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Join TPC for Business Storytelling at ATD Cascadia Annual Conference

Want to learn business storytelling fundamentals in 75 minutes? Join us at the upcoming ATD Cascadia conference on November 7th. Continue reading

How to Use Color to Build Compelling Presentations

Whether you consciously realize it or not, color is a powerful way to associate ideas or products with certain emotions. The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science found that colors influence ... Continue reading

Visual Storytelling: Improve Your Executive Presence and Catapult Your Career

Want to naturally “own the room,” navigate difficult questions, and influence decision-making? The magic happens when you apply storytelling to business communications. Watch this video to learn how ... Continue reading

TPC Wins “Excellence in Learning” Award from Brandon Hall Group

The Presentation Company, which teaches practical visual storytelling and data visualization techniques to teams at the world’s top brands, won Brandon Hall Group’s coveted “Best Result of a Learning ... Continue reading

TPC Wins “Excellence in Leadership Development” Award from Brandon Hall Group

The Presentation Company, which teaches practical business storytelling techniques to teams at the world’s top brands, won Brandon Hall Group’s coveted “Best Advance in Senior Manager Development” ... Continue reading

5 Advantages of Working with a Certified Women-Owned Business (Like TPC)

Many major corporations—like Netflix, Visa, and Proctor & Gamble—are aggressively seeking diversity in who they partner with and hire. Besides the obvious social reasons to do this, there are many ... Continue reading

How Do I Tell a Story in an Email? [VIDEO]

Ever wonder how you can apply storytelling to something as simple as an email? Watch this short video to see a vague, confusing email transformed into a clear, succinct story: Continue reading

We’re Hiring! Senior Project Manager, Workshop Development and Operations

Are you inspired by working with smart, passionate people who are driven by each other’s success? You might be our next hire. We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to partner with our internal ... Continue reading

What We’ve Uncovered: How On-demand Learning Increases Global Team Collaboration

Imagine this…you are in an online storytelling workshop alongside colleagues overseas. You share a sample story of a program you’ve been laboring over. Your Parisian colleague quickly comments on ... Continue reading

5 Ways to Ace Your Next Big Meeting [VIDEO]

Ask nearly any senior leader what their biggest frustrations are and, more often than not, they will answer, “long-winded, unclear communications that pack in too much information and not enough real ... Continue reading

Looking to Increase Collaboration? Go Digital. [VIDEO]

We’ve gone digital. Welcome to our scalable storytelling solution that increases cross-functional collaboration and gives learners the flexibility to access content on their time, on any device. Jump ... Continue reading

5 Tips for Building Learner Engagement through Storytelling

By Melony Bravmann, Chief Learning Officer at The Presentation Company. The human brain is wired to learn. It’s also wired for story. Stories help learners connect with ideas through the power of ... Continue reading

TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: Are Decision-Makers Getting Turned Off Before They Even Hear Your Idea?

When planning any high stakes communication knowing who your audience is absolutely essential. But what happens when you are pitching to a variety of people with widely differing interests? In other ... Continue reading

The Best Kept Secret to Telling A Compelling Data Story [VIDEO]

One of the most common—yet dangerous—mistakes you can make when creating data visualizations is making your audience work hard to understand your key insights. The good news? This one simple ... Continue reading

TPC to Speak at ATD 2019: Business Storytelling: One Size Audience Doesn’t Fit All

We're excited to announce we’ll be speaking at the ATD International conference this year! Watch this short video for a sneak peek at our session, taking place Tuesday, May 21st at 1pm. See you there! Continue reading

Easy Guide to Choosing the Right Presentation Visuals

We live in a visual world. Billboards on the highway, TV commercials, and social media newsfeeds are constantly trying to sell us messages. But these visuals aren’t built merely to be colorful or ... Continue reading

4 Easy Tactics to Get Any Emailed Presentation Read

We don’t always deliver our ideas in person. More often, we leave our proposal, sales pitch, or product update to the mercy of the send button. But – as any great communicator knows – timing and flow ... Continue reading

We're Hiring! Training Coordinator Position

Want to be a part of something exciting? TPC is growing and looking for its next hire. This could be you! Learn more below and APPLY HERE if you're the perfect fit. Continue reading

Boost Your Data Visualizations: Try Thinking “Outside the Chart” [VIDEO]

Data justifies nearly every business decision we made. But too often, our valuable insights get buried among the "noise" of traditional charts and tables. Continue reading

7 Data Visualization Tips That Will Immediately Amplify Your Message

These days, it’s a battle royale trying to hold people’s attention. To make matters worse, we often needlessly clutter our slides with data and obscure our insights with visual debris. To give your ... Continue reading

TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: Even The Financial Sector Can Use Storytelling To Close Deals

The financial services industry – heavy on data and metrics – might not seem like the right place for corporate storytelling. But dry, generic messages of performance history, customer service stats, ... Continue reading

5 Peer Coaching Tips You Can Easily Action

Are you reluctant to give feedback to colleagues? You're not alone. Nearly all of us are tasked with collaborating with peers at some point in our career. Continue reading

Using Icons in PowerPoint? Try These Tips from TPC

Do you use icons in presentations? Icons are a great alternative to photography when it comes to visualizing your ideas. Watch this short video by TPC's to learn more about how to insert icons in ... Continue reading

This One Small Investment Will Save Your Team Hundreds of Hours Per Year

“I didn’t know if I wanted to cry or laugh knowing how many wasted hours I’ve spent designing decks,” is a line your CFO does not want to hear! Unfortunately, whether people admit it or not, this is ... Continue reading

How to Pick the Right Chart for Your Data Story

There are many charts options for displaying your data. So how do you choose the one that is going to make your numbers shine? Better yet, how do you know which chart will tell the most memorable, ... Continue reading

15 Ways Business Storytelling Will Propel Your Career in 2019

It’s 2019 and by now, everyone has heard about the undeniable power of business storytelling as a way to get ideas heard. Beyond helping you humanize and organize your thoughts, storytelling also ... Continue reading

Webinar: Selling Ideas Through Visual Stories

Neuroscience tells us that two powerful tools — storytelling and visuals — capture attention and drive people to action. The best storytellers do this because they remember one important fact: people ... Continue reading

Personal and Business Storytelling are NOT the same

These days, there’s a big push to embrace storytelling in business communications. Companies are hiring acting coaches and improv troupes to help liven up their dry, monotone communications. Kudos to ... Continue reading

TPC Contributes to Training Industry: How to Flex Your Story to Multiple Audiences

It happens to the best of us: Mid-presentation, we suddenly notice something both unnerving and terrifying: vacant, bored, or – heaven forbid – hostile faces in our audience. We might try to talk ... Continue reading

The Key Ingredient to Communicating Your Ideas Successfully

Think back. Do you remember much from the last presentation you attended? Proposal you read? Virtual meeting you dialed into? If not, don’t panic…you’re not alone. Most of us don’t remember a whole ... Continue reading

The Ultimate Guide: Data Visualization vs. Storytelling with Data

We’re addicted to data. It helps us find golden revenue opportunities. It helps us slash project costs. Whatever path we seek or decision we are trying to make, we rely on data to get there. But ... Continue reading

The Key Ingredient to a 23-Million-View TED Talk

Many of us are secret (or not so secret!) procrastinators. This is surely what drew interest in this popular TED talk by Tim Urban. But 23 MILLION views?! Even if many people identify strongly with ... Continue reading

The Top 7 Ways to Investigate Your Audience

One of the most difficult chasms presenters must cross is understanding their audience’s mindset. When you get people in a room (or in front of a screen), you want to make the conversation about ... Continue reading

How to Not FREAK OUT When Your Audience Looks Bored

Your presentation is starting out great. You’ve got highly-visual slides, the technology is functioning, the crowd is paying attention… well wait, they were paying attention. Now you’re noticing – ... Continue reading

The Best Presenters Do THIS with Their Audience

Recently, we explored a key skill in corporate storytelling – how to build a presentation that addresses the needs of multiple stakeholders (rule of thumb: three different stakeholders? Three ... Continue reading

One Huge Presentation Mistake Even Expert Storytellers Make

Taking steps to understand your audience usually puts you on a promising path for a memorable presentation, right? But what if our careful preparation is still not enough? What if we still miss that ... Continue reading

TPC Contributes to Training Industry Magazine: 3 Simple Data Visualization Tricks that Turn Your Numbers into Narratives

Ask any executive what their biggest frustrations are and, invariably, they will answer, “long-winded, unfocused presentations that pack in too much data.” Modern institutions – from major ... Continue reading

The Single Fastest Way to Gain Executive Presence

Executive presence… you’ve either got it or you don’t, right? ...we beg to differ. Whether you are a data guru or a budding manager, anyone can “own the room”, navigate difficult questions, and come ... Continue reading

On-Demand Digital Storytelling Training for Teams

Everyone knows that investing in the right professional skills increases your odds at career advancement. Who doesn’t want that? But for most of us, finding the time for additional training is a ... Continue reading

Purpose, Technology, and Data Drive Talent Development--Three Key Takeaways from ATD ICE 2018

After an exhilarating four days in San Diego at the 2018 Association for Talent Development International Conference and Expo, the TPC team was buzzing. ATD pulled out all the stops for their 75th ... Continue reading

The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Storytelling

You've probably heard that storytelling is all the rage in the business world today. But you might be wondering, "What is corporate storytelling and how do I get started?" Read on to learn Corporate ... Continue reading

Webinar: How to Connect with Executives Through Story | Watch Now

You’ve got minimal time with big decision-makers. They’ve got competing priorities. Want to make your time count? Learn to create a strong, story-filled narrative they’ll easily grasp, remember, and ... Continue reading

How TPC Built a Culture of Authenticity in an Age Clouded by Aesthetics

Since a young age, we were all asked the infamous question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” As a child, your answer was likely a firefighter, princess, astronaut, doctor or Superman. We ... Continue reading

Want to be a Rockstar Corporate Trainer at TPC?

Kevin Campbell is more than a Master Trainer at TPC. He’s a master at generating true behavior change in employees at some of the world’s top brands. In the well-functioning machine that is TPC, ... Continue reading

We’re Hiring! Workshop Facilitators, Corporate Trainers and Executive Coaches

Do you have a passion for helping talented business professionals grow in their roles? Do you have a high-tech background combined with executive coaching experience, and a strong, authentic, ... Continue reading

2018 Calendar of Events

You don’t have to be Steve Jobs to give insightful, powerful, memorable presentations. You just need to improve your visual storytelling skills. TPC partnered with the Association for Talent ... Continue reading

Claiming Our Seat at the Table: One Woman’s Story of Business Empowerment

Featured originally on WebEx.com - Republished with permission. As of January of this year, there are an estimated 11.6 million women-owned businesses just in the United States alone. This is an ... Continue reading

Using the Power of Color in Presentations

So much has been written on the psychology of color and using it in presentations to incite emotion and convey ideas. When expressing ideas visually in a presentation with shapes and graphics, we ... Continue reading

TPC to Speak at ATD International Conference: "Turn Numbers Into Narratives Through Data Visualization"

We live in a data-driven world. But we don’t spend huge amounts of time and money collecting data just for fun. We look for numbers to answer crucial questions and guide us in nearly every decision ... Continue reading

Webinar: Using Data Visualization to Tell Your Story

Looking for simple yet powerful data visualization techniques? We've made it easy. TPC Co-founder and data storytelling expert Janine Kurnoff demonstrates some of her favorite data storytelling ... Continue reading

Podcast: The Power of Storytelling (Featured on Brandon Hall HCMx Radio)

TPC co-founder and storytelling evangelist Janine Kurnoff joins the Brandon Hall Group podcast to discuss the power of storytelling in business and how every single one of us has the ability to ... Continue reading

Halloween is approaching…Beware of the “Frankendeck”!

You’re busy. We know. But before you pull in slides from your boss’s deck or grab those charts from the marketing guy, ask yourself: Am I offering a clear storyline with an agenda, or am I just ... Continue reading

How to Build a Culture of Learners

How did you actually learn to drive a car? Was it the Drivers Ed classroom, or when you actually buckled up, turned on the engine, and pressed the accelerator? We apply this same logic to our ... Continue reading

Calling Out Your Key Data: Part 3 of TPC’s Data Visualization Series

Throwing a bunch of tables and charts into a presentation doesn’t make for great data visualization – just ask your boss. :-) Nobody wants to sit through slide after slide of numbers jammed on ... Continue reading

Write Headlines that Report the News: Part 2 of our Data Visualization Series

We all know that telling a story with our data is what gives it meaning. But sometimes, it's difficult to know how much data to include. We have a simple way to determine what’s worth including…can ... Continue reading

Your Data Needs a Story: Part 1 of our Data Visualization Video Series

Let’s address the elephant in the room: We’ve all witnessed presentations by well-meaning data gatherers -- who offer charts and tables galore -- but fail to distill their numbers into a clear, ... Continue reading

TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: 4 Simple Ways To Make Data Easier To Understand

Are you a data nerd? Do you love ‘mining the numbers’ for deeper meaning and trends? Then you’re in the right place. The amount of data that companies need to process and analyze in order to gain ... Continue reading

5 Tips for Nailing an Executive Presentation [INFOGRAPHIC]

When it comes to presenting to executives, we know this for sure: more data is not necessarily better. Unfortunately, most of us have learned this the hard way. We’ve struggled to make distracted, ... Continue reading

Got Data? Here's How to Give It Meaning [VIDEO]

We spend an incredible amount of time and money collecting data. That’s because data justifies nearly every business decision we make. But too often, we overwhelm customers, prospects ... Continue reading

Webinar: How to Tell Visual Stories Virtually

TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: For High Stakes Email, You Need A Killer Subject Line

For a startup, reaching investors, board members, key partners and business reporters is essential to your success. But most business people get over 100 emails a day — and at least 30% of that is ... Continue reading

Podcast: How to Plan Your Presentations for Effective Results (Featured on "Business of Story")

Ready to directly confront your fears and anxieties about presentations? Good. Because the Presentation Company Founder, Janine Kurnoff, joins the Business of Story Podcast to lay out the ingredients ... Continue reading

This Presentation Hack Will Save Your Team Hundreds of Hours Per Year

TPC Contributes to Forbes.com: 3 Things Your Company Needs To Know About Storytelling

Remember the last time you were stuck in a business presentation with endless bullets, heavy data, and text-filled slides? Last week? Yesterday? Right now? Business meetings are notoriously boring, ... Continue reading

The Common Language of Sales and Marketing? Storytelling.

Ah, sales and marketing. They go together like peas and carrots. Macaroni and cheese. Peanut butter and jelly. First, the talented marketers gather clever insights, data, and case studies to create ... Continue reading

TPC Contributes to Inc.com: Want Your Boss to Love Your Big Idea? Follow This Advice

Maybe you've got a new initiative that needs funding, you're trying to close a deal that will skyrocket Q4 revenues, or you're just trying to keep the boss (or your boss's boss) awake during a ... Continue reading

Fall 2016 Calendar of Events

Looking to improve your storytelling skills? Look no further. TPC will be speaking at SIX online and in-person events over the next few months! Check out the calendar and registration information ... Continue reading

TPC Receives Prestigious Brandon Hall “Excellence in Learning” Award

Corporate Storytelling Workshops Clinched Bronze Prize for “Best Results of a Learning Program” The Presentation Company, which provides visual storytelling training for some of the world’s most ... Continue reading

Brain Science, Emotions and Leadership Training for Everyone: Takeaways from the 2016 ATD International Conference & Expo

I’ve had just over a week to absorb all of the rich and eye-opening knowledge shared by thought leaders at the ATD International Conference and Expo in Denver, and I’m still filled with awe at how ... Continue reading

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