Preparing Powerful Consulting Presentations

Rules for writing structured slide decks used by top consulting firms

Created by: Piotr Gawlicki
PG Consulting Education Ltd

What Will I Learn?

• You will learn how to structure ideas in your presentations both across each slide and the whole deck
• The flow of your presentations will improve via proper slide sequencing
• You will learn by examples how to use frameworks that help build a presentation starting from loose ideas (SPQA, storyboarding, etc.)
• Your presentations will contain less mistakes and inconsistencies thanks to provided guidelines and checklists
• You will understand how to choose appropriate visualisation methods to support your message
• Your presentations will look much better thanks to taught best practices regarding graphics used by top consulting firms (with examples)

Requirements

• This course has no prerequisites. However, a general understanding of the functioning of (business) organisations and prior experience with creating presentations will be helpful.

Target audience

• Junior analysts and consultants starting their consulting career
• Entrepreneurs starting their adventure with business
• Managers, project managers and project team members who employ slides in their daily work
• Researchers (especially those preparing for conference presentations)
• Students (especially those attending business schools)
• Everyone interested in taking their slide preparation skills to the next level