Jan is a former strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he served clients from the Amsterdam and London office for almost a decade. Since the early 2000s, Jan has been crafting professional sales and investor presentations in his own boutique presentation design firm. More recently, Jan has founded SlideMagic, an app that provides an alternative to PowerPoint when it comes to creating business presentations. Feel free to give it a try at http://www.slidemagic.com.
Sara is the Sr. Writer at GoReact, the premier video feedback software for teaching skills crazy fast. She has been writing and editing for companies in the tech and financial spaces for over six years and enjoys creating content strategies for professional brands. She has a bachelor's degree in traditional editing from Brigham Young University. When she's not working, Sara can be found traveling and writing novels for young adults.
Florian, based in Barcelona, worked as a consultant and business development manager for almost a decade for KPMG, the global advisory firm. A collaborator of IESE Business School Barcelona and author of four books, Florian now offers transformational communication seminars, keynote speeches and presentation coaching to international brands like Banco Santander, Microsoft or Panasonic. Florian is the co-creator of the world's first public speaking board game Rhetoric – The Public Speaking Game™.
Amy Post is a self-proclaimed PowerPoint wizard and Visualization Consultant at BrightCarbon, an international presentation design agency whose focus is on creating effective sales and training presentations, but also custom eLearning, motion graphics, and infographics. After graduating from University of Pennsylvania in 2014, she now spends most of her days planning her next Disney World vacation and also sharing the joys of PowerPoint with others.
Timo is the go-to-guy for well-designed presentations, digitalised sales content and account based sales and marketing campaigns. His founding idea for Havain Oy was, and still is, to provide a simple, fast and practical solution for companies and individuals that want to get good results from their presentations.
As an expert with broad experience in data collection & analysis Jude understands that presentation of data is like the art of mosaic, kind of story that the viewer must decipher and understand quickly. Summarizing and Big Data seem to be opposites. How is it possible to present so much in such a short slide? Finding the best answer to this question is what I like to do, and presenting the outcome is my passion.
Sandra Zimmer is the author of It’s Your Time to Shine: How to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking, Develop Authentic Presence and Speak from Your Heart and the creator of The Zimmer Method for Authentic Communication. Sandra coaches business professionals to communicate authentically so they feel confident to shine when they share ideas, insights and expertise. Her programs include public speaking, voice, diction & accent reduction as well as leadership presence, gravitas, communication & storytelling. Her clients include leaders from dozens of Fortune 500 companies.
Platform Giant Communication is a communication consultancy that helps business leaders and entrepreneurs deliver their message more effectively. Shane also hosts the popular podcast The Platform Giant Show where he covers topics such as thought leadership, personal branding and content marketing. He speaks regularly on leadership, communication and business. You can find out more about him at ShanePurnell.com.
Sims Wyeth is the president of Sims Wyeth & Co., an executive development firm devoted to the art and science of speaking persuasively. Sims specializes in 1:1 coaching and small group workshops. He believes that while the delivery of a presentation is key, the structure of it is often more important. Sims is also the author of The Essentials of Persuasive Public Speaking.
