Course Outline
Executive Communication and Data Storytelling Foundations
- Understanding how executives consume information and make decisions
- Distinguishing between reporting information and presenting a recommendation
- Turning business data into a clear message, takeaway, and action
- Using simple storytelling structures for executive presentations
Framing the Message for Audience and Decision Context
- Identifying the audience, decision context, and presentation objective
- Defining the business question, recommendation, supporting evidence, and next step
- Writing concise slide headlines and executive summaries
- Organizing presentation flow for clarity and faster alignment
Using AI to Plan and Refine Presentation Content
- Using AI tools to draft outlines, headlines, summaries, and talking points
- Prompting AI to improve logic, sequence, and clarity
- Adapting AI-generated content to fit tone, audience, and business context
- Checking AI output for accuracy, confidentiality, and relevance
Designing Clear Executive Slides in PowerPoint
- Working with corporate templates, layouts, fonts, and color standards
- Choosing charts and visuals that match the business message
- Reducing clutter and using emphasis to guide attention
- Improving readability, consistency, and slide-to-slide flow
Building Persuasive Visual Stories
- Connecting data, visuals, and commentary into a coherent narrative
- Highlighting insights, trade-offs, risks, and options clearly
- Using annotations and comparisons to support decisions
- Avoiding common executive presentation mistakes
Presentation Workshop and Feedback
- Reviewing an existing or sample corporate presentation
- Reworking slides with storytelling, design, and AI support
- Presenting revised content and receiving structured feedback
- Creating a practical checklist for use after the course
Requirements
- Basic understanding of business data, charts, and presentation workflows
- Experience using Microsoft PowerPoint or similar presentation software
- Professional experience working with reports, dashboards, or business updates
Audience
- Business professionals who prepare executive presentations
- Managers, team leads, and analysts who present insights to support decision-making
- Marketing, strategy, finance, and operations staff working with branded corporate slides
Testimonials (3)
Doing Exercise
Joe Pang - Lands Department, Hong Kong
Course - QGIS for Geographic Information System
Hands-on examples allowed us to get an actual feel for how the program works. Good explanations and integration of theoretical concepts and how they relate to practical applications.
Ian - Archeoworks Inc.
Course - ArcGIS Fundamentals
I'm looking forward to having a training again with Any, he was really good, I'm just a GIS guy, but Any made everything clear to me, he explained complex processes in layman's terms. Keep it up, thank you.
