Richard Johnson

You already have the deck. The content is fine, the argument is there, but it looks like it was built in 2005, and you can feel the room lose confidence the moment it goes up.

For a nonprofit, a presentation is rarely just a presentation. It is a grant pitch, a board update, a donor appeal, or a case for support, and it usually has to move someone to give time or money.

People remember how a presentation opens and how it ends far more than anything in the middle.

A slide full of numbers is a slide nobody reads.

Most bad presentations were lost at the outline stage, not the design stage.

Sales reps do not have a slide problem. They have a time problem.

Preparing lessons is the single most common thing teachers use AI for, ahead of worksheets and grading, according to a 2025 Walton Family Foundation and Gallup study of 2,232 US public school teachers.

Most bad slides are not badly designed; they are badly written. A slide crammed with full sentences, or padded with vague phrases, loses the room no matter how good the template looks.

A deck that drifts off-brand looks amateur, even when the content is strong.

Turning a spreadsheet into slides is one of the most tedious jobs in office work: copy a table, paste it, watch the formatting break, rebuild a chart, repeat.

A roadmap slide has to do something a bullet list cannot: show where you are going and when.