Banish your stakeholder's boredom through impactful data presentation and storytelling workshops.
Wow your stakeholders and clients by equipping your team with the effective presentation skills, data visualization, and data storytelling skills they need to succeed with the people in charge.
This is effective data presentation skills training for data practitioners by a data practitioner.
Meet your decision-makers’ needs
Deliver on their desires for data storytelling clarity, simplicity, engagement.
Earn their trust
Become their top strategic advisors or favorite agency and always have a seat at the decision-making table.
Become indispensable
Enjoy greater impact, longer client contract renewals, bigger budgets, lower employee turnover, and recognition for your A-team.
THE PROBLEM
Do you struggle with:
- Clients who complain about confusing, overwhelming, or boring data presentations?
- Decision-makers who aren’t confident taking strategic action from the insights?
- Stakeholders who don’t understand the value of your team’s services and effort?
- Practitioner teams who complain that they just can't get it right with your stakeholders?
THE REASON
That may be because you are managing with a team who:
- Presents complicated and overwhelming piles of charts and slides
- Doesn’t know how to focus on data that matters & prove why it matters
- Can’t explain the data with a compelling and engaging story
- Creates cluttered and confusing presentation slides
- Never learned best practices for data visualization, chart design
- Doesn’t speak as confident, polished, & trustworthy to your audience
TESTIMONIALS
Let these results speak for themselves.
You deserve to manage a team who wins with decision-makers.
Presenting business data stories, ideas, and strategies to stakeholder audiences well requires plugging a multi-disciplinary skills gap. And, you shouldn't be the one plugging it for them.
Leave the training heavy lifting to an experienced professional and recognized subject matter expert who knows how to deliver.
EXPERIENCE
Over the last seven years, my training has served…
THE PROMISE
After a training workshop with Lea, imagine being able to enjoy:
- Your team creating streamlined, appealing, and action-oriented data stories
- More time spent analyzing, less time stressing over presentations
- Agency teams more effectively communicating their value to clients
- Decision-makers praising the clarity of your data presentations
- Clients extending and renewing their agency contracts
- Lower employee turnover costs because of higher team satisfaction
THE LESSON PLAN
A Proven 4-Phase Data Presentation Curriculum
This curriculum is sequentially designed to cover one cornerstone of the data and business presentation process. Each module is available on it's own as a half-day seminar, as well as in combination for the flagship immersive experience, the Inspiring Insight Boot Camp.
As a former analyst of 12 years, I understand the unique challenges involved with presenting analytics data to stakeholders. I’ve helped companies from the smallest agency startups to Fortune 500 megabrands extract and deliver massive value to their decision-makers.
I. Presentation Planning and Content Brainstorming
When you can connect with your audience in a way they understand, and meet their needs, they'll welcome hearing your proposals. You'll gain a robust presentation planning and content creation framework that really works.
Topics covered:
- Audience needs assessment + interview strategies
- How to speak to different stakeholder personality types
- Prevent overwhelming the audience with too much data
- Fundamental and persuasive storytelling mechanics
- Crafting effective recommendations that get acted upon
- A proven influential presentation planning framework
II. Effective Presentation Slide Design and Graphics
By learning to think like a graphic and data designer with clean layout, typography, and imagery techniques, you'll be able to present your information in a clear and compelling way that doesn't visually overwhelm your audience.
Topics covered:
- Gestalt visual principles
- Essential design fundamentals
- Techniques for typeface, and color, emphasis
- Using imagery and graphics
- Animation storytelling techniques
III. Data Visualization and Visual Data Storytelling
My proprietary PICA Protocol Prescription includes the anatomy of a healthy data visualization, choosing the right charts, sequencing data stories over multiple slides, and avoiding the most common data visualization violations.
Topics covered:
- Lea's signature 4-step data storytelling methodology
- The proprietary Chart Detox Formula
- The most common data visualization violations
- Creative animation techniques for complex charts
- Choosing the right chart for your data
- Individual and group practice exercises
IV. Presentation Delivery + Communication Skills
The most compelling data can be lost if the delivery falls flat. Your team will learn essential preparation practices, speech refinement, nerve management techniques, and scripts for navigating challenging audience questions.
Topics covered:
- Professional preparation and rehearsal strategies
- Managing presentation nerves and anxiety
- Confidence practices list positive mindsets and mantras
- Navigating challenging audience questions
- Efficiently creating post-presentation handouts
STREET CREDS
Meet your expert instructor.
Lea Pica is a data analyst turned Data Storytelling Advocate and industry-recognized international speaker who teaches how to present data and inspire action to thousands of data and marketing practitioners worldwide.
Her mission is to transform data-meeting snoozefests into vehicles for change by synthesizing the power of neuroscience, cinematic storytelling, human emotion, and effective communication.
Lea is a seasoned data analytics practitioner and digital marketer with over 13 years of experience building digital marketing and analytics practices for agencies, retailers, publishers, and Fortune 500 brands. She hosts the industry-acclaimed Present Beyond Measure Show podcast and the author of the newly released book Present Beyond Measure.
She has engaged in over a decade of deep self-study and application of Gestalt principles and the works of Garr Reynolds, Nancy Duarte, Stephen Few, Edward Tufte.
She is a frequent headliner at global live and virtual conferences such as Digital Summit, Data Camp, MeasureSummit, CXL Live, DigiMarCon, Marketing Analytics Summit, Virtual Analytics Summit, Digital Analytics Hub, DAA Symposia, and Web Analytics Wednesday.
TESTIMONIALS
Let my satisfied clients' results become yours.
SERVICES
I’ll deliver the presentation and visualization training your team needs exactly how and where they need it to win with your clients.
Data Presentation Keynotes and Seminars
Perfect if you need a data presentation boost with a compelling and engaging speaker for your next company summit or team offsite!
Live and Virtual Team Workshops
Immersive and engaging deep dives into the mechanics of business presentation and visual storytelling. These sessions walk their talk!
Custom Makeovers + Consultation
Get laser-targeted appraisals of your company’s data visualizations and presentations for maximum impact.
THE PACKAGE DEAL
Every data presentation workshop includes:
- Customizeable workbooks, checklists, resource guides, and reading lists
- Live coaching and critique of the participants' own work examples
- A complimentary copy of Lea's book Present Beyond Measure (starting Oct 2023)
- Post-training reference materials with recordings and homework to extend the learning experience
- Optional upgrades with live coaching support calls, office hours, or custom consultations
- Participant feedback survey and post-training results review with leadership
Schedule a Call
Don't waste another minute in boring business data presentations.
Schedule your complimentary Training Strategy session right now and get ready to experience the satisfaction of watching your team nail their next data presentation and thrill your stakeholders.
DUE OUT September 26th!
Pre-Order Present Beyond Measure
A comprehensive approach to design, visualize, and deliver data stories and business presentations that inspire action!
Pre-Order Present Beyond Measure
DUE OUT September 26th!
A comprehensive approach to design, visualize, and deliver data stories and business presentations that inspire action!