Presentation Mastery Workshop Trains Executives to Present Like a Pro

New York, NY – July 27, 2014. Presentation Excellence, a leading provider of presentation training and strategic consulting services for executives, announced that a full-day Presentation Mastery Workshop will take place on September 16, 2014 in New York City.

For over a decade, Presentation Excellence has been helping presenters develop and deliver winning presentations – which close deals, advance careers and save lives. The Presentation Mastery Workshops are designed for CEOs, CFOs and senior executives with sales, marketing, investor, management other leadership responsibilities. Its unique format enables participants to apply what they learn immediately. They work with an important (often upcoming) presentation, learn how to re-write and re-design their first draft to make it more compelling and then practice delivering it so they feel powerful and are persuasive.

The program focuses on five areas affecting presentation effectiveness:

• Substance – What's Important Now versus what's distractive clutter
• Structure – Organizing content to flow to its logical conclusion: motivate action.
• Style – Keeping language simple yet powerful, using attractive supportive visuals, be aligned with the speaker's style and resonate audience's needs.
• Speaker skills –The presenter's goal is project a "leader presence" by being authentic to generate trust, communicating dynamically and connecting with the audience. To "sell your ideas", speakers need to exude competence and confidence, and transfer enthusiasm,
• Setting – Consider the impact of time of day, place, relationship with audience and communication channel (face-to-face vs. virtual presentations) have on the presentation.

"We've had the privilege of working virtually every category of presenter," said Jerry Cahn, Ph.D., J.D., and president of Presentation Excellence, who is leading the workshop. "Our clients range from public company CEOs who take control of multi-billion dollar firms and find their presentations are no longer working, to start-up leaders entered in app, product and company competitions who want to win prizes and get funding. We also work with finance, marketing, sales, and other executives of private firms, public firms and non-profits who want to advance their careers and grow their companies. We teach them our ADAP formula for success and then let them apply it within a group learning context."

Dr. Cahn, an industry veteran, is the former CEO of Brilliant Image, a leading presentation graphics firm that serviced 5000+ of the most demanding Fortune 500 firms, investment bankers, VC and PE firms over a period of 15 years. For several years, he was the president of IAPP, the industry trade association. In addition to continuing to serve such clients through Presentation Excellence, Dr. Cahn provides them with a variety of consulting services through Presentation Excellence Group. It includes leadership and business development services for CEOs and Trusted Advisors from Vistage New York, as well as facilitating leadership advances, improving creativity and innovation, developing accountability systems for cultural alignment and strategic performance, etc.  He teaches at several universities: for CUNY he teaches courses on business strategy/policy and leadership; this summer he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Shanghai on entrepreneurship. Given his depth of experience and expertise, he is a sought-after public speaker, offering keynotes, workshops and webinars. See www.presentationexcellencegroup.com for more details on the companies as well as Dr. Cahn's blog.

To register for the program, visit http://presentationexcellence.com/prestraining.php. The cost of the program is $995; there is an early-bird discount of $200.

For more information, contact: Jerry Cahn at jerrycahn@presentationexcellencegroup.com or 646-290-7664.