Do They Know How to Make That Matter to the People Who Make Decisions?
Your Team Knows What They're Talking About.Presenting at the Executive Level is practical training for professionals who need to turn deep expertise into something a senior leader can act on quickly.
This two-hour workshop is anchored in a simple, repeatable process: Define. Design. Deliver. Participants learn how to decide what matters, organize the story, build clearer slides and deliver the message.
$4,500
for up to 15 participants | virtual or onsite
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Most People Were Never
Taught How to Do This.
We ask people to present constantly: explain the numbers, walk a client through a recommendation, update senior leadership, pitch an idea, make the case for an investment, share months of work in ten minutes.
And yet most people learned how to build a presentation by opening an old one and copying it.
That's why smart, capable people so often end up with a deck full of accurate information that's still hard to follow.
The problem usually isn't expertise. It's translation.
The presenter understands the subject so well that it becomes hard to see what someone outside that expertise actually needs.
Presenting at the Executive Level teaches them how.
You May Recognize Some of These Presentation Pitfalls:
The presenter takes fifteen minutes to get to a recommendation that could have been stated in two.
The technical expert gives the audience every single detail because it's difficult to know which details matter.
The analyst shows the data but leaves the audience to figure out what the data means.
The salesperson knows the product so well that the client gets buried in information, and doesn’t buy anything.
The deck has 30 data-filled slides because everything felt too important to cut.
Or maybe the presentation is technically fine, but someone more senior still has to spend an hour rewriting it before it can go in front of leadership.
None of those are PowerPoint problems. They're thinking and communication problems that happen to show up in PowerPoint, and they are fixable.
★★★★★
Libby is fun, engaging, and understands how to make sure everyone gets it. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend a few of her training sessions, and even with a public speaking background, I learn something new every time!
—Tania Kadar
This Problem is Common.
It is Also Fixable.
Most professionals have never been given a repeatable process for deciding what belongs in the presentation, what belongs on the slide and what belongs in the conversation. Once they have one, the quality of the work changes quickly.
This is the Work I Do.
My background in management consulting taught me how to turn complicated information into clear presentations for high-stakes conversations. Today, I teach those same decisions to corporate teams and MBA students.
What This Training Covers
Everything in the workshop fits into a simple, repeatable framework your team can use on the next presentation and every one after it: Define. Design. Deliver.
The framework that guides this training:
DEFINE:
Decide What Matters and Organize the Story.
Before we worry about design, we get the message right. We ask:
What does this audience need to know?
What do they already know?
What do you want them to understand, decide or do when you're finished?
And, perhaps most importantly:
What can you leave out?
Participants learn how to curate information rather than simply collect it.
A presentation shouldn't feel like a series of slides that happen to be about the same topic.
We'll work on organizing information so the audience can see where the story is going and why each piece matters.
That includes getting to the point earlier, structuring supporting information and making the recommendation crystal clear.
DESIGN:
Prepare to actually present it.
Good slides are not supposed to contain everything you know.
They're supposed to help the audience understand what you're saying.
We'll look at practical ways to simplify busy slides, write stronger headlines, use hierarchy effectively, balance text and visuals and make the important information obvious.
You do not need to be a designer.
You do need to know what the audience should look at first.
Make the data mean something.
Putting a chart on a slide isn't the same as communicating an insight.
We'll look at how to provide context, highlight the important number or trend and tell the audience what they're supposed to notice.
DELIVER:
Make the slides do their job.
A good presentation is more than a good deck.
Participants learn how to create a talk track that complements the slides rather than narrating them, and how to prepare for questions and discussion.
Because the most important part of the meeting often happens after someone stops sharing their screen.
This is not two hours of me talking at your team.
I don't particularly enjoy sitting through bad corporate training either.
So I don't teach that way.
Participants will look at real examples, make decisions, discuss what works and what doesn't, apply the concepts and see presentations change in front of them.
There will be interaction.
There will be practice.
There will probably be some strong opinions about terrible slides.
The point is not simply to expose people to a set of presentation principles.
The point is to make those principles usable.
What I Hope
Changes Afterward
I don't expect your employees to start obsessing over presentations the way I do.
That would be weird.
I do want them to approach the next one differently.
I want them to stop and ask what the audience actually needs before opening PowerPoint.
I want them to recognize when they're giving someone every piece of information instead of the right information.
I want them to know how to simplify a slide instead of just making the font smaller.
I want them to be able to say:
"The point of this presentation is…"
And then actually build the presentation around that point.
That's what success looks like.
That is Also Why the Package Doesn't End When the Workshop Does.
Participants leave with the workbook, examples and tools, and the team gets a follow-up office hour where people can bring actual work and ask:
"Okay, how do I apply this to mine?"
For organizations that want repeated practice, individual feedback or deeper skill development, I offer expanded half-day, full-day and multi-session programs.
But you do not need one of those to get started.
$4,500
/ up to 15 participants
No surprise curriculum-development fee.
No weeks of meetings before the training.
No 27-question needs assessment.
I'll ask you a handful of useful questions, we'll have a short planning conversation, and I'll take it from there.
What Comes With
the Workshop
The standard Presenting at the Executive Level package is $4,500 for up to 15 participants.
That includes the live two-hour session, participant workbook, digital slide bank, planning tools, 30 days of access to supplemental resources and a 60-minute group office hour after the workshop.
It can be delivered virtually or onsite.
For onsite engagements outside Dallas–Fort Worth, travel expenses are additional.
A Little About MeHi, I'm Libby.
I'm the founder of The Slide Master and a longtime presentation nerd.
My management consulting background gave me a crash course in taking complicated information and turning it into clear presentations for high-stakes conversations.
Later, I realized that most professionals are expected to do exactly that throughout their careers. Almost nobody teaches them how.
So I do.
I've worked with corporate audiences ranging from early-career professionals to senior leaders, and I also teach MBA students.
My training style is practical, highly interactive and built for people who have actual jobs to get back to.
I care much less about whether someone can recite one of my frameworks a month later than whether their next presentation is better because of it.
See Libby in Action
What Clients Say
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★★★★★
Libby is fun, engaging, and understands how to make sure everyone gets it. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend a few of her training sessions, and even with a public speaking background, I learn something new every time!
— Tania Kadar
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★★★★★
Libby’s knowledge and expertise in storytelling took my career to another level. She is extremely engaging and provides fun, current examples and exercises to teach interactively.
— Caleigh T.
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The tools Libby provides throughout these training sessions will elevate your presentations to the next level! Her tips simplify the process, and I can’t wait to incorporate them into my next slide deck.
— Juan Ortega
Frequently
Asked Questions
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Professionals who regularly need to explain information, ideas, analysis or recommendations to other people — client-facing teams, salespeople, analysts, managers, consultants, technical experts, finance teams, project teams and emerging leaders. It's deliberately not tied to one industry or job function.
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Yes. The subject matter may be specific to insurance, finance, engineering, healthcare, technology or operations — but the communication decisions underneath it usually aren't. Before the session, I'll learn enough about your team and their audience to make the conversation relevant. The core curriculum stays consistent.
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No. This isn't Presentation Skills 101. Even very senior professionals struggle with too much detail, unclear recommendations and overloaded slides. The workshop focuses on those business communication decisions, not beginner public-speaking mechanics.
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It's enough to make a meaningful improvement — not enough to turn a room into professional presentation designers. The goal is a repeatable process and a common language: Define. Design. Deliver. The follow-up office hour lets participants bring real work and ask how to apply it.
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No. We won't spend the workshop learning software functions. The focus is on what to say, what to show, how to organize it, and how to make it easier for the audience to understand.
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I lightly tailor the conversation and examples to your team and the kinds of presentations they create. I don't rebuild the curriculum for every client — a fully customized program is available separately.
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The standard workshop uses teaching examples so we can move quickly. The follow-up office hour is a great place to bring real slides. If you want extensive hands-on work with your own presentations during the session, a half-day or full-day workshop is a better fit.
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The standard $4,500 package covers up to 15 participants. Send me your group size and I'll tell you whether this format still works well or recommend a different option.
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That's normal — the workshop is built around communication decisions, not software proficiency. More experienced people tend to sharpen habits they already have; less experienced participants get a process they may never have been given.
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The standard package is $4,500. A 50% deposit reserves your date; the remaining balance is due per the workshop agreement. Onsite travel outside DFW is additional.
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No problem — you don't need to put the workshop on a credit card to book it. Select "My company requires invoicing/procurement" on the booking form and I'll send what your team needs.
$4,500
/ up to 15 participants
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