Storytelling Superpowers for Great Presentations - Live Online Cohort (3 sessions)
IMPORTANT CLASS INFORMATION:
This is a cohort-based class with limited seats available (max 20). The class takes place over 3 live online class meetings that will meet once a week on:
- July 16, 23 and 30, 2025
- Starting at 12:00pm EDT until 2:00pm EDT (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET).
If you can't make all 3 sessions, they will be recorded and the recordings will be shared with class participants.
Stop reading your slides. Start telling great stories. Make an impact.
Learn public speaking and presentation skills to tell great stories, feel more confident and get your point across -- all with individual feedback for each participant.
It's the end of the quarter. You and your team have worked hard, achieved much and learned even more. It's time for your quarterly review with the leadership team. You've put together your slides. You know the data. You get up in front of the executives and start to list out facts, figures and data points. Their eyes glaze over. They're paying attention to their mobiles, not you. You finish with a big request for additional funding. A few folks nod with one saying, "I'll reach out next week,"
What happened? Why did your presentation flop? Why didn't they care?
It wasn't you (so much). It was your story (or lack thereof).
We are often called upon to share our work, and yet most of us have never had a chance to learn how to do this well.
This is a lost opportunity–it wastes time, energy and money. Poor presentations are boring. They create meetings that are too long. They stand in the way of making progress on important business.
Worst of all, people who have important things to share often fail to share them–simply because these important things never get conveyed to the audience.
Storytelling Superpowers for Great Presentations fixes that. Using a mix of lecture, practice, example videos and hands-on presentation practice we introduce a concise set of tools proven to make your next pitch compelling and effective.
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Additional Information
IMPORTANT: This cohort-based class takes place over 3 weeks. Each class is 2 hours long and will take place live, online using Zoom.
Class dates are:
- July 16 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
- July 23 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
- July 30 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
If you can't make all 3 sessions, they will be recorded and the recordings will be shared with class participants.
What will happen in class?
Using a mix of lecture, discussion, in-class exercises, assigned homework and individual feedback, this class will cover the following material:
- Presentation logistics including tools, timing, venue and slide design for non-designers
- The emotion work of presenting
- Drafting stories vs revising them
- How to ask for and get good feedback
Every participant in the class will create and present a 5-minute presentation. We will give each student individual feedback on their presentation and everyone will have the opportunity to iterate their work at least once.
What are people saying about this class?
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What will you learn?
Every participant will leave the class having learned a set of practical, every day tools for creating compelling stories to increase their influence at the office. Specifically, you will walk away with the following skills:
- Understand the basic principles of a “story”
- Know how to structure a presentation
- Understand basic slide design fundamentals
- Understand how and why to add humor into your presentations
- Become a compelling storyteller
- Get your point across clearly
- Resolve issues / move them forward more effectively
- Influence colleagues without authority
- Be more confident in your presentations
Who is this class for?
In short, this class is for everyone who needs to share information in a compelling way. If you have to pitch your boss on a new idea or priority this class is for you. If you have an idea you'd like to get funded, this class will teach you how to be more successful with your pitches.
Every interaction we have with others is a storytelling opportunity. If your goal is to become more influential and successful at your job, take this class.
In the past we've had folks with the following job titles attend:
- Product manager
- Designer
- Human Resources Generalist
- Learning & Development coordinator
- Software engineer
- Business analyst
- Finance professional
That said, we'd love to see you in the course regardless of what you do.
Every participant will work on their own stories and materials relevant to their life or work.
Who are Jeff and Josh?
Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden are world-renowned authors, speakers and entrepreneurs. Together they've written 5 books (Lean UX, Sense & Respond and Who does what by how much? among others) and have spoken on stages all over the world in front of thousands of people.
They spend their time telling stories in front of audience on a daily basis. In addition, they've been teaching collaboration with a customer-centric focus for more than 15 years.