Applying the same skills he brings to helping clients create powerful, memorable and effective presentations, David’s positioning as ‘The PowerPoint Exorcist’ stating that ‘deliverance is at hand from PowerPoint presentations that suck’ has been well received by

the market and demonstrates his capability for relevant, creative and memorable positioning where it is called for.

Introducing David Christensen

More than 30 years hands-on experience For more than three decades David’s life has been centered on developing and delivering effective presentations.

Helping create powerful, memorable and effective presentations

Summis:

From his early career with multinational advertising

agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and DDB; through to

Asia Pacific responsibilities with multinationals like

Carlson Wagonlit and American Express and an

extensive multinational business consulting career,

David’s work has revolved around the strategy,

creation, and delivery of presentations of all types.

With experience spanning the academic world to a

wide variety of business categories, and having lived

and worked in more than a dozen different

countries, David has developed and fine tuned his

skills and experience covering the concepts, tools,

strategies and other components that are able to

help build and deliver presentation that are powerful,

memorable, and effective in reaching the objectives

they are designed for.

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The Key to Presentation Success: The Story Line

“There are several important secrets to creating presentations that

are really effective, and even for the simplest project all of these

need to be considered,” says David Christensen. “Often the

greatest single contribution I am able to make when working with

a client presentation is to establish a logical structure and the story

line – and that applies whether the

project is highly content-focused or

conceptual, regardless of the

subject matter.

In fact it is often the routine and dry

content presentations – like regular finance

and business operations reviews for a company – that can

be transformed in this way. You need to see a presentation of any

type like a novel that introduces the characters and story line,

engages and draws the reader onward, captivating them so that

they want to keep reading and get to the point where the story

reaches a climax or resolution.”

David points to an example of a project to manage an hour-long

presentation of a company’s operations to the Board. “Ordinarily

this would have been an excruciating, tedious and boring recital of

facts and figures but instead everything was rolled into a theme

which injected some fun and mystery into the material, and then it

was presented like a mystery story that led up to a climax – and by

that stage the Board were ready to eat from my client’s hand,” he

says.

Leveraging Video Elements Typically - for not a great deal more

time and effort - once your PowerPoint or Keynote presentation has been completed it is possible to create a

video version which can be used on your website, in fixed presentations

and locations, or uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo.

The benefits of this approach are numerous … as well as video being a powerful medium for communication

in its own right, video versions also provide additional quality content that

can be beneficial for lead generation and SEO purposes.

David typically edits an abbreviated selection of the presentation slides,

then adds sound track and transitions with voiceover, subtitles and other

effects also possible to add. Check out the examples shown here!

Mastery of the Written Word From press releases, business plans, blog articles, captions, bullet points, humour and satire, product information and labels, technical writing, travel writing, academic and research papers, brochures, websites, sales presentations, speeches, sermons,

podcasts, training materials, instructions, e-books and more … David Christensen has the experience, versatility and language skills to generate the written word – regardless of the audience. This is most vividly demonstrated on websites such as www.inversionpoint.com and

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The Power of Images

Finding the right image to use as part of

your presentation can make a huge difference to its power,

memorability and success. Images can communicate at an

emotive level and convey meaning far greater than you can

often achieve with words. But remember this will work

against you if you choose unwisely! There are two techniques

relatively easy to implement that can be game-changers. The

first is association – by associating your

message/theme/brand with an image your audience already

strongly identifies with you may be able to establish credibility

and support very quickly. Secondly, consider what the

objective of your presentation is in terms of the audience’s

emotional response or action you

wish them to take. The use of

images aligned to evoke the

desired emotional response can

improve your outcome enormously.

Graphics

“A picture says a thousand words” goes the old

saying and in presentations this is even more the

case. Designing and tailoring graphics that

communicate clearly requires a blend of skills and

experience in graphic design as well as the various

software tools available.

Adobe Photoshop – powerful and versatile

graphics editing software. David also uses similar

applications such as Pixelmator to create graphic

elements.

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and

Microsoft Publisher are also key software tools

employed, while for specific purposes

WebElements, Perfect Photo Suite, Graphic

Design Studio, Snapseed and EazyDraw are all

used

Online | Social Media | eCommerce Increasingly the lines between various media platforms and communication media are blurring, with the result that

specialization or focus in one area of the broad communication and presentation landscape can be a great handicap.

David has practical and hands-on experience across social media with multiple brands along with design, content

generation and management of numerous diverse websites including many operating at the ‘sharp end’ of sales and

transactional based eCommerce. This broad capability and perspective helps ensure advice to clients across multiple

industries is insightful and relevant. Often the answer – or valuable clues – to new questions in one area can be

found in an adjacent field, and increasingly this holistic understanding of the communications process will produce

greater returns on investment than leveraging advisers with narrow, albeit deep, skills and experience

Introducing Infographics

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One form of

presenting

information that

has become

popular recently is

known as the

‘Infographic’. All this

simply means is that it

is a way of presenting

information in a high

level, simplified format

that can be understood very easily and presented as a

single page. The tools and techniques used in

Infographics can also be applied to PowerPoint and

many times the information in a PowerPoint deck can be

extracted and formatted into an Infographic which can

be uploaded to many online locations, expanding the

audience reach for your material. Talk to David about

how Infographic style output can be incorporated into

the way you develop and deliver presentation material

Working With David Christensen

You can engage David on an hourly basis; for an agreed project fee if the scope is clear; on a retainer basis for an agreed period – or another mutually agreed arrangement. Often you as the client won’t be sure what is the best way to go about your task, so an engagement could start with a review of your objectives, recommendation of your optimal strategy and a telephone discussion – which can be accomplished for less than $200. Where low value-added work is required David will work with you to find the lowest cost option and limit his involvement to where he is able to make a valuable contribution. David divides his time between Bangkok, Thailand and Melbourne, Australia but manages clients around the globe without difficulty, so location and time zones are no impediment. Contact David by email in the first instance at mailto:david@powerpointpower.com