solutions. Everyone from the presentation industry has a curious story of how they entered the field. But Dan Fraser’s one is quite the thing. He used to be a police officer. He eventually became a tactics trainer, teaching other police officers, which meant that basically, he was presenting every day. But at the same time, he started doing stand-up comedy because why not? It just seemed cool to him. And it is cool, that’s true! In t ..read more

Michael Mioduski is the founder and CEO of a fellow boutique presentation agency located in the US. His company is called GhostRanch Communications and their Technical Director, Steve Sheets, is one of the speakers at Present to Succeed 2022, which is in 1 day! Michael and his team, work with brands like DocuSign, Oracle, and one of the cutest Scandinavian brands out there, Fjällräven, among others. In this episode with him, we had a chat about his journey in the presentation industry, what presentation thinking is and how you can cultivate it. You can also hear about some very useful ..read more

How to Use the New Cameo Feature in PowerPoint READ ↓ 3 Minutes28/03/2022 Presentation Tools Share this article What is the new PowerPoint Cameo feature? How can you use it to your advantage? Let’s talk about this wonderful new feature that PowerPoint announced last month and is in the process of rolling out. We will answer: What is PowerPoint cameo? Where can you find PowerPoint cameo? Why is PowerPoint cameo not showing, or when will PowerPoint cameo be released to everyone? What is PowerPoint Cameo? PowerPoint cameo is a new feature that allows you to embed your camera feed st ..read more

Rachel Cossar is a leader in the field of nonverbal communication and leadership presence facilitation. Her most recent venture is Virtual Sapiens – a machine learning SaaS platform that helps clients master communication skills over the video, just like a personal virtual coach. It provides you with individualized and consistent coaching prompts in real-time. But before all of that happened, Rachel was a nationally ranked athlete! And then a professional ballet dancer! She now loves exploring some of the parallels between those activities and the business world. Rachel’s thought leade ..read more

Choosing the Right Presentation Training: Presentation Mistakes Executives and Managers Make READ ↓ 9 Minutes21/03/2022 Virtual Presentations, Presentation Tools Share this article You’ve opened this article, which probably means you are either a manager, a team leader, or an executive. So, first, congrats! You search for ways to become better at your work, which we always respect, and we love to help people just like you. But even if you’re not in a leadership position, don’t be shy to share or forward this article to your managers. This could help your whole company. Now let’s get ..read more