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This issue starts with a mystery. You add a guide in PowerPoint, and it won’t move. You didn’t lock it. You didn’t protect it. It just sits there. The hierarchical guide options tutorial solves that one. Then Paul Lukehart arrives with SimpleDim, a CAD add-in that gives PowerPoint the ability to measure real-world distances, which sounds impossible until you try it. Claudyne Wilder has a quieter provocation: your slides are fine, your data is solid, and your audience is still not connecting. A story fixes that faster than another bullet point ever will. And Jerry Weissman returns with Writer’s Block II, because apparently the first one wasn’t enough to unstick everyone.
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Matteo Cassese is a business coach for entrepreneurs and keynote speaker with over twenty years of experience across corporate, startup, and creative worlds. He has worked with Warner Bros., Netflix, Sony, LinkedIn, and Vinted, and spoken on stages like SXSW and Gitex. During seven years at Warner Bros. Pictures, he helped launch more than 140 films. Based in Berlin, he helps founders and executives build businesses on their own terms.
In this conversation, Matteo speaks about his post, Founder’s Journey.
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Tagged as: Audience, Coaching, Interviews, Leadership, Matteo Cassese, Myth, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking, Storytelling
The step-by-step process to get past the proverbial blank page of the previous blog is as applicable to presenters as it is to writers. Another method to break through the mental barricade is to just start talking.
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Tagged as: Content, Creativity, Guest Post, Ideas, Jerry Weissman, Presentation Skills, Storytelling
Paul Lukehart is founder and managing principal of PL Programs LLC, a project consulting firm founded in 2020. His background is in distribution and fulfillment operations, capital project management, and he has authored a book, Practical Floor Supervision on front-line operations leadership. Paul and his family live in Indiana, and in addition to slide decks for client needs, he works on projects like SimpleDim.
In this conversation, Paul discusses SimpleDim, an add-in that lets you work with CAD within PowerPoint.
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Tagged as: Add-in, CAD, Interviews, Paul Lukehart, PowerPoint, SimpleDim
Looking prepared is not the same as being prepared. That gap is what this issue explores. ScriptAssist closes it on camera, giving presenters a way to read their script while holding eye contact, so the audience sees confidence rather than effort. The executive presence article from Suasive argues that this kind of perceived confidence is learnable and that it shapes career outcomes more than most people expect. Our pre-conference conversations with John Polk, Lori Chollar, and Troy Chollar ahead of Presentation Summit 2026 bring the same idea into the room, where how you stand, speak, and connect with an audience often decides whether the message lands.
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