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Ilene Bergelson is an NYC-based, presentation coach who loves adventure and has supported speakers from six out of the seven continents to embrace their adventurous side. Boutique firms, as well as Fortune-500 companies have sought Ilene’s expertise to optimize presentation content, increase confidence and prepare keynote speakers, panel groups and moderators alike to deliver excellence, improve outcomes through facilitated discussion, and enhance interpersonal communication within teams. Upon noticing that many brilliant people undermine their expertise by the way they communicate, Ilene developed EmpowerSpeak™ with the intention of elevating the level of effective and conscious communication in the workplace.
In this conversation, Ilene talks about her participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2024, being held on location in Oxnard, CA this year from October 20 to 23, 2024, and virtually from November 3 to 6, 2024.
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Echo Swinford has been working with PowerPoint since 1997. She is President Emerita of the Presentation Guild, a not-for-profit trade association for the presentation industry which she helped found in 2015. She has been a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000. With co-author Julie Terberg, Echo recently released the definitive guide to PowerPoint template development: Building PowerPoint Templates v2.
In this conversation, Echo talks about her participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2024, being held on location in Oxnard, CA this year from October 20 to 23, 2024, and virtually from November 3 to 6, 2024.
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Lori Chollar is co-founder and CEO of TLC Creative Services, Inc., a design studio focusing on presentations and live events, both in person and virtual. Her multi-faceted design background includes traditional graphic and print design, apparel and tattoo design (the temporary kind!), and a whole lot of presentation, template, and multimedia design. Building from a formal degree in graphic design to a thriving freelance business, her company with husband Troy, has grown into a successful corporate design studio. Lori is passionate about good design and good business. Some of her favorite pastimes include critiquing letter spacing and punctuation on public signage, painting and crafting fun things, and travelling the world whenever she can with Troy.
In this conversation, Lori talks about her participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2024, being held on location in Oxnard, CA this year from October 20 to 23, 2024, and virtually from November 3 to 6, 2024.
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Richard Goring is a Director at BrightCarbon, a presentation and eLearning agency. He enjoys helping people create engaging content and communicate effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points, which is supported by plenty of resources and tips at the BrightCarbon site.
In this conversation, Richard talks about his participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2024, being held on location in Oxnard, CA this year from October 20 to 23, 2024, and virtually from November 3 to 6, 2024.
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Technically, yes, you can create a bar chart in PowerPoint and go through some hoops and workarounds to make it look like a Gantt chart. However, let’s not celebrate yet, because the result would only be a workaround and not something that’s easy to edit or update.
Learn how to create Gantt charts in PowerPoint.
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