Category Archives: Interviews

The Presentation Boss Podcast

I recently discovered a fantastic podcast on speaking and presentation from down under called The Presentation Podcast, hosted by Thomas Krafft and Kate Norris.

In a unique approach, they rotate weekly among three different formats: An interview with a figure in the presentation or speech world, a speech breakdown in which they play a speech by a public figure and critique it, and an topic episode in which they cover a particular aspect of presentation.

I was on this week’s installment, Episode #64. Check it out here!

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Presentations in the Courtroom: The Presentation Podcast Episode #70

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Episode #70, Presentations in the Courtroom with Kerri L. Ruttenberg is up and live!

Troy, Sandy and I welcome our first legal guest, Kerri L. Ruttenberg, to talk about trial graphics, how presentation is used in the courtroom and her fantastic book, Images with Impact: Design and Use of Winning Trial Visuals.

Kerri is a top DC litigation attorney and probably the top expert in using visuals in the courtroom in the country. I reviewed her book a while back when I first learned of it, but now we get to dive a bit deeper and hear more about the psychology of visuals, what can and can’t be used in a courtroom and what the state of the trial graphics industry is.

Even if you never plan on working in this area of presentation design, this is a really good conversation in which you’ll learn a ton not just about how to convince juries with visuals, but how to convince your own audiences.

Take a listen!

Subscribe on iTunes and check out the show notes for more info.

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Presentation Summit 2016 Speaker Interviews

Indezine.com has been previewing this year’s Presentation Summit with a series of short Q+A’s with speakers. Lots of good stuff!

Emma Bannister on presenting to varied and international audiences

Julie Terberg on presentation design

Echo Swinford on templates and layouts

Troy Chollar on PowerPoint’s latest game-changing features

Mike Parkinson on presentation graphics

Jon Schwabish on data visualization

Heather Ackmann on remote presenting

Yours Truly on charts, tables, imagery and getting rid of bullet points

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Freelance Transformation Podcast Interview

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I’m this week’s guest on The Freelance Transformation Podcast hosted by Matt Inglot. If you’re not familiar with the show, each week Matt interviews a different guest who is a freelancer or making a living outside the standard cubicle.

Over the course of an hour, we touch on a lot of topics including my own path, solving communication problems for clients, qualifying clients, working with large companies and training.

Listen on iTunesStitcher, at the Podcast site or download the MP3 here. And don’t forget the show notes!

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Indezine Interview with Rick Altman

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I’ll have lots more on the Presentation Summit 2016 coming up including info on my sessions I will be giving this year in Las Vegas, but in the meantime, here’s a nice brief interview with conference producer Rick Altman courtesy of Indezine.

This year is shaping up to be quite a conference lineup.

Discount codes and much more to come…

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3 Questions with Keith Harmeyer of “SmartStorming”

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Keith Harmeyer is one of the two principals of SmartStorming, one of the best ideation consultancies there is. I talked to Keith upon the launch of their new online SmartStormer training to ask how ideation figures into presentation.

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1. What does ideation have to do with the making of better presentations?

One of the key objectives for anyone sitting down to create a presentation, is to make that presentation as engaging and persuasive as possible, right? Well in order to accomplish that, you need ideas. Ideas for how to most effectively structure your content. Ideas for how to visualize it, and present it. There are tens of thousands of people sitting at a computer right now, working on their next presentation. What’s going to make YOURS stand out? What will make your audience say, “That’s one of the best presentations I’ve seen.” I believe the first, and possibly most crucial step in the presentation design process is to generate fresh, innovative ways of approaching your work.

In other words – take the time to come up with some great ideas.

2. How can SmartStorming help the average person who is not looking to create the next iPhone, but has more basic responsibilities at work?

One of our missions at SmartStorming is to “demystify” the innovative thinking process, and make it relevant to everyone. Lots of people get hung up on the term “innovation.” They think being innovative requires that you come up with something ground-breaking that no one’s ever seen before. But in fact, the most common type of innovation is simply taking something that already exists (a product, service, process, idea, whatever) and making it better. Simple. And anyone can do it, at any time – and in the process, deliver greater value and benefits to their employer, customers, clients, etc.

At SmartStorming we give people the basic understanding, skills and confidence necessary to approach any type of work more innovatively.

3. If someone could take away just a single specific teaching from the SmartStorming training, what would you want it to be?

In terms of a practical tip that will instantly help someone generate bigger, better, more innovative ideas, simply this: never judge your own (or others’) ideas prematurely. When you’re engaged in the process of generating ideas, anything goes. Don’t reject anything; allow even “bad” ideas to survive, for awhile, to see where they might lead. There is a time to judge and eliminate ideas, but later, during the evaluation and selection process. Keep the two processes separate, and your creative problem solving ability will improve exponentially.

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