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Boris Hristov, co-founder of 356labs and Present to Succeed | Lyndon Nicholson, three-time agency founder and head of Future Group Two people who've built top agencies around presentations. Lyndon explains why AI is making organizations "more stupid", and why clients who settled for AI slop are now coming back. Boris lifts the lid on Present to Succeed, with behind-the-scenes insights and the Lond...

People often dump everything that's in their head onto slides. Don't. Think about how the audience is going to receive it, what the structure will be. Instead, close the laptop and get everything out of your head somewhere else — paper, dictate, tell AI. Whatever you need. Once it's all out, start to build your deck with just the best bits. You can follow Mark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com...

Contrast checker - Great slides need more than great colours. They need contrast! Use a contrast checker to make sure your text is clear, readable and accessible to everyone. A simple check that can make a big difference to your presentation design. You can follow Emma on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-birdboxdesigns/ Website: http://www.birdboxdesigns.com

If you want to set yourself apart from the rest, make sure you are using smart quotes in all of you communications. Using the correct apostrophes shows you know waht good looks like and most importantly, that you care. Attention to detail is where the magic happens. You can follow Andy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andybundock/ Website: http://andybundock.com

Take a tip from someone with 24M views — Brené Brown. Your message delivers more bang for your buck than your slides. Take the time to craft a story that lands. You can follow PK on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pksteffen Website: PKdigital.net

Claude and Gemini can now copy your deck's style from one file. But can they do the thinking that wins the room? We tore up the schedule for this one. Last episode we broke down Microsoft Copilot for PowerPoint. If you thought the AI presentation wars would settle down, think again. This episode we test how well Claude Slides and Gemini in Google Slides match an existing deck's style, as they make...

Microsoft says Copilot's new brand kit will finally keep every deck on-brand. Here's what we think: Copilot's new Brand Kit and custom skills including interactive slides, promise to fix two of PowerPoint's oldest headaches: decks that never match, and prompting that never quite gets you there. Andy, Emma, Mark and PK share their first impressions and what it means for designers and non-designers....

Two presentation designers, two very different routes in. Courtney Allen built 16x9 from a freelance side hustle into a multi-million dollar agency. Dekishea Gordon stumbled into presentation design on a freelancing platform and realised it was actually a career. In this episode, both guests join us to talk about the profession honestly - how they got in, what they've learned, and where it's going...

PK leads the team through the art and science of storytelling in presentations - from cave paintings to storyboards, from Aristotle's 3 act structure to a simple beginning-middle-end approach. We get into why conflict is your friend, why structure is story, and why the single biggest mistake most presenters make is putting too much in rather than not enough. Timestamps 01:10 The Power of Storytell...

What happens when four presentation designers stop talking about best practice and start telling the truth? This episode. No guests, no agenda, no carefully constructed takeaways. Just PK, Andy, Mark, and Emma answering questions they didn't see coming. From the fastest deck ever built (37 minutes, and yes there's a video) to the chaos of fixing slides mid-event while your team is in the hotel bar...

Fonts. You use them every day, you judge them before you've read a word, and yet most of us have never thought too hard about why they matter. In this episode, we do. We get into the history of fonts (yes, there's a difference between a font and a typeface, and yes, it's mildly pedantic), the psychology of why the wrong font on a serious deck immediately feels off, and how to find the right one wh...

What happens when one of the presentation industry's best designers is also one of its best presenters? We found out. In this episode, we chat with Damon Nofar, Founder and Creative Director of Slides Agency, presentation strategist, and one of those rare people who excels both behind the slides and on the stage. We get into storytelling, AI, audience experience, and what it actually takes to crea...

Next Slide Please | It’s Not Just Storytelling. It’s Chemistry: Present to Succeed Sofia 2026 Episode runtime: ~45 minutes Hosts: Emma Pritchard, Andy Bundock, PK Steffen, Mark Robson,  Episode Summary Emma and Andy spent a day streaming Present to Succeed 2026 live from Sofia, Bulgaria, one of Europe's biggest presentation conferences. The theme was storytelling, but what they brought back was bi...

Everyone's talking about Claude Design. But can it actually design?  Spoiler: it depends who's asking. In this episode, we put Claude Design under the microscope and explore the reality behind the hype. All four hosts give their honest verdict. From blank page syndrome to brand drift, from token costs to data centres in the desert. Along the way, we discuss discuss design systems, tackle what AI i...

This is where it all starts. In this first episode, we introduce the show, the hosts, and one unofficial team member called Dave. Four people who live and breathe presentations - a psychologist, a storyteller, a typography obsessive, and a designer with 20 years of slides under his belt - coming together to help non-designers up their presentation game and designers hate PowerPoint slightly less....